Melissa Di Donato

Melissa Di Donato is an American-born businesswoman based in the United Kingdom, currently serving as Chair and CEO of Kyriba.

Career Early in her career, Melissa Di Donato worked on enterprise resource planning system, SAP R3. She had various positions at IBM, Salesforce, Oracle and eventually became the chief revenue officer of SAP's cloud division.

In July 2019, Melissa Di Donato was appointed CEO of SUSE, becoming the first woman to lead the company. Under her leadership, SUSE completed its initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in May 2021, becoming one of Europe’s largest publicly traded open-source software companies. In March 2023, SUSE announced that Di Donato would be stepping down from her role as CEO. Reuters reported that emails indicated she had bypassed internal checks on a discounted $1.4 million sale although her lawyers responded that this was "highly misleading".

On April 22, 2023 Di Donato was appointed as a non-executive board member to the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) within the UK government.

In September 2023, Di Donato was appointed Chair and CEO of Kyriba.