Redpanda Appoints Jennifer Lawrence as Chief Revenue Officer to Drive Next Stage of Global Growth

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Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, today announced that Jennifer Lawrence has been named the company’s new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In her new role, Lawrence oversees all go-to-market strategy, global revenue operations, and customer engagement initiatives to accelerate Redpanda’s continued growth and commercial impact.

“Redpanda is entering a transformative phase of growth,” said Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda. “As agentic applications move from concept to enterprise reality, the demand for reliable, high-performance streaming infrastructure has never been greater. Jennifer’s experience driving revenue growth at world-class companies makes her uniquely suited to guide us through this next chapter. Her leadership will help us reach new markets, deepen customer relationships, and extend our category leadership.���

Lawrence brings more than 20 years of revenue leadership experience, having previously served as CRO at Expel, where she grew new customers by over 600%, scaled out both commercial and enterprise teams, and expanded operations globally. Prior to Expel, Jennifer was a Global VP of Sales at Duo Security, which was acquired by Cisco in 2020. At Cisco, she led security sales and continued to expand Duo’s footprint from $7M ARR to over $550M ARR and over 30,000 customers.

“Redpanda sits at the rare intersection of proven product-market fit and an enormous market ripe for transformation,” said Lawrence. “Joining at this pivotal stage presents a unique opportunity to help scale a platform that customers truly love that’s powering the next generation of AI and mission-critical systems. The magic of Redpanda lies in its combination of cutting-edge technology, an extraordinary team of brilliant, driven individuals, and a shared determination to win big. It’s rare to find a company where customer enthusiasm is matched by internal passion, and I look forward to helping lead Redpanda into its next phase of global impact and growth.”

In October, Redpanda announced the acquisition of Oxla, a distributed SQL engine, and introduced the Agentic Data Plane (ADP), a new product line built to help enterprises govern and connect their data for the era of AI agents. These milestones build on a year of strong growth for the company, which also included Redpanda’s $100 million Series D funding and $1 billion valuation in March. With rapid customer adoption and continued product innovation, Redpanda has solidified its position as a leader in real-time data processing and governance.

To learn more about Redpanda, visit: https://www.redpanda.com/

About Redpanda

Redpanda is pioneering the agentic data plane - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, a broad connectivity suite, and a high-performance federated SQL query engine, all integrated into an agentic-first governance layer, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe. To learn more, visit our website at redpanda.com and follow us on X at @redpandadata.

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