Industry veteran Adrian Towsey to further drive company’s regional expansion as rising technology spend heightens demand for observability, security and generative AI
Australia, Singapore, Japan & India – June 25, 2025 – Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has appointed Adrian Towsey as Vice President of Commercial Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), including India.
Towsey is an industry veteran who joins Datadog with more than 25 years of sales and consulting experience in the commercial sector. The newly created role will see him leverage his deep knowledge of the APJ market and cloud software to help customers overcome increasing technological complexities, and optimise their investments into observability, security and generative AI.
Commenting on his appointment, Towsey said, “After learning about Datadog from industry peers, I quickly discovered the company combines the best of both worlds: a comprehensive platform that enables customers to observe, secure and act on their cloud migrations, security and AI projects, plus a unique culture present across all teams.”
Prior to joining Datadog, Towsey spent 12 years in local and regional leadership positions at Salesforce. This was preceded by senior stints at telecommunications services providers, including Vodafone and Telstra.
Towsey will report to Bill Kohut, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Datadog, who said, “Adrian’s extensive experience in cloud software and regional go-to-market models will be instrumental in expanding our footprint across the diverse APJ commercial space. Working alongside our midmarket and enterprise teams, his understanding of the unique needs of our customers and partners in this region puts Datadog in an even stronger position to convert on expansion opportunities.”
Towsey’s appointment coincides with a surge in technology spend across APJ, which has spurred heightened demand for granular monitoring, analytics and security capabilities for cloud applications, data and infrastructure. Datadog continues to add technical, sales and marketing roles in A/NZ, ASEAN, India, Japan and Korea to support these requirements.
Datadog also recently appointed Yadi Narayana as Chief Technology Officer for APJ, and will soon launch its first Australian data centre instance to support the data sovereignty and residency requirements of customers and partners.
About Datadog
Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, cloud security and many other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security for our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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