ClickHouse has appointed Ed Lenta as Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan, based in Singapore.
He will lead the company's go-to-market efforts across the region, including Australia and New Zealand, as ClickHouse expands its leadership team in sales, public sector, solutions architecture and revenue operations.
Lenta joins from Databricks, where he was General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan and oversaw operations across more than 20 countries. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Amazon Web Services and VMware during those companies' expansion in the region.
His appointment comes alongside the hire of Takeshi Kaneko as Country Manager for Japan. Kaneko previously held senior roles at Nutanix, including President of Nutanix Japan, and also worked at Red Hat and Microsoft Japan.
Regional push
Lenta will focus on expanding use of ClickHouse Cloud and its open-source database among enterprises and public sector agencies across Asia Pacific and Japan. The company has also been building out its commercial leadership after naming Kevin Egan Chief Revenue Officer last year.
"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, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, ClickHouse.
"As agentic workloads scale, enterprises are rethinking their data architecture around both speed and efficiency. ClickHouse outperforms traditional data warehouses by orders of magnitude on critical cost-performance metrics, and that combination is what makes this technology so category-defining. I'm excited to build the teams and partnerships that will help organisations across the region unlock the full power of real-time analytics at scale," he said.
ClickHouse also added several executives to its wider revenue organisation: Billy Schoeffel as Vice President, Financial Services; Kenneth Melero as Vice President, Public Sector; Maged Shehata as Vice President, Global Solutions Architecture; and Andrew Straus as Vice President, Global Revenue Strategy and Operations.
Schoeffel joined after more than six years leading global financial services sales at Snowflake and previously held senior sales roles at ServiceNow. Melero came from Chainguard, where he led US public sector sales, and has also worked at Elastic.
Shehata most recently worked at Snowflake, where he led solution engineering teams across retail and consumer goods, financial services and healthcare. Straus has held revenue operations and go-to-market strategy roles at Snowflake, Kong and HPE.
Growth phase
The leadership hires come as ClickHouse reports rapid commercial growth. It has surpassed USD $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, more than triple the level of a year earlier, and now has more than 4,000 customers.
The company also said it added more than 1,000 net new customers in a single quarter. Customers it cited include Visa, Cisco, Intuit, Shopify, DoorDash, Mercado Libre, Zoox and Jump Trading.
ClickHouse describes its product as an open-source columnar database management system for real-time data processing and analytics. It says demand is being driven by companies updating data infrastructure for AI-related workloads and more complex query demands.
Kevin Egan outlined the company's view of the expansion: "As organisations race to modernise their data infrastructure for the demands of agentic AI, we are investing decisively in the world-class team needed to serve them globally," said Egan, Chief Revenue Officer, 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 wherever they operate," he said.