Benoit Dageville

 

• Benoit Dageville is president of products at Snowflake, the cloud-based database company he cofounded with Thierry Cruanes in 2012.
• The French-born computer science PhD got his start at Bull Information Systems before spending 16 years at Oracle in California's Bay Area.
• Dageville and Cruanes, both architects at Oracle, teamed up on a startup to store a company's data in the cloud to make it more easily usable.
• In September 2020, the San Mateo-based company went public as the largest software IPO in history.
• Dageville owns just under 3% of Snowflake, which has traded at a market capitalization as high as $111 billion.