PagerDuty announced that technology sales leader Richard Steinhart joined the company as VP of Worldwide Sales.
A 20-year veteran of high-growth technology companies, Steinhart will lead PagerDuty’s go-to-market sales strategies, ranging from DevOps teams to global enterprise IT departments.
“We’re very excited to welcome sales veteran Richard Steinhart to lead our sales team,” said PagerDuty CEO and Co-Founder, Alex Solomon. “PagerDuty is experiencing tremendous growth by solving complex IT operations problems, and Richard’s experience strongly aligns with our long-term growth goals.”
Before joining PagerDuty, Steinhart played a key role in increasing cyber-security firm Imperva’s revenue by more than 40 percent in his tenure there. For 12 years prior, he held several sales leadership roles at Informatica, most recently as vice president sales and marketing operations at the world’s leading independent provider of data integration software. He also helped lead the Accrue Software and Loudcloud (rebranded as Opsware and acquired by HP) sales teams through each company’s IPO. He began his career in technology as a sales engineer and earned his B.S. in applied mathematics and M.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
“Joining PagerDuty is an amazing opportunity to work with a talented team that truly cares about delivering reliable software to improve the lives of IT, ops, and engineering professionals,” said Richard Steinhart, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at PagerDuty. “I’m thrilled to help accelerate PagerDuty’s growth and enable our customers to increase their business’s uptime.”
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