Elastic Appoints Paul Appleby President, Worldwide Field Operations

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced the appointment of Paul Appleby as president, worldwide field operations. Appleby was most recently the chief executive officer of Kinetica, and will be responsible for enhancing the customer journey, driving global revenue growth, and developing strategies for addressing the large market opportunity for Elastic. Appleby will report to Elastic founder and Chief Executive Officer Shay Banon. Appleby joins Elastic as the company continues to see increasing demand for its enterprise search, observability and security solutions that are built on a single technology stack under a unified pricing model. Elastic's unified, resource-based pricing enables customers to predictably control costs and fuel rapid adoption across its solutions.