ClickHouse, a leader in real-time analytics and data warehousing, announced on July 7, 2025, the appointment of Kevin Egan as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). With over 20 years of experience scaling enterprise sales at Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox, and Salesforce, Egan is set to drive ClickHouse’s global go-to-market strategy, capitalizing on the growing demand for AI-driven analytics solutions.
Kevin Egan joins ClickHouse at a critical juncture, as the company solidifies its position in the $100 billion analytics and AI market. “I’m incredibly excited to join ClickHouse at such a pivotal time,” said Egan. “As organizations navigate how to compete and thrive in the AI era, ClickHouse is emerging as the de facto database powering the real-time, scalable analytics that AI-driven applications demand.” With prior roles as Chief Sales Officer at Atlassian and senior positions at Salesforce, Dropbox, and Slack, Egan’s expertise in scaling enterprise sales to $1B+ revenue will drive ClickHouse’s expansion, particularly for its Cloud service, which saw 300% growth last year.
ClickHouse’s recent $350 million Series C funding round, led by Khosla Ventures, elevated its valuation to $6.35 billion, fueling the expansion of ClickHouse Cloud. The platform, trusted by companies like Tesla and OpenAI, supports petabyte-scale, real-time analytics, as showcased at its May 2025 Open House conference. “I am absolutely thrilled to work with Kevin again,” said CEO Aaron Katz, highlighting Egan’s 20-year relationship and proven ability to build trusted customer relationships and high-performing teams. Egan’s role will focus on strengthening partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and others, enhancing integrations like Amazon Bedrock and AWS Glue.
ClickHouse’s open-source, columnar database excels in high-throughput, low-latency analytics, processing billions of rows per second for AI, observability, and business intelligence applications. Egan’s appointment aligns with the company’s strategic collaboration with AWS and acquisitions like HyperDX, reinforcing its leadership in real-time data processing. With 2,000+ customers across fintech, healthcare, and consumer sectors, ClickHouse is poised to meet the rising demand for AI-native infrastructure, where 90% of enterprises see agentic AI as critical, per Gartner.
Kevin Egan’s leadership as CRO positions ClickHouse to accelerate its global growth and solidify its role as a foundational technology for AI-driven analytics. By leveraging his expertise and the company’s robust platform, ClickHouse aims to empower enterprises to modernize data infrastructure and achieve transformative outcomes in a competitive market.
ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database management system built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. Engineered for high performance, ClickHouse Cloud delivers exceptional query speed and concurrency, making it ideal for applications that demand instant insight from massive volumes of data. As AI agents become increasingly embedded in software and are generating far more frequent and complex queries, ClickHouse brings a high-throughput, low-latency engine, purpose-built to meet this challenge. Trusted by leading companies like Sony, Tesla, Anthropic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Lyft, and Instacart, ClickHouse helps teams unlock insights and drive smarter decisions with a scalable, efficient, and modern data platform.
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