Security News > 2021 > January > Ashutosh Kulkarni joins Elastic as chief product officer

Elastic announced the appointment of Ashutosh Kulkarni as chief product officer.

Kulkarni will be responsible for leading engineering and product management, with a focus on enhancing the Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions and delivering a best-in-class cloud service to Elastic customers.

Kulkarni joins as the first Elastic CPO, rounding out the company's executive team following the recent appointments of Sally Jenkins as chief marketing officer and Paul Appleby as president, worldwide field operations.

Kulkarni's deep experience running multiproduct engineering organizations and working cross-functionally with business teams will enable Elastic to continue its customer-focused innovations across products and solutions, and to rapidly scale its Elastic Cloud offering, helping customers to derive actionable insights from data.

"I'm pleased to welcome Ash to Elastic as our first CPO. He joins as the opportunity to grow our platform and solutions has expanded exponentially and we're leveraging that momentum to build impactful products that support our community of users," said Shay Banon, founder and chief executive officer, Elastic.

"I've seen first-hand the power of Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack and I am convinced of the versatility and immense potential of the platform in helping customers derive insights from their data," said Ash Kulkarni, chief product officer, Elastic.

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