Jason Nadeau VP Marketing, Dremio

Dremio, a data lake engine company, appointed Jason Nadeau as VP marketing.

In this new role, he will be responsible for leading global marketing team as it continues to scale in an effort to help enterprises realize the benefits made possible by the tectonic shift to analytics on cloud data lake storage.

“Over the last couple years we’ve grown from a few early adopters to dozens of enterprise customers, and we’ll continue to scale our customers and revenue over 3X annually while also extending the adoption of our open source technologies,” said Tomer Shiran, co-founder and CEO. “Given the amazing opportunity ahead of us, we are excited to welcome Jason to the Dremio family. His experience in creating new industry categories and leading world-class marketing programs, combined with his passion for disruptive technologies, makes him a great fit for our team.“

Nadeau brings over two decades of marketing, product management, and pre-sales experience in enterprise software and hardware across multiple domains. Prior to joining Dremio, he was VP of product marketing for Pure Storage where he created differentiated Evergreen Storage model of consumption and helped grow the company’s revenues nearly 10X over 5 years. Previously, he was VP of product management at Hewlett-Packard (software), and held roles in product management at Symantec and Veritas. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria and a Master of Business Administration from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

“The analytics market is ripe for disruption, and Dremio is perfectly positioned to capitalize on the cloud data lake trend,” said Nadeau. “Dremio has demonstrated strong leadership in the open source and data analytics communities and I look forward to working with the executive team and the sales and product development organization to ensure we are delivering the type of customer experience that will achieve sustained sales growth and market leadership, while consciously shaping our company culture.”

Dremio’s Data Lake Engine delivers fast query speed and a self-service semantic layer operating directly vs. data lake storage. It eliminates the need to copy and move data to proprietary data warehouses or create cubes, aggregation tables and BI extracts, providing flexibility and control for data architects, and self-service for data consumers. Founded in 2015, the firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Norwest Venture Partners and Cisco Investments. Connect with Dremio on GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.