Ashutosh (Ash) Kulkarni has been CEO at Elastic since January, 2022. He is an innovation-focused technology and business leader with broad experiences in the areas of Security, Data Analytics, and Infrastructure software. Ash joined Elastic as Chief Product Officer in early 2021, to lead Elastic’s engineering and product teams in their pursuit of creating the industry’s leading search platform, addressing customer needs from Observability, to Security, and Enterprise Search.

Previously, Ash held senior leadership roles in products and engineering at McAfee, Akamai, Informatica, and Sun Microsystems. He holds a BE in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.