Executive Management

  • Tom_Siebel
    Thomas M. Siebel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    Thomas M. Siebel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

    Mr. Siebel is the founder of our company and has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since January 2009, and as our Chief Executive Officer since July 2011. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Siebel founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Siebel Systems, a global CRM software company, from 1993 until it merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006. Mr. Siebel served in various leadership positions with Oracle Corporation from January 1984 to September 1990. Mr. Siebel currently serves as a member of the College of Engineering boards at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2013. Mr. Siebel holds a B.A. in History, an M.B.A., and an M.S. in Computer Science, each from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of four books, including most recently the best-selling Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction (RosettaBooks, 2019).

     

    Honors and Awards

    • Entrepreneur of the Year – EY, 2018
    • Glassdoor Top CEO – 2018
    • Honorary Ph.D. – Politecnico di Torino, 2018
    • Entrepreneur of the Year – EY, 2017
    • Best Places to Work, 100% CEO approval rating – Glassdoor, 2017
    • Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award – San Francisco Business Times, 2016
    • Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member – April 2013
    • #3 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, November 2010
    • Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship
    • Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
    • #5 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, 2009
    • Top 50 Philanthropists – BusinessWeek 2007, 2008
    • Honorary Ph.D. Engineering – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
    • Thomas M. Siebel, Master Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst & Young, 2003
    • Entrepreneurial Company of the Year – Harvard Business School, 2003
    • Hall of Fame – CRM Magazine, 2003
    • CEO of the Year – Industry Week, 2002
    • Top 25 Managers in Global Business – BusinessWeek, 1999 to 2002
    • Top 10 CEOs of 2000 – Investor’s Business Daily, 2000
    • The World’s Most Influential Software Company – BusinessWeek, 2000
    • The Most Influential Company in IT – Intelligent Enterprise, 2000
    • Fastest Growing Technology Company – Deloitte & Touche, 1999
    • Fastest Growing Company in America – Fortune, 1999

    Publications

    • Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction, RosettaBooks, July 2019
    • “Digital Transformation: The Post-Industrial Utility,” Aspenia Magazine, June 2018
    • “Why Digital Transformation Is Now on the CEO’s Shoulders,” McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 1
    • “Thought Leaders Speak Out: Key Trends Driving Change in the Electric Power Industry,” The Edison Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation (IEI), 2015
    • Advanced Smart Grid, introduction, Artech House, 2015
    • “The Internet of Energy,” Electric Perspectives magazine, 2015
    • Written Testimony to the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 2015
    • “Big Data and the Smart Grid: Is Hadoop the Answer?”, Stanford Energy Journal, 2014
    • Taking Care of eBusiness, Doubleday, 2001
    • Cyber Rules, Doubleday, 1999
    • Virtual Selling, Free Press, 1996
  • Edward Y. Abbo
    Edward Y. Abbo Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
    Edward Y. Abbo Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

    Mr. Abbo has served as our Chief Technology Officer since July 2011. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from September 2009 to July 2011 and a member of our board of directors from August 2009 to November 2020.

    Prior to joining us, Mr. Abbo served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems from July 1994 until it merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006, and Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation from January 2006 to July 2009.

    Mr. Abbo holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Houman_B
    Houman Behzadi Executive Vice President
    Houman Behzadi Executive Vice President

    Houman Behzadi serves as the Executive Vice President at C3 AI, contributing to the company's strategic direction and growth. 

    Since 2010, Mr. Behzadi has held various leadership roles across the company including President and Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw key strategic functions, including Products, Engineering, Global Services, Pre-Sales, Alliances, IT, Operations, and Human Resources.

    Prior to joining the company, he held leadership positions at Siebel Systems and Oracle Corporation in Products.

    Mr. Behzadi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  • Hitesh Lath
    Hitesh Lath Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    Hitesh Lath Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

    Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Hitesh Lath served as the C3 AI’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from December 2023 to February 2024.

    Before joining C3 AI, Mr. Lath spent over 22 years with EY and was most recently a partner in their San Jose, CA office. At EY, he served several technology clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to Silicon Valley startups.

    Mr. Lath holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.

  • Merel Witteveen
    Merel Witteveen Senior Vice President, Operations
    Merel Witteveen Senior Vice President, Operations

    Merel Witteveen is Senior Vice President, Operations at C3 AI. Having held multiple roles within the company over her tenure, Ms. Witteveen has deep experience within products, marketing, operations, and alliances. In her previous role at C3 AI as Group Vice President of Alliances, she focused on programs and partnerships to accelerate the evolution of C3 AI as a company that serves hundreds of customers to a company that serves thousands of customers. She led a team that established a strong and growing global partner and system integrator network with companies such as Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and Booz Allen.

    Before C3 AI, Ms. Witteveen was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She was also a member of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team for six years and holds a silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    She holds a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam, an M.S. in Applied Physics from Utrecht University, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.