Matthew W Calkins has sold APPN and made no open-market buys since Nov 2017

Matt Calkins is the founder, CEO, president, and chairman of the board of Appian Corporation, where he is also a significant shareholder and corporate insider.( He co-founded Appian in 1999 after leaving MicroStrategy and has led the company from a basement startup into a publicly traded leader in low-code and AI-enabled automation, achieving what has been described as the most successful software IPO of 2017 with only about $10 million of outside capital.(

A California native, Calkins graduated as the top Economics major in his class at Dartmouth College in 1994.( He began his career at business software vendor MicroStrategy, rising to director of its Enterprise Product Group before departing to launch Appian at age 26.( In addition to his executive role, he has served on boards and leadership councils including the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Sorensen Institute, and the Virginia Public Access Project.( Outside of business, he is known as the author of several award‑winning board games and a frequent top finisher at the World Boardgaming Championships.(

Written by Perplexity from public sources.