DigitalOcean, a company offering AI-native cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise organizations, announced several new appointments to its executive leadership team. Kevin Van Gundy joins as chief revenue officer, Leo Leung will assume the role of chief marketing officer and Brady Mickelsen will serve as chief legal and administrative officer.
These appointments follow a period of substantial growth for DigitalOcean, during which the company recorded a 22 percent year-over-year revenue increase. The company’s new executives will help spearhead its growth and support new cloud capabilities as the AI industry shifts to focus on inference and autonomous agents.
Prior to joining DigitalOcean, Van Gundy was CEO of Hypermode. In his new position, he will architect sales strategy for DigitalOcean’s AI-native accounts to expand them on multi-year contracts. Leung was previously the director of product management for AI and computing infrastructure at Google. He will now focus on accelerating outbound engagement with AI-native companies and scaling the company’s reach to developers. Mickelsen, formerly chief legal officer at Tanium, will lead DigitalOcean’s legal, people and real estate functions.
“This era needs a new type of cloud, designed for AI-native customers. We built it — and now we have the team to win it,” Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean’s CEO, said in a statement. “Kevin, Leo and Brady have scaled category-defining companies, and they bring exactly what this chapter demands: commercial firepower, a sharp market understanding and operational rigor.”
