CData Software has appointed Raviv Levi as chief product and technology officer, Amit Naik as vice president of AI architecture and Craig Sanchez as senior vice president of embedded sales.
Levi joins CData from Sift, where he served as CPTO following senior leadership roles at Cisco, including vice president of security strategy and innovation for Cisco’s Security Business Group. He has led product, cloud security and platform initiatives focused on enterprise-scale infrastructure and AI-driven technologies.
“The world has changed,” said Levi. “In enterprise AI, the model layer is moving fast and orchestration is moving fast, but responsible access to data, with live connectivity, controls, and context, is quickly becoming the bottleneck for enterprises. That’s where CData already has a strong foundation, and that opportunity is exactly why I joined.”
CData provides live access and data replication to virtually any enterprise data source spanning SaaS applications, cloud platforms, and on-premises systems. Its platform makes enterprise data usable for AI through a unified layer that delivers connectivity, semantic context, and governance controls so that people can interact with data through conversational AI and agents can access and act on it autonomously, without complex pipeline infrastructure.
Naik will lead the design and evolution of CData’s AI architecture, working across product and engineering to ensure the platform meets the technical demands of enterprise AI deployments. He joins CData from Calix and previously held senior leadership roles in AI/ML solutions and infrastructure at PayPal, Financial Engines and Oracle.
Sanchez will lead CData’s embedded sales organization, helping software vendors and platform providers integrate enterprise-grade connectivity and AI data access directly into their products. He joins CData from Vectara and previously held senior sales and business development leadership roles at Elastic and Cloudera.
