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Jason Maynard

Chief Executive Officer

Qualtrics


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Jason Maynard’s Biography

Jason Maynard is a US-based technology executive who is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Qualtrics. Qualtrics, the creator of the Experience Management (XM) category, has gathered 25 years of behavioral insights from 18,000 organizations. Jason oversees the company's strategy and operations, expanding Qualtrics' platform capabilities to redefine how organizations use AI-driven XM to generate lifetime customer value. In May 2026, four months after becoming CEO, he helped Qualtrics complete its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta, adding healthcare expertise and anonymized data to Qualtrics' XM platform and creating the largest AI dataset of human experiential context. Under Jason's stewardship, Qualtrics continues to scale AI adoption and accelerate growth, including launching the Qualtrics XM Data & AI Platform.

Before Qualtrics, Jason served as Executive Vice President of Revenue Operations at Oracle from 2022 to 2025, overseeing global sales strategy and operations. He previously held leadership roles at NetSuite, including Head of Global...
Jason Maynard is a US-based technology executive who is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Qualtrics. Qualtrics, the creator of the Experience Management (XM) category, has gathered 25 years of behavioral insights from 18,000 organizations. Jason oversees the company's strategy and operations, expanding Qualtrics' platform capabilities to redefine how organizations use AI-driven XM to generate lifetime customer value. In May 2026, four months after becoming CEO, he helped Qualtrics complete its $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta, adding healthcare expertise and anonymized data to Qualtrics' XM platform and creating the largest AI dataset of human experiential context. Under Jason's stewardship, Qualtrics continues to scale AI adoption and accelerate growth, including launching the Qualtrics XM Data & AI Platform.

Before Qualtrics, Jason served as Executive Vice President of Revenue Operations at Oracle from 2022 to 2025, overseeing global sales strategy and operations. He previously held leadership roles at NetSuite, including Head of Global Field Operations. Jason joined NetSuite in 2015, a year before Oracle's acquisition, and spent seven years leading go-to-market operations across sales, marketing, solutions, partnerships, and developer engagement. Revenue grew nearly fivefold and the customer base grew from 11,000 to over 43,000.

Earlier, Jason spent 15 years as a top-ranked software equity research analyst at Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse, covering enterprise software, cloud and internet firms, and created an On-Demand Index to track the SaaS market.

While pursuing his MBA, Jason co-founded Verix Software, a CRM company acquired by Inference Corporation in 1999. He has since been an angel investor and advisor to tech startups.

He holds an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and a BS from Cal State Sacramento. His career spans 30+ years in software, capital markets, and company building.
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Jason Maynard’s Background

Qualtrics
Chief Executive Officer
Feb 2026 - Present
Qualtrics is an AI-powered XM platform, providing businesses with data to manage customers, products, employees, and business goals.
 
Flume Ventures
Advisor & Executive in Residence
Nov 2025 - Present
Incline Village, NV, USA
Flume Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Incline Village, Nevada, that invests in early-stage technology companies.
 
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Jason Maynard’s Gallery

Current Board Positions

Qualtrics
Board Member
Feb 2026 - Present
 

Previous Advisory Roles

InformationWeek CIO Editorial
Advisory Board Member
2003 - 2014
InformationWeek is a trade publication that covers enterprise IT strategy, software, and digital business trends.
 

Media

Diginomica | Exclusive - New Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard on why ‘experience context’ will make or break agentic AI
Interview
Feb 2026
In his first interview as Qualtrics CEO, Jason discusses how organizational context can help AI systems make more informed decisions.
 
Diginomica | New CEO Jason Maynard Declares the Insight Gap Closed
Mar 2026
Coverage of Jason’s first X4 appearance examines his plans for applying AI and contextual data to business decisions.
 
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Publications

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Qualtrics | The New Experience Gap
Author
Mar 2026
Jason argues that organizations must close the experience gap, the divide between what people expect and what is actually delivered, by leveraging AI systems to shape outcomes in real time, as experiences happen.
 

Speaking Engagements

Qualtrics | X4 2026: The Experience Management Summit
Keynote Speaker
Mar 2026
Seattle, WA, USA
Leaders from Stanford Health and the Las Vegas Raiders join Jason Maynard to discuss leading organizations through economic uncertainty, technological change, and cultural transformation.
 
Domopalooza | Fireside Chat with Jason Maynard, Qualtrics
Fireside Chat Guest
Mar 2026
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
In a conversation with Domo CEO Josh James, enterprise AI, contextual data, computing economics, and the continuing importance of human judgment are the focus of Jason Maynard's discussion.
 

Investments

MuleSoft
Angel Investor and Advisor
MuleSoft provides an integration platform that connects applications, data and systems, enabling organisations to automate processes and create unified digital experiences.
 
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Siperian
Angel Investor and Advisor
Siperian created software that gave organisations a reliable, unified view of essential information dispersed across different business systems.
 
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Jason Maynard’s Education

USC Marshall School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
1995 - 1998
California State University, Sacramento
Bachelor of Science, Business
1989 - 1992