Matthew Calkins has been Appian’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since 1999. Prior to Appian, Mr. Calkins was an executive at MicroStrategy, a global leader in business intelligence software (he currently serves on the MicroStrategy Board of Directors). Mr. Calkins founded Appian with the guiding vision that applying process to make business intelligence actionable, with extreme ease of use and universal access, would drive the business value of BPM.