Darktrace plc announced the appointments of Jill Popelka and Paula Hansen as independent Non-Executive Directors with effect from 1 January, 2024.Jill was most recently Head of Enterprise Services at Snap Inc. Prior to this, she spent more than a decade at SAP where she served as President of SAP SuccessFactors, a cloud-based human capital management software provider. Under her leadership, SAP SuccessFactors grew to serve more than 7,000 customers, with 120 million users worldwide and Jill oversaw the launch of a number of successful new software products, including SAP Work Zone for HR. Paula is currently President and Chief Revenue Officer at Alteryx Inc., the leading analytics cloud platform, where she is responsible for the entire customer journey, including sales, pre-sales, renewals, partners and alliances, marketing and customer success.

Paula has helped scale the business from c.$530 million in revenue in 2021 to over $900 million in 2023. Prior to this, Paula was Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Customer Experience where she led Product Sales, Presales, Channel, Go-to-Market, Operations, and Customer Success in support of the company's 10,000+ Customer Experience customers. Paula spent 19 years at Cisco which she left as Vice President of Global .