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10 Datadog sales leaders
These ten sales executives currently lead Datadog sales teams at vice president level across the Americas, EMEA and Asia. A reader can learn how Datadog organizes enterprise, commercial and federal selling, builds regional teams and expands customer accounts.
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01—10Ali Azarian
LinkedInExperience: Area Vice President of Sales, Asia · Datadog
Area Vice President of Sales, Asia at Datadog since October 2025, based in Singapore. He previously served at Datadog as Regional Sales Director, ASEAN, India & GCR (2020–2023) and Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Asia (2023–2025), after roles at Rackspace Technology including GM, ASEAN & India (2017–2019).
Ben Brockland
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President · Datadog
Regional Vice President at Datadog since January 2026, described in the profile as a second line leader responsible for four senior sales teams supporting Majors Accounts and Key Accounts. His other Datadog roles include Enterprise Account Executive (2020–2021), Director, Enterprise Sales (2021–2024), Senior Director, Enterprise Sales (2024–2025) and Senior Director, Major Accounts (2025–2026).
Daren Martin
LinkedInExperience: VP Americas East & Latam · Datadog
VP Americas East & Latam at Datadog since January 2022, based in Atlanta per the profile. His other Datadog roles include Regional Director, Southeast & Mid-Atlantic (2017–2020), Regional Vice President Southeast, Mid Atlantic & Ohio Valley (2020–2021), RVP Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Latin America (2021–2022) and RVP Ohio Valley, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Latin America & Public Sector (2021–2022).
Joe Bleich
LinkedInExperience: Region Vice President, Federal Sales · Datadog
Region Vice President, Federal Sales at Datadog since July 2025, after serving there as Director, Federal Sales (2021–2023) and Senior Director, Federal Sales (2023–2025). Before joining Datadog he was Federal Sales Manager at Red Hat from 2014 to 2021, and the profile lists his current Datadog role in the Sales department at President/Vice President level.
Kyle McClave
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales · Datadog
Regional Vice President, Enterprise Sales at Datadog since September 2024, leading enterprise sales teams across New England and Canada according to the profile. He was previously Director, Enterprise Sales at Datadog (2021–2024) and, at Salesforce, Regional Vice President, Mulesoft (2019–2021).
Mark Fortune
LinkedInExperience: Area Vice President, Commercial Sales · Datadog
Area Vice President, Commercial Sales at Datadog since October 2025; the profile says he leads a 75+ person organisation across Northern EMEA that includes first and second-line leaders. His other Datadog roles include Senior Account Executive (2017–2019), Manager, Commercial Sales - UK I (2020–2021), Director, Commercial Sales EMEA (2021–2024) and Senior Director, Commercial Sales EMEA (2024–2025).
Mark Taylor
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President Central Region · Datadog
Regional Vice President Central Region at Datadog since January 2022, after serving as Datadog's Director of Enterprise Sales Ohio Valley Region from 2018 to 2021. Before Datadog he was Regional Director Ohio Valley at AppDynamics (2016–2018), which the profile notes was acquired by Cisco, and a Regional Sales Manager there (2012–2016).
Nick Hewitt
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President UK&I · Datadog
Regional Vice President UK&I at Datadog since October 2024, leading the UK&I Enterprise GTM team according to the profile. He joined Datadog in 2017 as Enterprise Account Executive and was Director, Enterprise Sales UKI&ZA from 2022 to 2024; earlier he was an Enterprise Account Executive at AppDynamics (2014–2017).
Steve Hovey
LinkedInExperience: Area Vice President, Enterprise Central · Datadog
Area Vice President, Enterprise Central at Datadog since January 2026. Before that he was Regional Vice President of Sales - Northcentral (2021–2025), described in the profile as a second line leader responsible for enterprise sales in the North Central territory, and Regional Director of Sales at Datadog (2018–2020); earlier he was Regional Sales Director - Global Compute and Client Solutions at Dell Technologies (2016–2018).
Tyler Simpson
LinkedInExperience: Area Vice President, Enterprise & Named Accounts (West) · Datadog
Area Vice President, Enterprise & Named Accounts (West) at Datadog since January 2026, described in the profile as a third line leader responsible for Datadog's Enterprise, Strategic, Key Accounts and Majors business in the Western US. His other Datadog roles include Strategic Account Executive (Bay Area) (2019–2020), Director, Strategic Sales (Bay Area) (2021–2023), Regional Vice President, Strategic Enterprise Sales (West Region) (2023–2024) and Regional Vice President, Named Accounts (West Central Regions) (2024–2026).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to your segment and region, since enterprise, commercial, federal and named-account teams sell differently. Favor people who came up through Datadog's own account executive and director roles if your question is about how its sales motion has changed over time.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Datadog decide when to expand an account from one product to more of the platform, and who drives that motion?
- 02How are enterprise, commercial and named-account teams split, and how does that change the buying experience?
- 03What do customers push back on most in Datadog renewals, and how are usage and pricing discussions usually resolved?
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