Deb Murphy

As vice president of finance, Deb is responsible for all the financial, human resource, legal and administrative operations of the company. She brings more than 25 years of operational and financial leadership experience and a track record of success at fast-growing technology companies to ClearSky.

Prior to joining ClearSky, Deb served as vice president of finance of Netezza Corporation where she helped guide and scale the business from a start up to a highly successful public company. She was involved in all aspects of Netezza’s 2007 initial public offering and its sale to IBM ($1.9B) in 2010.  Before Netezza, Deb was corporate controller at Silknet Software where she was a key player in its 1999 initial public offering and acquisition by Kana Software ($4.2B) in 2000.  Deb began her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she earned her CPA. 

Deb received her Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and an Master of Arts from the Graduate School of Professional Accounting at Northeastern University.  She is an avid hiker and, in her spare time, can usually be found in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family, friends and dog.