Elastic N.V. announced the appointment of Mark Dodds as chief revenue officer, effective immediately. Reporting to Elastic CEO Ash Kulkarni, Dodds will be responsible for driving all aspects of the company's revenue growth, building on its ongoing success as the leading search analytics platform. Dodds brings extensive global sales leadership experience to the role, gained over 23 years at Cisco, most recently as senior vice president of Global Services & Software Sales, where he helped lead the acceleration of Cisco?s transformation to recurring revenue.

He will be responsible for Elastic?s global go-to-market functions, including global sales, customer success, solutions architecture, ecosystem and partnerships, and sales operations.