Flexera Announces Chris Andersen as Chief Financial Officer to Advance Strategic Growth, AI and Data-Driven Innovation
ITASCA, Ill., June 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Flexera, the global leader in technology spend and risk management, today announced the appointment of Chris Andersen as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Andersen will lead the global finance organization for Flexera and its Revenera division, playing a pivotal role in scaling the company’s long-term growth and innovation agenda—anchored in platform-driven insights, artificial intelligence (AI), and deep data intelligence.
Andersen brings over 25 years of financial leadership experience in enterprise software, with a proven track record of driving operational scale, executing strategic capital plans and leading transformative initiatives in high-growth environments. Most recently, he served as CFO of Acquia, where he guided the company to sustained profitability, oversaw multiple successful acquisitions and supported Vista Equity Partners’ majority acquisition in 2019.
“Chris is an outcome-oriented finance leader with a sharp eye for unlocking value at the intersection of technology, data and operational excellence,” said Jim Ryan, CEO of Flexera. “His experience scaling modern software companies—and integrating advanced analytics and automation into financial and strategic planning—makes him uniquely equipped to support our expansion across FinOps, ITAM, SaaS Management and our rapidly evolving AI-powered platform.”
Prior to Acquia, Andersen held senior financial roles at Akamai Technologies, Progress Software and Novell. He currently services on the Bain Capital Ventures CFO Advisory Board, where he contributes to shaping the next wave of finance leadership in the software sector.
“Flexera is uniquely positioned at the convergence of IT asset intelligence, cost optimization and AI-driven decision-making,” said Andersen. “I’m excited to join at this moment of inflection—helping to scale a category-defining platform that empowers enterprises to harness their technology data, automate control, and drive smarter outcomes.”
Andersen’s appointment reflects Flexera’s focus on expanding its executive bench to support the company’s innovation in FinOps, ITAM and SaaS Management—where AI, automation and actionable technology insights are central to our customer value.
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About Flexera
Flexera helps organizations understand and maximize the value of their technology, saving billions of dollars in wasted spend. Powered by the Flexera Technology Intelligence Platform, our award-winning IT asset management, FinOps and SaaS management solutions provide comprehensive visibility and actionable insights on an organization’s entire IT ecosystem. This intelligence enables IT, finance, procurement, FinOps and cloud teams to address skyrocketing costs, optimize spend, mitigate risk and identify opportunities to create positive business outcomes. More than 50,000 global organizations rely on Flexera and its Technopedia reference library, the largest repository of technology asset data. Learn more at flexera.com.
About Revenera
Revenera helps product executives build better products, accelerate time to value and monetize what matters. Revenera's leading solutions help software and technology companies drive top line revenue with modern software monetization, understand usage and compliance with software usage analytics, empower the use of open source with software composition analysis and deliver an excellent user experience—for embedded, on-premises, cloud and SaaS products. To learn more, visit www.revenera.com.
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Ciri Haugh
Flexera
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Chris Andersen
Chris Andersen, CFO of Flexera
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