Ben Gaum

Global Account Director at Elastic

Ben Gaum is an accomplished sales professional with extensive experience across various industries, currently serving as Global Account Director at Elastic since June 2025. Prior to Elastic, Ben held the position of Director, Specialist Sales EMEA at Mastercard from February 2023 to May 2025 and served as Regional Sales Manager for Global Accounts at Splunk from June 2019 to January 2023. Ben's foundational roles include Sales Manager for Enterprise Business in Africa at Kaspersky and Business Development Manager for Southern Africa at Lectra. With a strong background in building relationships and driving sales strategies, Ben has successfully managed key accounts and developed new product launches throughout a diverse career, complemented by a LIB (SA) from the Institute of Bankers South Africa and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management & Administration from Stellenbosch University.

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Elastic

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Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for use cases like application search, site search, enterprise search, logging, APM, metrics, security, business analytics, and many more.


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