Matt “Kix” Kixmoeller is a product, marketing, and strategy executive with extensive experience building technology companies and bringing enterprise products to market. He is Senior Vice President of Product & Solutions Marketing at Databricks. Previously, he served as CMO at Glean and VP of Product Marketing, Strategy, and Design at Ghost, following more than a decade at Pure Storage, where he joined as employee No. 6 and held leadership roles spanning strategy, marketing, and product management. He helped lead Pure Storage through its 2015 IPO and subsequent growth from startup to a business exceeding $1 billion in revenue, with responsibilities across product development, product marketing, brand, go-to-market strategy, customer engagement, and channel development.

Earlier in his career, Kix served as VP of Enterprise Product Management at Symantec, overseeing a $1 billion-plus product portfolio and global teams across product management and engineering. He also co-founded Centrata, an enterprise IT service management company, and began his career in consulting at Gemini Consulting and business development at Adaptec. His experience spans product strategy, enterprise technology, marketing, corporate strategy, and early-stage company building.