AI company Dataminr appointed Matthew Harrell as chief partner officer. Harrell is expected to draw on experience leading global channels and alliances for Cloudflare and the Americas channel for Google Cloud.
Specifically, he will be responsible for growing and scaling Dataminr’s partner ecosystem to meet accelerating global product demand, as well as for identifying new partner opportunity to bring emerging AI applications, services and solutions to market.
“At multiple previous companies, Matt successfully leveraged partner channels to accelerate go-to-market efforts and make a significant impact on revenue growth,” said Ted Bailey, the founder and CEO of Dataminr. “He is an extremely valuable asset, and exactly the right fit to help scale our customer base by bringing our AI platform and products to market through new and unique routes. We see a massive runway ahead for our partner ecosystem and have the utmost confidence that Matt will enable us to tap into the full potential of our partner capabilities.”
Harrell will also oversee growth within Dataminr’s global partner ecosystem, which includes Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Carahsoft, SHI/Stratascale, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation and Esri.
“Dataminr is at an important inflection point in its growth journey: it’s one of the few companies in the AI space that has demonstrated strong product market fit for its AI platform,” said Harrell. “There is an opportunity to bolster our partner strategy to fully leverage our industry-leading AI platform to help partners bring unique applications, solutions and services to their customers that combine the power of Dataminr’s predictive and generative AI to achieve far better outcomes. Behind this remarkable growth opportunity is a powerful mission of helping keep people, communities and assets safe, which is one of the central reasons I am thrilled to join the team at Dataminr.”
With over 25 years of experience across sales and channel leadership roles, Harrell joins Dataminr from Cloudflare. He also spent 10+ years with Google, where he led the Google Cloud partner business and channel go-to-market strategy across the Americas. Harrell also has entrepreneurial experience in early-stage investing and high-growth tech startups.
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