– USA, MA – Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the software intelligence company, today announced the appointment of Rick McConnell to its Board of Directors as CEO, effective December 13, 2021, to succeed John Van Siclen, who will retire on the same date.
Rick McConnell is the current President and GM, Security Technology Group at Akamai Technologies.
“The board has supported John’s interest in retiring and, after a thorough search, we found a new leader ideally suited to take Dynatrace forward. Today, we are thrilled to announce the appointment of Rick McConnell as Dynatrace’s incoming CEO,” commented Board Chair, Jill Ward.
About Rick McConnell
Rick has served as President of Akamai for most of his ten years at the company. During his tenure, Akamai has grown from just over $1 billion to nearly $3.5 billion in revenue. Rick initially served as President, Products, and Development, followed by President and GM of the Web Division, a role spanning products as well as global sales. Rick grew Akamai’s security business from a few million dollars of revenue in 2011 to a $1.3+ billion business growing 25% annually. Before Akamai, he was part of the early leadership team that built Cisco’s multibillion-dollar Communications and Collaboration business. Rick joined Cisco when the company acquired Latitude Communications, where he was CEO.
“I am excited to join Dynatrace as its next CEO,” said Rick McConnell. “Digital transformation is ubiquitous, and there is so much runway ahead. Dynatrace has a strong, growing, and differentiated leadership position in observability and is now entering the application security business, representing a dynamic adjacency with enormous potential. I am very much looking forward to leading Dynatrace through its next chapter of growth.”
About Dynatrace
Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance and security of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest enterprises trust Dynatrace to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivaled digital experiences.
For more information: https://www.dynatrace.com/
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