Elastic Strengthens APAC Leadership Team to Accelerate Market Expansion

Elastic, the organisation behind Elasticsearch, has unveiled a series of key senior leadership appointments across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) in a bid to bolster regional leadership and accelerate market expansion. The company is known for enabling businesses to improve their outcomes by making the most of both structured and unstructured data, offering effective security of private information, and providing infrastructure optimisation.

The technology firm, Elastic, has significantly strengthened its Asia-Pacific leadership team through its recruitment success. The incoming individuals' collective experience within the technology sector will be pivotal in building formidable, customer-centric teams, enhancing service for the region's current customers and brands. The new leaders soon to take the reins are Andrew Habgood, Vice President, Channels and Alliances, Asia Pacific and Japan; Chris Walker, Vice President, Solutions Architecture, Asia Pacific and Japan; Gavin Jones, Area Vice President, Australia and New Zealand; Jaebum Im, Area Vice President, Korea and Ravi Rajendran, Area Vice President, Southeast Asia.

Expressing his excitement about the new leadership team, Barrie Sheers, Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan at Elastic, highlighted their essential role in supporting customers' adaptation and thriving amidst rapid technological evolution. The focus is driving AI-powered Search, Observability, and Security across Asia Pacific, he says. "I'm excited to welcome such outstanding leaders to Elastic as we continue helping customers to achieve better business outcomes by securing and protecting private information more effectively, and optimising their infrastructure", he adds.

Elastic's new leadership team brings a wealth of prior experience with Habgood, previously Vice President, Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat, set to focus on fostering a trusted partner ecosystem throughout Japan and APJ. Walker, formerly Vice President of Sales Engineering, EMEA, at Cisco AppDynamics, will aim to expand sales penetration, new business opportunities, and innovation using his cross-regional track record. Meanwhile, Jones follows nine years at Salesforce and a role as the Country Manager (Area Vice President) for Tableau Software where he concentrated on vision & value-based selling model.

Korean operations will now be led by Jaebum Im, previously General Manager, Korea, at Cloudera, and known for his expertise in business development at AWS for the enterprise and industry sectors. Ravi Rajendran, Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan of Cohesity, will bring more than 30 years of rich industry experience along with extensive expertise in business alliances, storage solutions, managed services, cloud, and enterprise software to his position as the Area Vice President of Elastic, Southeast Asia.

Elastic, used by over 50% of Fortune 500 companies, is renowned for its search-powered solutions that ensure necessary answers are at the fingertips of users in real-time, enabling them to fully leverage their data, at scale. The company's AI-powered solutions offer enterprise security, observability and search functionalities.