Steven Schuurman

Steven Schuurman was one of the four co-founders of Elastic, serving as Chief Executive Officer for the first five years of the company. Prior, Schuurman was Chief Executive Officer of Orange11, which was acquired by Trifork A/S (TRIFOR.CO). In addition, he co-founded the internationally renowned open source software vendor SpringSource, one of the most successful open source companies in history. SpringSource is the world's leading Enterprise Java middleware company, and was acquired by VMware (VMW) in 2009.