Open Source Database Leader Percona Appoints Liz Warner to Chief Technology Officer
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade, open source database software, support,
and services, today announced the appointment of Liz Warner as its new Chief
Technology Officer, to help meet the growing demand to make data simpler,
faster, and easier to manage.
An industry veteran, Warner comes to Percona with
decades of technical and senior leadership experience; including a proven track
record of driving successful organizational transformations. As CTO, she will
play an instrumental role in the development and implementation of Percona’s
ever-expanding collection of database solutions, including the
much-anticipated Percona Everest, an open source cloud-native database
platform.
“We’ve reached a pivotal moment in open source, and
Percona is doubling down on its commitment to staying open through the
expansion of our products and service offerings, as well as our involvement in
industry-wide initiatives such as The Linux Foundation’s Valkey Community. Our
accelerated growth will require a new level of strategic thinking, so I
couldn’t be more excited to welcome Liz Warner to the team,” said Ann
Schlemmer, CEO of Percona. “Liz brings a wealth of experience and plenty of
success transforming organizations across a variety of industries. Her
experience and leadership will prove invaluable to the Percona team as we
continue to scale and build world-class open source database solutions.”
Most recently, Warner served as the CTO of
Weaveworks, a cloud-native container management company, where she led product
strategy and engineering teams. She comes to Percona with over a decade of
success serving as CTO across a range of industries and organizations,
including Clim8 Invest, Nationwide for Business, Motion Picture Solutions,
Mettle, LendInvest, and Toyota Connected.
Warner’s appointment comes at a strategic time for
Percona. After a historic 2023 — marked by sustained customer growth,
multiple prestigious award wins, and several innovative product enhancements —
Percona is well-positioned to bolster its position as the go-to provider of
open source database solutions and support services in the months and years
ahead.
The new executive appointment comes as Percona
co-founder and long-time CTO, Vadim Tkachenko, has chosen to step away from the
executive position to assume a new set of duties as Technology Fellow at
Percona. As Technology Fellow, Tkachenko will focus on Percona’s involvement in
the Linux Foundation’s Valkey Community, the growth of vector databases and
other emerging technologies.
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