Billy joined DataStax as CEO in May 2011 and propelled the company’s growth from sub-$1M in revenue and 25 employees to more than $100 million in revenue and over 500 employees today. He championed the company’s early years as the leading contributor of code and expertise to open source Apache Cassandra. Now, he is leading the company’s enterprise expansion as the world’s premier provider of the always-on, distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid cloud. Billy is on the board of directors of Tableau Software (NYSE:DATA) and is an active contributor to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of cloud databases, data autonomy, hybrid cloud, AI, and distributed workforces and was most recently at The Economist Innovation Summit discussing AI and data trends shaping the future of global business.

Billy’s 25+ years of tech experience span nearly every part of the database industry in roles ranging from database administrator, to book author, to senior executive. Before joining DataStax, Billy spent six years at Quest Software, where his most recent role was VP and GM of the database business unit. Under his leadership, the industry-leading Quest database business grew from supporting traditional relational databases to a portfolio that included tools for cloud, NoSQL, columnar, and Hadoop databases, as well as business intelligence offerings. Prior to Quest, Billy spent a large portion of career as a software engineer, ultimately moving into product management at Embarcadero technologies.

He holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Louisville where he was also a scholarship football player for the Cardinals.

Robert O’Donovan oversees the company’s finance, IT, facilities and investor relations functions. Prior to joining DataStax in February 2017, Robert was chief financial officer for Pivotal Software where he managed all facets of corporate finance and strategy. During his tenure at Pivotal, he led the transition of the company’s business model to a software subscription model, oversaw key compliance initiatives, and helped the company secure over $250MM in Series C financing. Before joining Pivotal, Robert spent over two decades at EMC Corporation where he held numerous senior positions that drove positive outcomes across both Finance and Sales. Robert is a qualified accountant with ACCA (Chartered Association of Certified Accountants) and conducted his studies at the Cork Institute of Technology.

Steve has served as our President since 2016 and is responsible for all Go-to-Market functions. Prior to this role, he served as our Senior Vice President of Field Operations from 2015 to 2016. He has more than 20 years of experience in building unstoppable teams and go-to-market strategies that result in exceptional customer experience.

Prior to DataStax, Steve served from 2012 to 2016 as Senior Vice President of Sales at Apigee, the leader in API Management, where he led the company through hyper growth and a successful IPO, and later acquisition by Google. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Vice President of Field Operations for the Americas and Asia Pacific at Blue Coat Systems, a leader in cyber and network security, which was taken private by Thoma Bravo. He served from 2006 to 2007 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Workbrain Corporation, a SaaS based workforce management solution, which was acquired by Infor Global Solutions. He held various leadership roles from 1998 to 2006 at BMC Software, where his last role was Vice President of Sales. He holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Karl Van den Bergh is responsible for all Marketing functions including Corporate Marketing and Communications, Product Marketing, Demand Generation and International Marketing. Van den Bergh joins DataStax from TIBCO and is an industry veteran with a history of building high-performance teams, products and businesses. As general manager for the TIBCO Analytics cloud business, Van den Bergh was responsible for all product and go-to-market execution that resulted in building the business into the top-selling analytics cloud service on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Van den Bergh was also general manager for cloud and senior vice president of products at Jaspersoft, which was acquired by TIBCO in 2014. Van den Bergh has a history of successful roles, both strategic and operational, in early-stage startups such as Kickfire where he ran marketing and alliances, as well as billion-dollar tech companies like Business Objects where he held progressively senior positions including running the corporate strategy board and acting as general manager for the Information-On-Demand cloud business. Van den Bergh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Trinity College in Dublin and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Imperial College in London and is fluent in three languages.

Martin is responsible for the worldwide software engineering, product development and continued advancement of our integrated enterprise big data platform. He has more than 22 years of experience managing software teams at both small startups and large corporations. During that time, he's brought products to market in a wide variety of areas such as cloud computing, application lifecycle management, database performance analysis, storage management and systems management. Before joining DataStax, he held numerous senior engineering roles, leading the development and go-to-market strategy for enterprise level technology products at Tidal Software, Luminate, EMC and most recently at Electric Cloud. Martin earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of California, Davis.