Leadership

Kevin Dallas is responsible for all aspects of the EDB business globally. EDB is a Bain Capital and Great Hill Partners portfolio company. Kevin brings over three decades of experience driving digital innovation and growth at technology companies, most recently as CEO at Wind River, a TPG portfolio company. As CEO, Dallas accelerated the software company’s growth culminating in its $3.5 billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022. Previously, Kevin spent nearly 25 years with Microsoft, where he most recently served as the corporate vice president for cloud and AI business development. Prior roles demonstrated his customer-focused approach to delivering advanced intelligent cloud and edge product innovation, and enabling customer digital transformation. Kevin is a recipient of the 2022 Gold Stevie Award, American Business Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, and the 2022 Globee Awards Gold Winner for Executive of the Year. Kevin currently serves as a director on the board of Align Technology, Inc. He holds a B.S.c. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

Hervé Timsit is a dynamic serial entrepreneur and sales leader, BMC and EMC alumni, navigating high-growth software companies with visionary acumen. He specializes in large, strategic deals in enterprise software, IT infrastructure, and cloud services. Herve is a consistent driver of sales organization growth, adept at go-to-market strategy, and renowned for building top-tier salesforces. He demonstrates an innovative growth mindset in crafting portfolios of high-value customer accounts. He’s recognized for leadership excellence in guiding high-potential individuals across the spectrum, from start-ups to blue-chip public companies.

Mary-Beth Donovan is Chief Customer Officer, responsible for driving EDB’s customer value creation and customer experience strategy. In this role, Mary-Beth  leads a global team of customer success, professional services, customer support and PostgreSQL experts united in our mission to enable and accelerate value realization to our customers and strategic partners.  

Mary-Beth executes with more than 25 years of senior leadership experience at SaaS and enterprise software companies with a predominant focus on establishing a customer-centric culture of technology adoption through customer journey management and building for-scale best practices. 

Prior to joining EDB, Mary-Beth was the VP of Customer Success Management and Experience at VMware. Before VMware, Mary-Beth successfully held numerous leadership roles in customer success, strategy, and operations at PTC. Mary-Beth holds a B.S. in Finance and an MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 

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.

Michael Gale is the Chief Marketing Officer for EDB. He is based in Seattle, WA. Michael leads the brand, Go-to-Market marketing functions and strategic marketing direction as the company leads its own digital transformation and the digital transformation journeys of our customers. 

Michael is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the number one selling book on Digital Transformation, The Digital Helix and hosts the Futures in Focus podcast about the world of ten years from now, (on Forbes for four years). He is a Thinkers360 top 10 influencer for AI, and on sustainability technologies.

Prior to EDB, Michael was at Wind River as the CMO and led the company’s complete rebranding as it went from being an embedded software company to a leading intelligent systems company, which led to the company being sold to Aptiv for over $3bn. His team won the platinum dot.com marketing award for the intelligent systems campaign in 2022. He has founded and sold two marketing SaaS companies (Strategic Oxygen, PulsePoint) that were used to plan complex integrated marketing programs in the technology industry. He was a group Partner at Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and was the CWO at Micron when it became a top three internet e-commerce company. Michael holds a degree in economics and history from the UK.

Einav is the Chief Human Resources Officer at EDB. She is based in San Diego, CA. Einav is an Innovative advisor and mentor to CEOs, C-Suite leaders, and the Board, in areas of human capital strategy, full Talent cycle, Human capital in Intelligent systems and AI driven workplace, Change Management, Mergers & Acquisitions and Organizational scaling for growth.

Prior to EDB, Einav spent over 20+ years in developing and leading world-class HR departments internationally to complement corporate strategy in fast growing, PE backed companies.  Einav is a recent recipient of 2 awards – Finalist of the “2023 CHRO of the Year” from HRO Today Magazine and 2022 “Women that Build - Inspiring Executive” award from Globant. Einav's thought leadership has also been featured in several articles she has published in Business and HR magazines, in areas of Diversity, Talent Transformation and AI at the workplace. 

Einav holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Cognitive Science, and a Masters’ degree in Financial Economics from Israel. 

Patrick is responsible for all finance-related functions for EDB worldwide.

Patrick brings over 25 years of experience with building global high-growth businesses while playing financial, strategic, and operational roles.  Most recently, Patrick was CFO of Everbridge, a publicly-traded SaaS business.  During Patrick's time at Everbridge, the company IPO'd, created the fast-growing global Critical Event Management category while achieving profitable growth, and exited successfully to Thoma Bravo.  Patrick has also worked at Google, ITA Software, and PwC.  

Patrick holds a BS in Accounting from Lehigh University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Rob Feldman is EDB’s Chief Legal Officer. Rob is responsible for the worldwide legal and compliance functions. An experienced executive and lawyer, Rob builds high-performing legal teams to support growing technology companies in dynamic business and regulatory environments. Most recently, Rob led a 45-person legal team at Citrix Systems, Inc. as its General Counsel, including through its +$16 billion take-private transaction in 2022. Prior to Citrix, Rob spent more than a decade in private practice as a technology company litigator, focused in securities fraud defense, intellectual property disputes and government and internal investigations.   

A strategic leader with 20+ years of experience strategizing, developing, and managing software services solutions for global, multi-channel enterprises, LeAnne Nguyen has successfully launched multi-million dollar B2B and B2C software initiatives for enterprise clients across diverse verticals. Her accomplishments include managing geographically dispersed 400+ engineering organizations and global Fortune-500 clients. As EDB's Chief of Staff, LeAnne works alongside the CEO and executive team members to refine and execute the company's vision, mission, culture and objectives. She is responsible for providing insights and recommendations that inform key decision-making processes. LeAnne brings an operational and customer engagement background and leverages in-depth understanding of product knowledge to build successful strategies for the EDB leadership team and broader organization.