Craig Sanchez

Craig Sanchez currently serves as the VP of Business Development at Vectara, overseeing global initiatives in Business Development, Channels, and Alliances since June 2025. Prior to this role, Craig spent over five years at Elastic, advancing from Sr. Director of Business Development to Global Lead for OEM and Tech Partnerships, achieving significant growth in embedded sales. Craig also held key positions at Cloudera, where leadership in Partner Sales fostered the establishment of the first Field Alliances team in the Americas, and at Informatica, where transformation of the Telebusiness team resulted in notable revenue generation. Craig began the career at Oracle in Inside Sales after earning a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara.