Elastic Nominates Alison Gleeson to Board of Directors
12 November 2019 - 10:30PM
Business Wire
Former Cisco SVP of the Americas brings more
than 20 years of experience leading global go-to-market and partner
ecosystem teams
Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch and
the Elastic Stack, announced that Alison Gleeson has been nominated
to join its Board of Directors. Gleeson is a globally recognized
executive who was previously Senior Vice President of Cisco’s
Americas organization. Gleeson was responsible for nearly 9,000
employees across 35 countries.
“Alison is an experienced leader with a strong growth mindset
across many go-to-market disciplines,” said Shay Banon, founder and
CEO of Elastic. “At Elastic, our search technology is helping
organizations in every segment, across multiple use cases, and
around the globe to solve their critical IT and business
initiatives. Alison’s rich go-to-market experience will be an
invaluable asset as we seek to grow and scale, and to drive
customer and partner success with our products and solutions.”
“In my career, I’ve never seen greater urgency from enterprises
across all industries to transform themselves using data, and
search has become one of the foundational technologies to do just
that,” said Gleeson. “Elastic has become synonymous with search
technology as the need to instantly find relevant information and
insights from large amounts of data has become a necessity for
every enterprise. Elastic has an amazing footprint in the
enterprise — I look forward to helping the company create a lasting
go-to-market strategy focused on deepening and widening its
customer and partner relationships to fuel its future growth.”
In more than 20 years at Cisco, Gleeson focused on a
customer-first mentality, building go-to-market and data-driven
initiatives, and strengthening Cisco’s relationships with top
partners. This includes managing the sales efforts in Canada and
Latin America, as well as segments such as US Commercial, US Public
Sector, and the Global Enterprise Segment which included Cisco’s
top 28 customers.
Gleeson is also a highly-regarded international speaker on the
drivers for digital disruption across industries, the role of
technology in enabling business transformation, and empowering
women in technology. Gleeson maintains a commitment to professional
development and inclusion and diversity in the workplace. In 2018,
she received the Connected World’s “Woman of IoT” award for her
role in advancing the field. In 2017, she received the Diversity
Best Practice’s “Above and Beyond Legacy Award” and the Michigan
Council for Women in Technology’s “Woman of the Year Award” for her
work in advancing women in IT roles. She was previously the Global
Executive Sponsor and Board President for Cisco's Connected Women's
Network, an organization with 7,000 members worldwide. Alison
currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Eli Broad College of
Business at Michigan State University, her alma mater.
Pursuant to Dutch law, Gleeson’s nomination to the Board of
Directors is subject to a shareholder vote, expected to be held at
an extraordinary general shareholder meeting in January 2020. Upon
her election to the Board, Gleeson will also be appointed to serve
as a member of the Company's Compensation Committee.
About Elastic
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic
Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds
self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time
and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use
cases. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with
Elasticians working in countries around the world. Learn more at
elastic.co.
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