Ash Kulkarni is CEO of Elastic N.V. since January 2022 and previously served as Chief Product Officer from January 2021 to January 2022. Prior to joining Elastic, Ash served as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Enterprise Business Group, at McAfee, a digital provider of cyber security services. Prior to joining McAfee, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network, cybersecurity and cloud service company, in the Web Performance, Web Security and Web Experience divisions. Ash also previously held various senior leadership, product management, product marketing and engineering roles at Akamai Technologies, Informatica and Sun Microsystems.