CrateDB Appoints Jeff Olson as New CRO

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CrateDB, the enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors, today announced that Jeff Olson has been appointed as the company's new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), effective immediately.

In his new role, Olson will be responsible for leading the company's revenue across the company's product portfolio. Previously Olson recently served at MongoDB leading GTM for their Edge/Mobile solutions, having joined them when the acquired Realm where he was Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing.

"I am excited to join CrateDB and so impressed with what they built so far. The way they are able to simplify the data architecture for their customers while offering developers a familiar SQL interface for a multi-model distributed database with NoSQL-like performance. The ability of CrateDB to provide native vector store support makes it a natural fit for emerging MLOps paradigm and AI applications that require fast data ingest with high-performance queries that is affordable, scalable and cloud agnostic," said Jeff Olson. "This is an outstanding team and I look forward to working with them to further accelerate the company's growth and solidify its position as a leader in the database market."

Jeff Olson is an experienced professional with over two decades of expertise in the software, technology, data, and open-source industries. He has a proven track record of leading high-performing sales teams.

"We are thrilled to welcome Jeff to our team as our new CRO, his extensive experience in building world class sales teams, combined with his love of emerging companies and technology, make him the ideal candidate to lead our sales efforts and help us achieve our goals," said Lars Färnström, CrateDB CEO.