Melissa Di Donato
Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom, currently serving as Chair and CEO of Kyriba.
Career
Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato worked on enterprise resource planning system, SAP R3. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the chief revenue officer of SAP's cloud division.In July 2019, Melissa Di Donato was appointed CEO of SUSE, becoming the first woman to lead the company. Under her leadership, SUSE completed its initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in May 2021, becoming one of Europe’s largest publicly traded open-source software companies. In March 2023, SUSE announced that Di Donato would be stepping down from her role as CEO. During her tenure, SUSE experienced a 60% revenue growth and made strategic acquisitions to strengthen its position in the container management and security markets.
On April 22, 2023 Di Donato was appointed as a non-executive board member to the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) within the UK government.
In September 2023, Di Donato was appointed Chair and CEO of Kyriba.
Di Donato serves as a non-executive director at JPMorgan Chase, is a member of the Supervisory Board of Porsche, board member at Mews and holds advisory roles at Notion Capital.
Philanthropy
Melissa Di Donato is the co-founder of Inner Wings, a foundation dedicated to empowering young girls. She is a trustee of Founders4Schools and the inaugural Technology Group chair of the 30% Club. She also served as a Stemettes Godmother and a mentor to young girls.Di Donato has authored multiple children’s books.