PagerDuty Appoints Alex Shootman to Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 14, 2026--

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE: PD), a leader in AI-first operations management, today announced the appointment of Alex Shootman to the company's Board of Directors, with an effective date of July 14, 2026.

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Additionally, PagerDuty announced the resignation of Elena Gomez from its Board of Directors to focus on her duties as President and Chief Financial Officer at Toast.

“Alex brings over 25 years of exceptional operating experience to the PagerDuty board,” said John DiLullo, CEO at PagerDuty. “Alex is an ideal addition to the Board at this time based on his expertise building and scaling enterprise SaaS businesses through the most challenging parts of growth. His discipline and experiences are directly relevant as we push deeper into the enterprise market and build lasting value for our customers and shareholders.”

DiLullo continued, “Elena gave nearly eight years to this Board, and PagerDuty is a better company for it. She helped shape PagerDuty from an early-stage pioneer into a leading public enterprise and she leaves us well-positioned for what comes next. Her many contributions will be long-remembered.”

Mr. Shootman is currently the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Alkami Technology, Inc. He brings a stellar pedigree of driving enterprise scale and category creation in the SaaS ecosystem. Previously, Mr. Shootman served as President and CEO of Workfront from 2016 through its successful $1.5 billion acquisition by Adobe in 2020. Prior to that, he was President of Worldwide Field Operations at Apptio during a phase of aggressive global expansion, and President of Eloqua, where he helped pioneer market category creation, guided the company through its 2012 IPO, and oversaw its subsequent $900 million sale to Oracle. He has also held executive leadership roles at IBM and BMC Software.

“PagerDuty sits at the very center of modern enterprise resilience, acting as a critical platform in a world transformed by complex, AI-first operations,” said Shootman. “Throughout my career, I’ve focused on scaling platforms that run mission-critical corporate operations, and I know firsthand how essential real-time availability and automation are to the enterprise. PagerDuty's momentum with its platform presents an incredible opportunity for global growth. I look forward to partnering with John, the Board, and the entire leadership team to help guide the company through its next phase of enterprise market leadership.”

Mr. Shootman's appointment strengthens PagerDuty’s corporate governance and operational oversight as the company accelerates its mission to automate and orchestrate the entire incident management lifecycle at scale.

About PagerDuty Inc.

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE: PD) is the global leader in AI-first digital operations. By automatically detecting, diagnosing, and remediating issues, the PagerDuty Operations Cloud acts as the central control plane for the modern enterprise – orchestrating AI agents and automated workflows with context from over 750 integrations. Trusted by approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100 and nearly half of the Fortune 500, PagerDuty is the industry standard for organizations scaling resilient, autonomous operations. Learn more and try it for free at www.pagerduty.com.

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that automates and orchestrates the entire incident management lifecycle—from detection to resolution, providing resilience at scale. Designed for mission-critical operations, the platform empowers teams to identify and diagnose disruptions in real time, mobilizing the right teams to quickly streamline workflows to solve digital issues before they become incidents. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is essential for delivering flawless, always-on digital experiences that organizations and consumers expect today.

PagerDuty appoints veteran technology leader and Alkami CEO Alex Shootman to the company's Board of Directors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Social Security's looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a proposal Tuesday to grapple with one of the most consequential financial challenges facing the federal government.

The Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE Act, comes on the heels of the latest Social Security Board of Trustees’ annual report, which found that Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year’s projections.

Even with it being clear for years that Social Security was running out of money, Congress has been loath to act. Making changes to the program — and potentially cutting benefits — has long been politically unpopular, and lawmakers have repeatedly kicked Social Security and Medicare’s troubling math to the next generation.

“The longer Congress waits, the more difficult it will be to address the program’s financial shortfall,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of the bill’s authors, said in a statement. “We were elected to solve problems — we owe it to our kids and grandkids to protect and strengthen this critical program.”

Durbin, who is retiring, is joining with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia; independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and outgoing Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina in backing the Social Security legislation, which calls for an “independent, bipartisan advisory committee” that would make recommendations to Congress.

Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Alan Armstrong, R-Okla., signed onto the bill right before its introduction.

The bill is designed to force Congress to confront Social Security’s long-term financing problem by guaranteeing that lawmakers vote on a solvency plan. It culminates in an up-or-down vote on a plan that restores Social Security solvency for at least half a century.

Committees, however, have been here before. That happened as recently as 2024, when House lawmakers undertook an effort with the backing of several in GOP leadership to form a federal debt commission that would include tackling the solvency of Social Security and Medicare.

The effort collapsed when Americans for Tax Reform — led by its president, Grover Norquist — aggressively lobbied against it.

Social Security's looming funding shortfall is mainly the result of lower projected birth rates, reduced immigration and reduced trust fund revenue due to the costs of Republicans’ massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last summer, according to the Board of Trustees' report.

The looming challenge for the programs is a partial funding gap, not a collapse. Even after trust fund depletion, the system will continue issuing benefits, albeit at reduced amounts.

Traditionally, Republicans have been skeptical of endorsing tax increases, while Democrats have been critical of calls to raise the age of Social Security eligibility. In 2022, members of the House Republican Study Committee proposed raising the age at which someone could qualify for Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security benefits were last reformed roughly 40 years ago, when the federal government raised the eligibility age for the program from 65 to 67, based on recommendations from a commission under the leadership of Alan Greenspan.

Still, there are ongoing bipartisan calls to find a way to provide long-term funding to Social Security.

Last month, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling for raising the cap on the Social Security payroll tax.

For 2026, the payroll tax cap, or maximum amount of earnings on which you must pay Social Security tax is $184,500.

Americans for Tax Reform organized a lengthy and aggressive rebuttal with comments from scores of conservatives in opposition.

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)