By mrweb.com
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 12:00:00
Former IBM and Qlik Exec Joins Qualtrics as CTO
October 7 2026
Experience management firm Qualtrics has appointed Mike Potter as CTO, leading platform architecture and engineering.
Qualtrics provides solutions for clients to continually assess and improve the four ‘core experiences’: Customer, Employee, Product and Brand. The firm was acquired by investors in 2023, for around $12.5bn, from its previous owner SAP, and taken private. A year ago it announced the acquisition of research and experience measurement software firm Press Ganey Forsta, for $6.75 billion.
Potter (pictured) brings more than 25 years of software experience, beginning with nine in Product Development roles at Cognos, and then moving to its parent company IBM. Here he spent another four years, latterly as Director of Development Business Intelligence and Cognos Platform. In 2014 he moved to data products firm Qlik as SVP of Global R&D, and in January 2018 was promoted to CTO., a role he held for more than…
