Billy is responsible for the strategy, growth, and day-to-day operations of DataStax. He has 20 years of experience in the database industry in roles ranging from DBA to senior executive. Prior to DataStax, Billy spent 6 years at Quest Software, a provider of systems management 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 now includes tools for cloud, NoSQL, columnar, and Hadoop databases, as well as business intelligence offerings. Prior to Quest, Billy led product teams for Embarcadero Technologies' database productivity solutions. He serves as a director of Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA). Billy holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Louisville.

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 is responsible for leading worldwide field operations at DataStax. He has more than 20 years of experience building high performance teams and strong go-to-market strategies that result in exceptional customer experience. Prior to DataStax, Steve was Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations at Apigee where he led the company through hyper growth and a successful IPO.

Prior to Apigee, he was Vice President of Field Operations for the Americas and Asia Pacific geographies at Blue Coat Systems and also served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Workbrain Corporation, which was sold to Infor Global Solutions. He also spent eight years at BMC Software, where his last role was Vice President of Sales for a $320m Global Division. Steve also held sales management positions at Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies Corporation.

As Chief Marketing Office, Karl Van den Bergh is responsible for executing the company’s cloud applications strategy. 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.