On August 28, 2020, Elastic N.V. (the “Company” or “Elastic”) and Kevin Kluge, Senior Vice President of Engineering and a named executive officer of the Company, agreed to modify his role and responsibilities. The Company intends to commence a search for a Chief Product Officer to oversee its engineering and product functions. Mr. Kluge will remain an employee of Elasticsearch Inc. and will continue to retain his title of Senior Vice President of Engineering, overseeing a portion of Elastic’s engineering and product functions. Until the Company appoints a Chief Product Officer, Shay Banon, the Company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, will oversee the Company’s engineering and product functions, and Mr. Kluge will continue to report to Mr. Banon during this time.
Elastic NV is a Netherlands-based data analytics company. The Companyâs platform, which is available as both a hosted, managed service across public clouds as well as self-managed software, allows its customers to find insights from large amounts of data and take action. The Company offers three search-powered solutions - Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security - that are built into the platform, which is built on the Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest data from any source, in any format, and perform search, analysis, and visualization of that data. The Company helps organizations, their employees, and their customers find what they need, while keeping mission-critical applications running smoothly, and protecting against cyber threats. The Company generates revenue primarily from sales of subscriptions to its platform.