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Senior Vice President of Product Marketing

Denny LeCompte

A former university professor, Denny is a passionate advocate for optimizing technologies to solve critical customer problems, leveraging empirical, data-driven approaches.  His thoughtful leadership and disciplined methodologies have guided product management, product marketing, and User Experience (UX) teams to develop creative product strategies that ignited rapid business growth and made customers’ lives easier.

 

In his current role as Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at SolarWinds, Denny leads a global organization responsible for customer research, engagement, and product positioning.  While helping identify new customer needs and opportunities, his team works to educate and inform the market on how SolarWinds IT management software simplifies the process of running complex systems and applications with high availability and reliability.

 

In addition to SolarWinds, Denny held executive leadership roles at leading IT management and security firms, including BMC and AlienVault.  Denny holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Rice University and a B.S. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

The Latest Posts Featuring Denny LeCompte

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated software delivery, enabling faster releases and greater reliability. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot. This article by Kevin Kline explores why closing the observability gap is essential for performance, efficiency, and resilience.

March 27, 2026
Database Podcast
Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
IT pro looks at computer and works
How Organizations Can Use APM Strategies for a Competitive Edge
December 4, 2019
Applications
Nearly every market in today’s business landscape is saturated, making it every organization’s top goal to create products and provide services rivaling competitors. To help ensure success, businesses must provide…
Security Quickfire /Security Threats and Cyber Hygiene — SolarWinds TechPod 005
March 7, 2019
Podcast TechPod
In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, Tech Talks, host Alex Navarro discusses security threats, the importance of practicing good cyber hygiene, and best practices for managing users and their devices…
Seeing IT Differently: Why IT Vendors Must Evolve
February 7, 2019
Network

Many years ago, at Louisiana State University (LSU), I taught the basics of evolution as part of a class on learning and behavior. The concepts behind evolution started, of course, with biologists, but have been adopted by behavioral scientists and now, by technologists. Evolution is best characterized by the notion that species better-adapted to their environment will survive, reproduce, and continue to thrive. Although long removed from the classroom, I still think about this way too much – particularly how it applies to technology and the market. In this context, companies and products that survive and thrive do so because they are a better fit for their existing environments.
A Strong Customer Community Is Critical When Optimizing Innovation
November 13, 2018
Network
Having a strong customer community for feedback and ideation is critical when optimizing innovation. It supports product strategy while removing blinders to product deficiencies and allowing a democratic approach to…
To Create Great Products, Optimization is Just as Important as Innovation
October 1, 2018
Network
I left academia for the so-called real world in the late 90s because nothing seemed more exciting than the tech industry, which, at the time, was turning the world upside-down…