Frank Slootman is the Chairman and former CEO of Snowflake Inc., one of the most successful enterprise software companies of the modern era, and is widely recognised as one of the most effective operational leaders in the technology industry. With more than four decades of experience in enterprise software, he has built a track record of taking high-potential companies through periods of rapid growth into successful public offerings, with Data Domain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake all reaching landmark scale under his leadership.

His earlier career includes positions as Chairman and CEO of ServiceNow, Executive Vice President and President at EMC, and President and CEO of Data Domain. That combination of growth-stage and large-enterprise experience underpins his teaching, which consistently focuses on the operational discipline, talent decisions and pace of execution that distinguish companies that scale from those that stall. He is known for his direct, pragmatic style and his willingness to challenge organisational comfort in pursuit of meaningful results.

Slootman is the author of Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity, published by Wiley. The book has become a key reference for technology executives and senior leadership teams operating in high-growth contexts, and is part of the ExpertEdge book to course catalogue, transformed into structured video lessons, modular reading and assessments designed for enterprise LMS deployment.

His current work centres on operational leadership in cloud computing, enterprise software and data infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the talent and execution practices that determine whether organisations capture market opportunity. For L&D leaders running senior leadership development programmes, his ExpertEdge title offers the kind of operationally grounded content that senior audiences engage with, the topic explored in our analysis of the B2B learning content stack for senior populations.