Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk, a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence.
Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public.
He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners.
Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.