David Obstler
Chief Financial Officer
2018 – Present
8 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Joining the rapidly growing startup as Chief Financial Officer in late 2018, David Obstler immediately began making critical, necessary strategic financial decisions to prepare the private company for its anticipated transition to the public markets. He overhauled and modernized Datadog's internal financial reporting structures, compliance frameworks, and global accounting practices to strictly meet rigorous Wall Street standards.
Legacy
Obstler brought extensive, valuable financial experience from his previous high-level CFO roles at successful companies like TravelClick and MSCI, as well as deep capital markets expertise from his earlier investment banking positions at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. His disciplined, strategic financial leadership was instrumental in executing Datadog's successful 2019 IPO, and he continues to expertly scale the company’s complex global financial operations to easily support its ongoing, international expansion and aggressive product diversification.