Veteran enterprise leaders join across APJ, public sector, financial services, solutions architecture, and revenue operations as the company scales its global organization

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ClickHouse, a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced a significant expansion of its global go-to-market (GTM) leadership team, headlined by the appointment of Ed Lenta as Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). The additions build on the momentum established last year with the appointment of Kevin Egan as Chief Revenue Officer, and reflect ClickHouse's strategic investment in scaling its global organization to meet surging customer demand.

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Lenta joins ClickHouse to lead the company's go-to-market efforts across the APJ region. He brings deep experience scaling cloud and data platform businesses across the region, most recently as General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan at Databricks, where he managed operations across more than twenty countries and led customer-facing teams serving organizations from startups to large enterprises and government. Earlier in his career, he helped build Amazon Web Services and VMware from early-stage companies into major platform providers in APJ. Based in Singapore, Lenta will be responsible for accelerating the adoption and expansion of ClickHouse Cloud and the open-source database in the region, empowering enterprises and public sector agencies to solve their growing data challenges.

"ClickHouse is emerging as the foundational data infrastructure for the AI era, and the strategic opportunity across Asia Pacific and Japan is enormous," said Lenta. "As agentic workloads scale, enterprises are rethinking their data architecture around both speed and efficiency, and ClickHouse outperforms traditional data warehouses by orders of magnitude on critical cost-performance metrics – that unique combination is what makes this technology so category-defining. I'm excited to build the teams and partnerships that will help organizations across the region unlock the full power of real-time analytics at scale."

Lenta's appointment in APJ is complemented by the recent hire of Takeshi Kaneko as Country Manager of ClickHouse Japan. Kaneko brings more than two decades of leadership in the Japanese technology market, including senior executive roles at Nutanix, where he served as President of Nutanix Japan, as well as leadership positions at Red Hat and Microsoft Japan.

The company also announced a series of additional GTM leadership appointments that strengthen its global revenue organization:

Billy Schoeffel, Vice President, Financial Services, joins after more than six years leading global financial services sales at Snowflake, with prior senior sales leadership roles at ServiceNow and across the enterprise software industry.

Kenneth Melero, Vice President, Public Sector, brings more than 30 years of experience across U.S. federal, state and local government, education, and worldwide public sector environments. He joins ClickHouse from Chainguard, where he led U.S. public sector sales, and previously served as a Regional Vice President at Elastic.

Maged Shehata, Vice President, Global Solutions Architecture, brings more than 20 years of solution engineering experience in the data and AI space. Most recently at Snowflake, Shehata led solution engineering teams across retail and consumer goods, financial services, and healthcare, bringing expertise spanning data integration, data governance, real-time analytics, and broader enterprise data platforms.

Andrew Straus, Vice President, Global Revenue Strategy and Operations, brings two decades of go-to-market and operating leadership across cloud infrastructure and enterprise software, spanning senior revenue operations and GTM strategy roles at Snowflake, Kong, and HPE.

"As organizations race to modernize their data infrastructure for the demands of agentic AI, we are investing decisively in the world-class team needed to serve them globally," said Kevin Egan, Chief Revenue Officer at ClickHouse. "Ed's leadership in APJ, combined with the strength and breadth of talent joining across the public sector, strategic sales, solutions architecture, and revenue operations functions, positions us to scale with our customers everywhere they operate."

The leadership expansion comes amid a period of exceptional momentum for ClickHouse. The company recently surpassed $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, more than triple a year earlier, and crossed 4,000 customers, adding more than 1,000 net new customers in a single quarter. The breadth of customers featured at the company's Open House 2026 user conference reflects how deeply ClickHouse now sits in the enterprise stack, with speakers including Visa, Cisco, Intuit, Shopify, DoorDash, Mercado Libre, Zoox, and Jump Trading. These leadership appointments are a direct investment in that growth, adding the regional coverage, enterprise relationships, and operational infrastructure to support customers at scale.

About ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database management system built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. Engineered for high performance, ClickHouse Cloud delivers exceptional query speed and concurrency, making it ideal for applications that demand instant insight from massive volumes of data. As AI agents become increasingly embedded in software and are generating far more frequent and complex queries, ClickHouse brings a high-throughput, low-latency engine, purpose-built to meet this challenge. Trusted by leading companies like Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, ClickHouse helps teams unlock insights and drive smarter decisions with a scalable, efficient, and modern data platform. For more information, visit clickhouse.com.

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