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Ciaran Dynes, chief product officer (CPO), Matillion
What has been your path to power?
I’ve spent all of my career in middleware and integration software. I started out with IONA technologies, a Dublin based software company that IPOd in 1993. The founders had lectured at Trinity College Dublin, where I studied under them.
IONA allowed me to work in lots of different roles, from a PS consultant to an engineer, to SVP of product. I lived in China for 2.5 years building a development team from scratch, which was massively influential on me in terms of understanding different cultures and international commerce. When I returned home I asked to move into product management, which I ended up running for the company over the following years. I then moved to Talend to run both product management and product marketing. We IPOd Talend in 2016 and I became an exec running product in 2018. I moved to Matillion in 2020 and have the role of chief product officer.
What impact has the pandemic had on demand from your clients?
The amount of customer data going through Matillion products has tripled since the start of the pandemic, which isn’t surprising. Nearly 70% of businesses said that COVID-19 accelerated their cloud migration plans. Enterprises across industries, from life sciences to logistics, needed useful data to respond quickly to radical changes. One retailer tracked customer buying habits as they shifted from in-store to online and then back again. A service company was able to right-size their truck fleet and staffing to keep up with restaurant closures. The insight afforded by the right data at the right time helped our customers survive and even thrive during crazy times. One of our key customers needed to shift their commercial waste management business to residential because everyone was working from home. Peets Coffee needed to shift their business away from sit down to pickup, but at the same time retain their customer base.
Of course there has been a greater impact on the way our customers work due to Covid. A lot of projects during the pandemic related to analytics around employee data, from both hiring and time spent in video conferencing.
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