Patrick Venzke, an industry leader armed with over 25 years of telecommunications and IT sales experience gained through a series of progressively responsible roles, has taken on a new challenge as Director Federal Business Development at Elastic. Patrick’s specialties include strategic and tactical sales planning and execution, cloud computing, network management software, hyper-converged environments, data fabric and cybersecurity. Prior roles include: Senior Manager Regional Sales Fed-Civ/Commercial Cyber Security – Raytheon Public Sector Cloud and Software Business Development Manager – NetApp Channel Development Director Cloud Services, Terremark Public Sector – Terremark Elastic was named to the list of NXT UP firms poised to make big waves in the Federal sector in 2020 and for years to come.