Chris Vogel has more than 30 years of Silicon Valley-based leadership experience in sales engineering, IT, consulting, support, and customer success at companies including Google, Oracle, BroadVision, BEA Systems, and Apigee. While at Apigee, Chris was an executive team member and helped lead the company through a successful 2015 IPO and 2016 acquisition by Google. Prior to DataStax, Chris led worldwide customer engineering for the Business Application Platform team in Google Cloud.

Chris has a successful track record of architecting and executing innovative and transformational go-to-market strategies and customer success engagement model, and he's got a passion for company culture and people development. He earned a B.S. in Applied Math from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.