Saugata Saha will replace Mika Capone, who is retiring after eight years in office.
Qlik has appointed Saugata Saha as president and chief executive officer. With this appointment, effective July 31, 2026, Saha will replace Mika Capone, who is retiring after eight years in office.
Based in New York City. Mr. Saha joins from S&P Global, where he most recently served as President and Chief Enterprise Data Officer of S&P Global Market Intelligence. At S&P Global, he led two data businesses, Energy and Market Intelligence, which each experienced periods of significant transformation, accelerated revenue growth, and profit expansion.
Mr. Saha was also the company’s first Chief Enterprise Data Officer, where he was responsible for accelerating AI adoption, increasing productivity, and strengthening internal data interoperability and distribution.
His appointment as Qlik’s CEO comes at an interesting time as the data company seeks to establish a global presence with a mission to help companies turn data into business actions.
In his new role, Mr. Saha is expected to lead Qlik’s next phase of product innovation and commercial growth. Qlik currently serves 30,000 customers worldwide, including more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and is recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Data Integration, Data Quality Enhancing, Analytics and Business Intelligence.
“Qlik has built something rare in the AI era: the ability to turn fragmented data into real outcomes at scale,” said Saha.
For Saha, the defining challenge in enterprise AI is making data trustworthy, connected, and adaptable enough to work in any environment.
“That’s where Qlik is uniquely positioned to help customers move from pilots to real business impact. I look forward to partnering with this talented team and our customers to achieve our mission of putting data to work for AI and putting AI to work for business,” he added.
For Mike Lipps, Chairman of the Qlik Board of Directors and Operating Partner of Thoma Bravo, Saha brings exactly the deep enterprise data and platform experience that Qlik needs to accelerate its next phase of growth.
“I am confident that he will build on the strong foundation that our talented team has built, and I am deeply grateful to Mike Capone for his significant contributions to Qlik over the past eight years,” he said.
“Saha has extensive experience building AI-driven data and intelligence products and platforms that organizations rely on at scale,” added Seth Boro, managing partner at Thoma Bravo.
“He understands what it takes to innovate at scale while supporting enterprise product adoption, which is exactly what Qlik’s next chapter of growth requires. Qlik is at the center of how enterprises manage and act on data, and that role will become increasingly important as agentic AI reshapes the way businesses operate.”
The appointment also comes as Qlik seeks to expand its agent analytics capabilities. In April 2026, Qlik expanded its agent analytics capabilities with the introduction of Qlik Answers, Discovery Agent, and MCP Server with new agents for prediction, automation, and analytics development to support a more complete path from question to action.
