Leveraging extensive industry experience, Renee Mitsis will focus on deepening collaboration with partners and customers while helping scale Datadog’s partnership strategy across the region.
Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the AI-powered observability and security platform for cloud applications, has appointed Renee Mitsis as Head of Channel and Alliances for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).
Mitsis is an industry veteran who joins Datadog with more than 25 years’ experience in sales and the partner ecosystem. With Datadog’s Channel and Alliances team in A/NZ already well established and familiar with partners, customers, and the technology, Mitsis’ focus will be on strengthening collaboration across the team, partner ecosystem, customers, and organisation.
“Many organisations are still working with fragmented teams and systems, and that often extends to how they engage with partners,” said Mitsis. “One of my priorities is bringing the right partners into the conversation earlier – whether that’s embedding security expertise to reduce risk, activating AI specialists to accelerate adoption, or aligning DevOps partners to streamline delivery. When you match partners with the right expertise to the right problem, customers move faster and see stronger outcomes from the platform, while partners gain deeper, more strategic opportunities to grow.”
Prior to joining Datadog, Mitsis spent five years leading partner sales in growth markets at AWS, working with partners to support customers expanding their presence on the AWS Cloud. This was preceded by more than a decade-long stint at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where, among her many achievements, she proudly founded and led HPE’s Women’s Leadership Network, creating a collaborative community empowering women to build their careers. A passion she brought with her to AWS through diversity initiatives and she hopes to continue at Datadog.
“Over the past years, I’ve seen first-hand how quickly technology environments have become more complex, with AI accelerating change, expanding attack surfaces, and raising the bar for what customers need to manage across reliability, security and compliance,” said Mitsis. “Datadog stood out because it brings those conversations together in one place, giving organisations visibility and control when the cost of getting it wrong has never been higher. What really drew me in, though, was the strength of the partner ecosystem here in Australia and New Zealand. This is a market where partners play a critical role in helping customers navigate AI and security complexity, and confidently turn technology investment into real outcomes.”
Reflecting that focus, Datadog’s partner strategy is built on three pillars: deep collaboration with cloud service providers like AWS, engagement with local and regional system integrators serving diverse business segments, and partnerships with global system integrators and consulting firms supporting large enterprise initiatives.
“Datadog partners often begin using the platform for a single capability, but its broad ecosystem enables them to expand into areas like security, digital experience, and AI-driven operations – helping customers achieve outcomes like faster threat detection, reduced risk, and AI-powered automation. This partner-led growth model closely mirrors AWS’s ecosystem approach, creating strong alignment between the two organisations,” said Eric Gaines, Channel and Alliances Director, Asia Pacific at Datadog. “As Datadog expands across ANZ and APAC – particularly in regulated industries – partnerships are becoming a key driver of adoption and innovation. Renee’s diverse background across AWS product, marketing, and partner leadership makes her uniquely positioned to help scale this strategy.”
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