DT - Leadership updates

Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced the appointment of Chandu Thota to its Board of Directors effective July 27, 2026. Mr. Thota brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology platforms at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software at leading technology companies, including Google and Microsoft. "Chandu is a visionary technology leader with deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and large-scale software platforms," said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. "As every enterprise becomes an AI-powered business, Chandu’s experience leading AI product innovation

Combined platform will deliver an open-standards-based telemetry pipeline for logs, metrics, and traces, providing control from the edge through analytics Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bindplane, a company whose open-standards-based telemetry pipeline helps organizations capture and manage data at scale. As cloud‑native architectures and AI‑driven development accelerate, organizations are seeing rapid growth in telemetry – the operational signals that show what's happening inside digital systems. Telemetry pipelines that capture, optimize, and deliver this data in an actionable form hav

Former Salesforce Executive to Drive Global Growth and Brand Leadership as M-Files Deepens Microsoft Partnership M-Files, the leader in AI-native document management, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Debbie Umbach as Chief Marketing Officer. Umbach joins M-Files at a pivotal moment as the company accelerates global expansion, builds on its recognition as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer report for Document Management, and deepens its strategic partnership with Microsoft to deliver a first-of-its-kind unified offering in document management. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.busin

Steve McMahon named next Chief Customer Officer, transitioning from Matthias Dollentz-Scharer Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced that Steve McMahon will join Dynatrace as its new Chief Customer Officer effective May 12, 2025. Matthias Dollentz-Scharer plans to retire from the role after over 10 years with the company and will stay on in an advisory capacity through September 30, 2025. "Dynatrace is redefining observability for the world's largest and most innovative organizations, and Steve's appointment as Chief Customer Officer of Dynatrace will help us continue our deep commitment to delivering significant customer value, adoption, and s

End-to-end observability and security enables the central software provider of leading digital telco Deutsche Telekom to optimize performance and elevate customer satisfaction Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) today announced that Deutsche Telekom IT, the central software provider of leading integrated telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, uses Dynatrace to optimize the performance of its digital services to deliver streamlined and personalized experiences for customers. Deutsche Telekom IT is committed to building an ecosystem of digital services that revolutionize customer interactions. To support this, it developed two critical applications: OneApp, which empowers customers to manage their da

Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leader in end-to-end observability and security, today announced the appointment of Lisa Campbell to its Board of Directors effective September 4, 2024. Campbell brings to the Board over 25 years of experience in leading business and marketing strategy, digital transformation, and revenue growth for global software companies. "We are thrilled to have Lisa join the Dynatrace Board," said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. "Lisa's extensive SaaS experience will be a great addition to our distinguished Board as we deliver end-to-end observability analytics, AI, and automation to enable business transformation of the world's most suc

Expansion of the unified Dynatrace observability and security platform will deliver automated security posture management and compliance monitoring for hybrid and multicloud environments Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Runecast, a provider of AI-powered security and compliance solutions. Adding Runecast to the Dynatrace® platform will extend Dynatrace contextual security protection and analytics with Runecast security posture management. This will enable customers to address the risks of misconfigurations and compliance violations in hybrid and multicloud ecosystems proactively, based on AI-

Former VMware CMO to play a pivotal role in creating, optimizing, and personalizing the company's end-to-end customer experience Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced the appointment of Laura Heisman as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective January 16, 2024. Laura will succeed Mike Maciag, who has served as the Dynatrace CMO for five years. Maciag will stay at Dynatrace in an advisory capacity through April 2024. Heisman brings three decades of experience reaching enterprise, developer, consumer, and corporate audiences. Most recently, she was CMO at VMware, leading the global marketing organization. Before VMware, she was a member of

Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), the leader in unified observability and security, today announced the appointment of Amol Kulkarni to its Board of Directors effective on September 1, 2023. Kulkarni brings over two decades of product and software engineering experience to the Dynatrace Board. He most recently served, until August 2023, as Chief Product and Engineering Officer of CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, and prior to that, as the company's Senior Vice President of Engineering and Products. Before joining CrowdStrike in 2014, Kulkarni held various product and software leadership roles for 14 years at Microsoft. Kulkarni currently serves on the board of directors of JumpCloud, a priva

Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) today announced the appointment of Jim Benson as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective November 15, 2022. Benson has a broad business background with more than 30 years of experience at market-leading technology companies. He will be succeeding Kevin Burns who announced in May 2022 his intention to transition out of Dynatrace by the end of the calendar year. Burns will remain at Dynatrace through an intervening period to ensure a smooth transition. Benson most recently served as executive vice president and CFO at Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), a global cloud services and cybersecurity leader, from 2012 until 2019. Since then, Benson

Experienced executives to drive critical functions as the company continues to grow Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) today announced the appointment of two new executives to its leadership team. As General Counsel, Nicole Fitzpatrick is accountable for all Dynatrace legal and regulatory affairs worldwide and will lead the company's global Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) program. As Chief People Officer, Sue Quackenbush is responsible for driving Dynatrace talent strategies and a workplace culture that continues to foster innovation, customer-centricity, and inclusiveness. "I am delighted to welcome Nicole and Sue to Dynatrace," said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace CEO

Go-to-market executive brings deep experience building fast-growing businesses at industry leaders including VMWare, Bracket Computing, and Cisco Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), today announced the appointment of Ambika Kapur to its board of directors. Ms. Kapur, an experienced go-to-market executive, has served in senior roles at leading technology companies, including VMWare, Bracket Computing, and Cisco. "I am delighted to welcome Ambika to Dynatrace," said Rick McConnell, Dynatrace CEO. "Her experience directing product innovation from inception through market leadership will enable us to further scale our business to help the world's leading organizations tame clou

Former Shazam CEO and Chairman, Andrew Fisher, to become Chairperson of the Board; Andrew succeeds Vania Schlogel who will remain on the board as a director Former Salesforce.com and Docusign executive Kirsten Wolberg and former Google and Dropbox executive Adrienne Gormley appointed to the board in November 2021 Bolstering board gears company for next chapter of growth, comments Epidemic Sound's CEO and founder, Oscar Hoglund Epidemic Sound today announces the appointment of Andrew Fisher, former CEO and Chairman of Shazam, as Chairperson of the Epidemic Sound board with immediate effect. He will succeed Vania Schlogel who will remain on the board as a director. Andrew brings a b

CEO John Van Siclen to retire; Rick McConnell appointed as next CEO of Dynatrace Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) and its Board of Directors today announced that its CEO and Director, John Van Siclen, plans to retire effective December 13, 2021. Rick McConnell, currently President and GM, Security Technology Group at Akamai Technologies, has been appointed as the Company's new CEO and Director, effective December 13, 2021. Mr. Van Siclen will remain as a consultant to the Company through May 31, 2022 to facilitate the CEO transition. John Van Siclen has led Dynatrace since 2008, from a $5 million start-up to a modern cloud observability leader that is now approaching $1 b

Go-to-market executive brings more than two decades of experience driving growth and scaling operations at leading technology companies Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE:DT), today announced the appointment of Steve Rowland to its board of directors. Mr. Rowland, an experienced go-to-market executive, has served in senior roles at leading technology companies, including Okta, Splunk, and DataStax. "I am proud to welcome Steve to the Dynatrace board. His expertise, earned from decades of experience scaling global sales and field operations, will be instrumental as we continue to help digital transformers in the world's leading enterprises accelerate innovation and tame cloud co

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Software intelligence company, Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), today announced it has appointed non-executive, independent board member Jill Ward as chair. Ms. Ward, an experienced board member, business leader, and operating executive, has been a member of the Dynatrace Board of Directors since September 2019. As chair, Ms. Ward will continue to advise Dynatrace on its next phase of growth. “Since joining the Dynatrace board nearly a year and a half ago, Jill has been a tremendous asset to me and my leadership team as well as to the entire board. We are honored to have her serve as our new chair,” said John Van Siclen, CEO of Dynatrace. “As we continue to