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title: "ClickHouse appoints new leader for Asia Pacific and expands global go-to-market leadership team"
description: "ClickHouse announced an expansion of its global go-to-market leadership team, appointing Ed Lenta as Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Lenta will lead regional go-to-market efforts and accelerate adoption of ClickHouse Cloud and the open-source database, following leadership roles at Databricks, AWS, and VMware. The company also appointed Takeshi Kaneko as Country Manager of Japan and added executives for financial services, public sector, global solutions architecture, and revenue strategy and operations. ClickHouse said the appointments support its growth after surpassing $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, more than triple the prior year, and exceeding 4,000 customers, including more than 1,000 net new customers in one quarter."
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# ClickHouse appoints new leader for Asia Pacific and expands global go-to-market leadership team

[Clickhouse](https://yomu.fyi/company/clickhouse) · Jun 8, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

ClickHouse announced an expansion of its global go-to-market leadership team, appointing Ed Lenta as Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Lenta will lead regional go-to-market efforts and accelerate adoption of ClickHouse Cloud and the open-source database, following leadership roles at Databricks, AWS, and VMware. The company also appointed Takeshi Kaneko as Country Manager of Japan and added executives for financial services, public sector, global solutions architecture, and revenue strategy and operations. ClickHouse said the appointments support its growth after surpassing $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, more than triple the prior year, and exceeding 4,000 customers, including more than 1,000 net new customers in one quarter.

## Context

ClickHouse is scaling its global organization to meet surging customer demand and support customers as organizations modernize data infrastructure for agentic AI. The expansion follows the appointment of Kevin Egan as Chief Revenue Officer and comes amid reported growth in annual run-rate revenue and customer count.

## Approach / What changed

ClickHouse expanded its go-to-market leadership team by appointing Ed Lenta to lead Asia Pacific and Japan, Takeshi Kaneko as Japan Country Manager, and executives for financial services, public sector, global solutions architecture, and global revenue strategy and operations. Andrew Straus is scheduled to join in late June.

## Takeaways

- Ed Lenta will lead ClickHouse's go-to-market efforts across Asia Pacific and Japan from Singapore, with responsibility for expanding ClickHouse Cloud and the open-source database in the region.
- Additional appointments cover financial services, public sector, global solutions architecture, and global revenue strategy and operations, broadening the company's enterprise and regional coverage.
- ClickHouse reported more than $250 million in annual run-rate revenue, over 4,000 customers, and more than 1,000 net new customers added in a single quarter.

**Tags:** [Machine Learning](https://yomu.fyi/topic/machine-learning), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Scalability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/scalability)

- Source: [Clickhouse](https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-appoints-apac-leader-and-expands-global-gtm-leadership)
- Source URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-appoints-apac-leader-and-expands-global-gtm-leadership
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-29T01:34:31.056Z

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