Jeff Yoshimura

Jeff Yoshimura leads global marketing at Elastic with 20 years of B2B technology and consulting experience. Most recently, Jeff launched a few startups in the machine learning and analytics space, including Ayasdi, where he was awarded the Sage Group/WSJ 2013 Big Data Marketer of the Year for taking the company out of stealth after 10 years of R&D at Stanford and DARPA. Previously, Jeff was a founding team member at Zuora, and spent 5 years in sales, marketing, and business development leadership functions. Prior to Zuora, Jeff was one of the first few hundred pre-IPO employees at Salesforce, and in 5 years, Jeff led the company's first 10K seat deployment, launched the AppExchange, and helped the company get to its first $1B in revenues. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis.