Seattle-based customer data startup Amperity has made a major leadership change.
In a blog post Friday, the company announced that Amperity co-founder Kabir Shahani has left the CEO role. Barry Padgett, formerly the company's chief operating officer, is taking over the CEO role.
The company didn't explain why Shahani left Amperity and didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Barry joined Amperity two years ago and was brought into the company specifically to provide operational leadership in the critical growth phase of Amperity," the company said in the blog post. "He is an accomplished executive who embodies the values that are core to our mission, with a wealth of experience building and leading companies in our stage of explosive growth."
Before joining Amperity in 2020, Padgett spent about a year as the chief revenue officer of Stripe, the San Francisco-based payments giant that reached a value of $95 billion last year. Padgett also spent almost 20 years at Concur Technologies. After SAP acquired Concur in 2014, Padgett led SAP's Intelligent Spend Group, Amperity said.
Amperity also announced in the blog post its first chief people officer, Monica Pool Knox. Knox joined Amperity from the New York City-based conversational AI company LivePerson, where she was also the chief people officer. Before LivePerson, Knox spent more than four years at Microsoft. According to Amperity, she was a senior human resources executive for more than 8,000 employees at Microsoft.
Shahani co-founded Amperity in 2016 with Chief Technology Officer Derek Slager. The company helps clients' marketing and analytics departments make better use of customer data. Its clients include Kroger, Patagonia and Alaska Airlines.
Amperity raised a $100 million Series D round in July, putting the company's value at over $1 billion.
"We're going to be hiring like crazy," Shahani told the Business Journal at the time of the Series D round. "We're totally letting it rip on engineering. We're trying to get as many engineers as we can as fast as we can."
