Teradata names Sumeet Arora as chief product officer

Teradata (TDC) Corporation announced that Sumeet Arora, former Chief Development Officer in charge of global engineering and product at data analytics company ThoughtSpot, will be joining Teradata as its Chief Product Officer on April 28, 2025. In this role, Arora will be responsible for defining and executing the strategy and roadmap for Teradata’s evolving product portfolio, while leading the product and engineering teams to ensure maximum innovation, performance, and efficiency. Arora will report to Steve McMillan, Teradata’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Most recently Arora was at ThoughtSpot, an industry leading agentic analytics platform for enterprise data, where he served as Chief Development Officer. Arora led ThoughtSpot’s global engineering, product, and design teams in continuously improving and scaling the company’s AI-powered data analytics platform. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Sumeet served as SVP and GM of Service Provider Networking at Cisco. In this role, he led the Engineering & Product management team for the Service Provider routing portfolio and was responsible for driving profitable market share growth of this multi-billion-dollar business. “We are thrilled to welcome Sumeet Arora as our new Chief Product Officer. Sumeet’s extensive experience in leading engineering and product management for AI-driven analytics, and his proven track record in managing complex product portfolios and building solutions that generate significant revenue, will be invaluable as he oversees our entire product lifecycle,” said Steve McMillan, President and Chief Executive Officer at Teradata. “I am confident that Sumeet’s strategic vision, growth mindset and collaborative leadership will help Teradata continue to foster a culture of innovation as we advance in delivering cutting-edge solutions and Trusted AI at scale to our customers.”