Renaissance Leadership is delighted to have partnered with Simon Webster, SVP EMEA Datastax, to help him build out his EMEA leadership team.
Xavier Guerin, RVP Southern
EuropeXavier is a seasoned executive with over 20 years commercial experience across EMEA for both small and large companies. He joins Datastax from MapR Technologies where he spent three years and held the role of VP EMEA Business Development, Alliances & Partners. It was during this period that Xavier gained excellent experience in monetising open source technologies. Prior to this, Xavier was VP Sales EMEA for Quantum, a global provider of data protection and big data management solutions. Earlier in his career, Xavier spent six years as a Senior Director for Isilon Systems (an EMC company), where he was responsible for the implementation and business development of Isilon solutions in Southern Europe and the Middle East.
Xavier has an MBA from the HEC School of Management and a BA in Entrepreneurship from the Institut Supérieur du Commerce in Paris, France.
Martin James, RVP Northern Europe
Martin joins Datastax from Pitney Bowes software where he held the position of Director, Single Customer View & Entity Resolution, EMEA. Martin is a proven executive with experience in establishing and growing European operations for a number of world class organisations including Talend, Sonic Software, Data Synapse and Computer Associates. He has a unique blend of graph technologies gained at Pitney Bowes combined with open source data integration and quality experience acquired during his three year tenure at Talend.
Martin has a BSc (Hons) in Material Science and Engineering from Surrey University.
About Datastax
DataStax is a leading provider of open source database technologies. Built on Apache Cassandra, they provide in-memory computing capabilities, enterprise-level security, fast and powerful built-in analytics and enterprise search combined with expert support. Many of the world’s leading companies rely on DataStax for the data management of their cloud application. This includes the likes of Netflix, Sony, Walmart and UBS. Privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax has raised nearly $200m from a top tier venture capital syndicate including Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Commenting on the appointments, Simon Webster said: “Having worked closely with Renaissance in the past, they were my first choice in helping me to fill two critical senior VP of Sales positions (VP Northern Europe out of Windsor and VP Western Europe out of Paris) as DataStax continue to grow and expand across EMEA. Sebastian and Vania know me well so they were quickly able to draw up a short-list of high calibre candidates that met my brief. We were quickly able to move to the offer stage on the preferred candidates and complete the assignment. Professional, diligent, strong on communication, persuasive and fun to work with, best sum up the team at Renaissance.”
Sebastian Kayll, Founding Partner Renaissance Leadership said: “In the highly competitive world of open source software it is testament to the quality of Datastax and Simon Webster’s leadership that we have been able to acquire two exceptional executives for the organisation. I have no doubt that Xavier and Martin will have a significant impact on the success of Datastax”.
For more information visit www.datastax.com