Experienced SaaS, Product, Customer Success & Customer Experience Executive. Since 1989 Simon has held several international senior management roles in large global organizations including Burton Group PLC, Corporate Services Group PLC, Adaytum, Business Foundation, Hyperion Solutions & Anaplan.

Simon was part of the initial Anaplan founding team that Founders Michael Gould and Guy Haddleton formed in 2009 after emerging from the ‘barn’ with the genesis of what has become the world’s leading Connected Planning cloud that went public in late 2018. Anaplan trades under stock symbol PLAN on the NYSE.

Anaplan is the Connected Planning cloud for Sales, HR, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions. Simon brings over 30 years of experience in Planning, Enterprise Performance Management, SaaS, Business Intelligence & Analytics and was responsible for the Anaplan Community, Master Anaplanners, Centers of Excellence & University Connect programs. In addition, Simon set product vision & strategy as well as helped companies in their Connected Planning journey & evangelizing the need for companies to have a Chief Planning Officer, a much needed role in a new era of planning & decision-making in such a fast-moving business environment.

Prior to Anaplan, Simon was head of Product Marketing & Management for Adaytum, (acquired by Cognos/IBM), and also held roles in Product and Corporate Marketing & Management at Hyperion Solutions, (acquired by Oracle), as well as CEO of Business Foundation.

In 2022, Anaplan was acquired by Thoma Bravo for $10.4bn and went private at which point Simon left and pursued investment & Board opportunities.

Simon has invested in several companies and is an investor and Board member of Strangelove NYC as well as a strategic advisor for various other companies, PE & VC firms.