STARTUPEDIA SPEAKERS

Steven Schuurman is the co-founder and CEO of Elastic. In this capacity Steven provides leadership to the Executive Leadership Team and supports the employees to ensure they have what they need to be successful. Before taking on the CEO role at Elastic, Steven was CEO of Orange11, which was acquired by Trifork A/S (TRIFOR.CO) in 2012. Prior to Orange11, Steven co-founded the internationally renowned open source software vendor SpringSource, one of the most successful open source companies in history. SpringSource is the world’s leading Enterprise Java middleware company, and was acquired by VMware (VMW) in 2009.