A former CTO of Yahoo and long-time Silicon Valley veteran is taking over as CEO of big data startup Pepperdata.
Ashfaq Munshi, who worked at Yahoo for a little under a year right before Marissa Mayer became CEO, succeeds Pepperdata co-founder Sean Suchter, who will become the startup’s CTO.
Suchter and Pepperdata co-founder Chad Carson both held management positions at Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) before creating the startup in 2012. At Yahoo, Suchter helped the company’s search business unit successfully use the open-source Hadoop big data framework not just for testing or research projects, but also in production.
