Tableau Software

CEO: Adam Selipsky

Dec. 30, 2016: $42.15

March 31, 2017: $49.55

Change: +17.56%

Business analytics software developer Tableau began the year under new management. On Aug. 22 Tableau named Adam Selipsky as its president and CEO, replacing co-founder and CEO Christian Chabot, who continues as company chairman. Selipsky joined Tableau from Amazon Web Services where he was vice president of marketing, sales and support.

In February Tableau appointed Dan Miller as executive vice president of worldwide field sales, services and support. Miller has more than 30 years of tech sales management experience with Juniper Networks, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems and – most recently – Oracle, where he led the go-to-market sales, strategy and operations for the ISV/OEM and Java businesses.

For all of 2016 Tableau reported revenue of $826.9 million, up 27 percent from $653.6 million in 2015. But the vendor's  loss widened in 2016 to $144.4 million from $83.7 million in 2015.