Data integration firm adds cloud veteran Eric Benson to drive consumption-based
growth
DENVER and MANCHESTER, England, April 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud veteran and
former AWS executive Eric
Benson joins data integration provider Matillion as its new
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Benson takes on the CRO role having spent more than 10 years at
AWS in multiple senior executive roles including Enterprise Sales,
Business Development, and Digital Native Strategy.
Benson said: "I could not be more excited to join Matillion. The
role presents the perfect combination of technology, people and
culture, making it an easy decision to join particularly as we move
beyond the hype of artificial intelligence to real-world use
cases.
"With the explosion of data in the enterprise and rise of AI,
Matillion is well positioned to execute and innovate for the
future."
More recently, Benson served as VP of Americas Cloud Sales at
VMware where he established partnerships with Microsoft and Google,
and expanded the AWS partnership resulting in revenue growth from
$60M to over $350M.
Matthew Scullion, Matillion
co-founder and CEO, said: "Eric is a revenue leader that has
delivered consumption-based growth strategies, built channels and
scaled sales teams for some of the largest cloud vendors in the
world.
"Eric brings a wealth of experience working in cloud for more
than a decade, building consumption-based go-to-market strategies
that shaped how we consume technology today.
"This skillset is perfectly placed to make the most of the
extraordinary market opportunity at Matillion as the Data
Productivity Cloud continues to evolve and integrate an
ever-growing roster of new features, including industry-first AI
functionality to help solve the productivity gap in data
engineering."
Matillion recently announced its standing in the AI space with
the launch of a range of features augmenting data engineering,
delivering real-world use cases with pushdown AI and ETL.
Media contact: Alice Gibson
press@matillion.com
About Matillion
Matillion is the data pipeline platform for data teams to build
and manage pipelines faster for AI and analytics at scale.
Matillion Data Productivity Cloud empowers the entire data team
- coders and non-coders alike - to move, transform and orchestrate
data pipelines faster, integrating with the world's biggest cloud
data platforms including Snowflake, Databricks and Amazon
Redshift.
The fast-growing data integrations provider was minted a unicorn
in 2021, and has dual headquarters in both Denver, CO (US) and Manchester (England). In 2023, Matillion launched the Data
Productivity Cloud, alongside a raft of AI features to support
AI-augmented data engineering.
Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, DocuSign, Slack, and
Western Union trust Matillion for a wide range of use cases from
insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine
learning, and AI.
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SOURCE Matillion Ltd