Leadership
Meet Our Executive Team
Cullen Childress
Interim Chief Executive Officer
Cullen Childress is our Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at SolarWinds. Childress has deep knowledge and experience founding software startups, as well as leading innovative and successful software product groups at scale. Prior to SolarWinds, he was the Head of Product at Atlassian and Global VP of Product Management at Groupon. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and received his MBA, both from The University of Texas at Austin.
Sam Monti
Chief Financial Officer
Sam Monti is our Chief Financial Officer at SolarWinds. Monti brings more than three decades of finance and operational leadership across public and private software companies, including prior tenures as CEO, COO, and CFO. He previously served as EVP & CFO of Epicor Software, where he architected the value creation plan that tripled ARR growth and drove more than $3.5 billion of enterprise value accretion across nine acquisitions in ten quarters. As COO of Mitratech, he originated the monetization initiative that catalyzed two exits in under five years. He has partnered with sponsors including Vista Equity Partners, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, TA Associates, and Hg,
Monti holds a B.S. in Accounting from Miami University (Ohio) and an M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Krishna Sai
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Krishna Sai is our Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, leading our engineering, technology, and architecture teams at SolarWinds. He is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience scaling global engineering teams and building winning products across multiple industries. Sai has held leadership roles at Atlassian, Groupon, and Polycom, co-founded two technology companies, and holds several patents.
Andre Cuenin
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer
Andre Cuenin serves as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for SolarWinds, overseeing all aspects of revenue generation relating to the company’s world-class observability, database, and service management solutions. Cuenin brings over 20 years of experience driving revenue growth strategies at some of the world’s largest and most respected technology companies, including Veracode, Rapid7, Cherwell Software, Stratavia, and CA.
He holds a bachelor of computer science from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland and received his MBA from Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
David Hanrahan
Senior Vice President, People Success
David Hanrahan serves as our Senior Vice President of People Success, overseeing all aspects of people strategy for SolarWinds. His career has spanned 20+ years in building strong HR teams and facilitating high-performing cultures at leading companies such as Eventbrite, Niantic, Zendesk, and Twitter. He holds a BA from the University of Arizona and a Master’s in HR and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois.
Becky Melton
Group Vice President, General Counsel
Becky Melton serves as General Counsel and Group Vice President of Legal at SolarWinds, where she provides senior legal leadership, oversees enterprise-wide legal strategy, and supports the company’s global growth initiatives. She brings extensive expertise in corporate governance, commercial transactions, employment law, and regulatory compliance.
Since joining SolarWinds in 2021, Melton has held several key leadership roles, including Vice President of Legal, Associate General Counsel, and Senior Director of Employment Law. Before joining SolarWinds, she served as Employment Law Director at Freescale and Associate and Senior Associate at Fulbright & Jaworski, now Norton Rose Fulbright. She was also previously an Assistant Dean at The University of Texas School of Law.
Melton earned her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and received her B.A. from Wellesley College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture and actively mentors emerging legal talent, bringing a people-first approach to her leadership. Outside of work, she invests in professional networks and contributes to knowledge-sharing within the legal community.
David Ramsey
Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer
David Ramsey is the GVP and Chief Information Officer at SolarWinds, where he leads the company’s global IT strategy, operations, security, data, GTM Tech and enterprise applications teams. He partners closely with business and security leaders to modernize core platforms, strengthen cybersecurity posture, and drive data-informed decision making. David is focused on restructuring IT for greater agility and accelerating responsible AI adoption across the organization.