Leadership

Ed is President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at EDB. He drives the development and execution of EDB’s strategic vision and growth in the database industry. He joined EDB in 2008, and has since steered the company through 50+ consecutive quarters of growth, and a majority investment in the company from Bain Capital in 2022. Prior to that, he led EDB’s acquisition of 2ndQuadrant, which brought together the world’s top Postgres experts and positioned EDB as the largest dedicated provider of Postgres solutions and services worldwide. A veteran of the open source software movement, Ed is a seasoned enterprise software executive who emphasizes a technology-first business approach in order to lead the open source data movement. Prior to EDB, Ed served as Vice President and General Manager of North America at Red Hat, where he played a central leadership role in the development of the modern business model for bringing open source to enterprises. He is known for his passion, relentless energy, and strategic leadership. Prior to his business career, Ed honed his leadership skills as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from Boston University.

Chandler Hoisington is EDB’s Chief Product Officer. Chandler is responsible for product definition, vision, design and strategy, supporting a portfolio of Global 5000 customers. A software executive with nearly two decades of experience, Chandler thrives in leading highly technical and complex products and teams. As the former GM Kubernetes Hybrid & Edge for AWS, Chandler led key Kubernetes businesses for Amazon. Helping marque customers move business critical workloads to modern software platforms allowing them to improve reliability and time to market.  Prior to AWS, Chandler was the SVP of Product and Engineering at D2iQ, formerly Mesosphere. While at D2iQ, an a16z and Khosla backed startup that has raised over $200 million, he led the strategy and execution to transition the company from a Mesos foundation to Kubernetes as the core offering. Before D2iQ he held the role of VP of Engineering for Risk Management Solutions, a 30+ year old enterprise leader in the catastrophe modeling space. 

Jozef de Vries leads product development for EDB across the on-premise and cloud portfolios. Prior to joining EDB, he spent nearly 15 years at IBM across a number of roles. Most recently he built out and led the IBM Cloud Database development organization via organic growth, mergers and acquisitions.

Leslie O’Neil is Vice President, Global Human Resources at EDB. Leslie oversees the strategic planning of EDB’s worldwide talent needs, as well as manages the supporting systems for human resources. Leslie is a 20-year human resources leader. Prior to joining EDB, she was Director of Human Resources at AppNeta. She spent almost seven years as a Human Resources Business Partner at Constant Contact during their high growth phase. Before that, Leslie was Senior HR Generalist at MBI and spent seven years as Employment Manager for Pioneer Investments. She also was an Assistant Director of Human Resources for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Leslie earned her BA from LeMoyne College.

Marc Linster, Ph.D., is EDB’s Chief Technology Officer. Marc leads EDB's Office of the CTO, where he and his team of PostgreSQL experts work with key customers and strategic partners on providing strategic technical direction, visionary thought leadership, and leveraging key technology trends to drive business growth. Marc is committed to EDB being an innovation accelerator, providing architectural “know-how” to help customers take advantage of PostgreSQL and understand the art of the possible. Marc believes that open source is a key driver for digital transformation, and that customers greatly benefit when they partner with a company that can provide strategic guidance, customer-centric support, and timely resolutions to complex technical challenges. Marc has an extensive background in engineering, technology and consulting, with over 20 years of management experience. Before joining EDB, he spent four years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, where he was a Senior Director, Engineering for Cloud and Hosted Solutions. Before Polycom, Marc was Co-founder and President of TriPoint Interactive, a global supply chain consulting and systems integration company. He spent six years at Avicon Group, first as CTO and then as Vice President of Operations. Marc holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.

Rich Kennelly leads Cloud Sales and Marketing for EDB, focused on EDB BigAnimal, an enterprise-grade, fully managed Postgres Database-as-a-Service. He is an experienced cloud business, product, and technology leader with experience aligning product lines with market opportunity and driving businesses to higher growth and profitability.  Experience with SaaS, Applications, Cloud, Security, Data, and IT.  Prior to EDB, Rich held critical leadership positions at Akamai, Ipswich, Connotate, and Nortel.

Sean Dolan is Chief Revenue Officer at EDB. In his role as CRO, Sean drives global alignment of all revenue-generating departments, Customer Success, Services and strategic partnerships and alliances to increase growth, value and alignment with EDB’s customers. A global technology executive with 30+ years of experience, Sean has a track record of growing complex SaaS, mobile, networking, and service businesses in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining EDB, Sean occupied senior executive roles, including Americas SVP of sales at Qlik, President and CEO at Global Knowledge, EMEA GM and SVP at Juniper Networks, and President and APAC GM at Alcatel-Lucent. Sean earned his BBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.