Russ Klaus

Russ Klaus currently serves as the Federal Sales Director at Elastic, a position held since March 2023. Klaus has extensive experience in federal sales leadership, previously holding the role of Sales Director at UiPath from March 2021 to March 2023 and Federal Sales Director at Tableau Software from July 2015 to March 2021. Prior roles include Federal Sales for Tivoli at IBM and significant positions at RSA, where Klaus served as VP Federal Sales, and Verid as VP Sales, contributing to federal and financial sector growth. Early career experience includes a Regional Sales Director role at Digex and a District Sales Manager role at Verizon, along with an account executive position at Xerox. Klaus also briefly played as a placekicker for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988. Klaus holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from The University of Akron.