Rowan Trollope
Chief Executive Officer
2023 – Present
3 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
A veteran enterprise software leader who previously served as CEO of Five9 and SVP at Cisco and Symantec. Joined Redis as CEO in February 2023, succeeding co-founder Ofer Bengal. Led the bold and controversial March 2024 licensing transition from BSD-3 open-source to dual RSALv2 / SSPLv1 source-available licenses, preventing cloud hyperscalers from commercializing Redis software without revenue contribution. Accelerated the transformation of Redis into the primary real-time vector database for generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) semantic caching.
Legacy
Steered Redis into the generative AI era, optimized enterprise SaaS operations, and established long-term commercial software defensibility.