Steven Schuurman

Steven Schuurman holds an incredibly elite, highly rigorous corporate background in scaling open-source software into massive enterprise businesses. Having already built and successfully exited SpringSource, his deep, highly specialized background monetizing open-source communities provided the exact commercial and operational blueprint required to aggressively scale Elastic into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

Steven Schuurman is a highly prominent Dutch technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and inaugural CEO of Elastic. Before deeply impacting the global search market, Schuurman had already achieved massive success by co-founding the open-source software company SpringSource in 2005 (which was famously acquired by VMware in 2009). In 2012, recognizing the absolutely massive commercial potential of Shay Banon's Elasticsearch project, Schuurman joined forces with Banon to co-found Elastic. Serving as the company's first CEO, Schuurman aggressively scaled the company's global operations, completely dominating the enterprise search and observability markets. After securing Elastic's status as a tech 'unicorn' and laying the massive groundwork for its 2018 NYSE IPO, he stepped down in 2017 to dedicate his career to technology philanthropy.