| Ashutosh Kulkarni |
Ashutosh Kulkarni currently works at Elastic NV, as Chief Executive Officer & Director from 2022, Elastic Pty Ltd., as Chief Executive Officer, and Elasticsearch, Inc., as Chief Executive Officer & Director from 2022. Mr. Kulkarni also formerly worked at Akamai Technologies, Inc., as SVP & GM-Web Security, Web Performance Businesses from 2015 to 2018 and McAfee Corp., as Chief Product Officer & Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2020. Mr. Kulkarni received his graduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin, Masters Business Admin degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and undergraduate degree from the University of Mumbai. |
| Shay Banon |
Shay Banon is the founder. He founded Elastic NV in 2012 and currently holds the title of Director & Chief Technology Officer. He also founded Elasticsearch, Inc. in 2012 and currently holds the title of Chief Technology Officer & Director. Mr. Banon's former job was as a Technology Director at Gigaspaces Technologies, Inc. Mr. Banon completed his undergraduate degree at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. |
| Ken Exner |
Ken Exner is currently the Chief Product Officer at Elastic NV. He completed his undergraduate degree at Haas School of Business. |
| Mark Dodds |
Mark Dodds currently works at Covenant House, as Director and Elastic NV, as Chief Revenue Officer from 2023. Mr. Dodds also formerly worked at American Cancer Society, Inc., as Director, American Heart Association, Inc., as Director, Boys & Girls Clubs, as Director, and Cisco Systems, Inc., as Senior VP-Global Services & Software Sales. Mr. Dodds received his undergraduate degree from Clemson University. |
| Mathew Donoghue |
Mathew Donoghue is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Elastic NV and Elasticsearch, Inc. He was previously the Senior Vice President-Global Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, Inc. He obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Rick Laner |
Rick Laner is currently the Chief Customer Officer at Elastic NV since 2021. Previously, he worked as the Senior Vice President-Services & Support at MuleSoft LLC from 2017 to 2019. He completed his undergraduate degree from Central Queensland University. |
| Joanna Daly |
Ms. Joanna Daly is a Chief Human Resources Officer at Elastic NV. Ms. Daly was previously employed as a Vice President-Total Rewards by International Business Machines Corp. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and an MBA from Syracuse University. |
| Navam Gamitha Welihinda |
Navam Gamitha Welihinda currently works at HashiCorp UK Ltd., as Director and Elastic NV, as Chief Financial & Accounting Officer from 2025. Mr. Welihinda also formerly worked at WYBS, Inc., as Finance Director, Deem, Inc., as Senior Director-Finance, Compose, Inc., as Head-Finance from 2013 to 2016, Sierra Ventures Management LLC, as Associate from 2009 to 2010, Insight Venture Management LLC, as Analyst from 2003 to 2004, American Capital Asset Management LLC, as Associate in 2005, HashiCorp, Inc., as Chief Financial Officer from 2021 to 2024, and Grammarly, Inc., as Chief Financial Officer from 2024 to 2025. Mr. Welihinda received his undergraduate degree in 2003 from Dartmouth College. |
| Jane E. Bone |
Ms. Jane E. Bone is a Chief Accounting Officer & Group Vice President at Elastic NV and a Secretary & Director at Wind River UK Ltd. She is on the Board of Directors at Wind River UK Ltd. Ms. Bone was previously employed as a Senior VP-Finance & Administration by Wind River Systems, Inc., a Principal by Coopers & Lybrand LLP, and a Principal by Deloitte Haskins & Sells (US). She received her undergraduate degree from The University of Hull. |
| Kevin Kluge |
Kevin Kluge is currently the Chairman of the Corrections Officer Retirement Plan and the Senior Vice President-Engineering at Elastic NV. He previously worked as the Engineering Director at Forest Investments, Inc., Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., Vice President-Engineering at Citrix Systems, Inc., Vice President-Engineering at Zimbra, Inc., Vice President-Engineering at Cloud.com, Inc., Senior Software Engineer at Portola Communications, Inc., and Vice President-Engineering at Corvigo,. Inc. Kluge received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. |
| Chetan Puttagunta |
Chetan Puttagunta currently works at Elastic NV, as Chairman from 2022, Scout RFP LLC, as Director from 2015, Elasticsearch, Inc., as Director from 2014, Modern Treasury Corp., as Director from 2019, Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC, as General Partner from 2018, and MuleSoft LLC, as Board Member from 2013. Mr. Puttagunta also formerly worked at Canopy Tax, Inc., as Director, MongoDB, Inc., as Director, SiteTracker, Inc., as Director, H.I.G Capital LLC (Private Equity), as Principal in 2010, NEA Management Co. LLC, as General Partner from 2016 to 2018, Acquia, Inc., as Board Member from 2014 to 2019, and Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc., as Financial Analyst. Mr. Puttagunta received his undergraduate degree in 2007 from Stanford University. |
| Eric Prengel |
Eric Prengel currently works at Elastic NV, as Group Vice President-Finance from 2025. Mr. Prengel received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. |
| Steven Schuurman |
Steven Schuurman is the founder of Elastic NV, which was founded in 2012. He holds the title of Independent Director at Elastic NV. He is also the founder of Elasticsearch, Inc., which was also founded in 2012. He holds the title of Director at Elasticsearch, Inc. Mr. Schuurman is also the founder of SpringSource Global, Inc. Mr. Schuurman's current job is Chairman at GeoPhy BV, starting in 2018. Mr. Schuurman's former jobs include Chief Executive Officer at Trifork A, Director at Trifork BV, and Advisor at Keen Venture Partners LLP. Mr. Schuurman's education includes an undergraduate degree from The Hague University of Applied Sciences. |
