Melissa Di Donato

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Melissa Di Donato
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OccupationsBusiness executive, software developer
Known forChair & CEO of Kyriba

Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom, currently serving as Chair and CEO of Kyriba. [1]

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Career

Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato worked on enterprise resource planning system, SAP R3. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the chief revenue officer of SAP's cloud division. [2]

In July 2019, Melissa Di Donato was appointed CEO of SUSE, becoming the first woman to lead the company. [3] Under her leadership, SUSE completed its initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in May 2021, [4] becoming one of Europe’s largest publicly traded open-source software companies. In March 2023, SUSE announced that Di Donato would be stepping down from her role as CEO. [5] Reuters reported that emails indicated she had bypassed internal checks on a discounted $1.4 million sale although her lawyers responded that this was "highly misleading". [6]

On April 22, 2023 Di Donato was appointed as a non-executive board member to the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) within the UK government. [7]

In September 2023, Di Donato was appointed Chair and CEO of Kyriba. [8]


References

  1. ↑ "Leadership team - Kyriba". Kyriba. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  2. ↑ Chan, Rosalie. "The CEO of SUSE says the coronavirus crisis may benefit the open source company, especially now that its biggest rival has been 'taken out' by IBM". Business Insider.
  3. ↑ "Blazing a trail in a tech world where 'not many CEOs look like me'". The Times. 2022-10-28. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  4. ↑ "Software company SUSE holds own in Frankfurt debut". Financial Post. 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  5. ↑ "SUSE changes hats: new CEO to lead accelerated growth". ERP Today. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  6. ↑ Spezzati, Stefania; Strohecker, Karin (30 November 2023). "Exclusive: How SUSE deviated from its internal controls while warning about sales risk". Reuters. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  7. ↑ "The stars align for science and tech as non-execs are appointed to the DSIT Start-Up Board". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  8. ↑ "Kyriba Appoints Visionary Leader Melissa Di Donato as New Chair and CEO". Kyriba. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
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