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Mike Burkland
Founder at Open Chat
Alamo, California, United States
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Mike Burkland is Chairman Emeritus at Five9, which he joined as CEO in January 2008 and led through its 2014 IPO. He served as CEO until December 2017, when he transitioned to Chairman following a cancer diagnosis, returned as CEO in November 2022, and became Chairman again in February 2026. Before Five9, he was CEO of several enterprise software and cloud companies and held positions at Oracle and BMC; he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Northern California in 2017 and holds MBA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Who is Mike Burkland?
- Mike Burkland is Chairman Emeritus at Five9, which he joined as CEO in January 2008 and led through its 2014 IPO. He served as CEO until December 2017, when he transitioned to Chairman following a cancer diagnosis, returned as CEO in November 2022, and became Chairman again in February 2026. Before Five9, he was CEO of several enterprise software and cloud companies and held positions at Oracle and BMC; he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Northern California in 2017 and holds MBA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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