Mark Dodds

Chief Revenue Officer Elastic

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Mark Dodds is Chief Revenue Officer of Elastic N.V., the publicly traded company behind the Elasticsearch Platform, which combines search and AI to let organizations turn large data estates into answers and actions across search, observability and security. He has held the role since December 2023 and is one of five executive officers named in Elastic’s 2026 proxy statement. He arrived at Elastic after a 23-year career at Cisco Systems, where he rose through enterprise sales leadership to run global services and software sales — a background in large-account and consumption-style selling that maps onto Elastic’s mix of self-managed and cloud revenue.

Career Highlights

• Chief Revenue Officer of Elastic N.V. since December 2023; his offer letter, dated 1 December 2023, is filed as an exhibit to Elastic’s Form 10-K.
• Still serving as a Section 16 officer of Elastic as of a Form 4 covering a 9 September 2026 transaction, which records his officer title as Chief Revenue Officer.
• Senior Vice President, Global Services & Software Sales at Cisco Systems from August 2020 to December 2022.
• Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Segment at Cisco Systems from July 2018 to August 2020.
• Twenty-three years at Cisco in successive leadership positions before joining Elastic.
• Named as one of Elastic’s named executive officers for fiscal year 2026 in the company’s 2026 proxy statement.

Professional Journey

Dodds spent the bulk of his career at Cisco Systems, joining in the late 1990s and staying 23 years. Elastic’s proxy statement records the last two of those roles specifically: Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Global Enterprise Segment from July 2018 to August 2020, and then Senior Vice President, Global Services & Software Sales from August 2020 to December 2022. The move between those two posts tracks Cisco’s own shift from hardware-led selling toward software and subscription services, and it is the experience Elastic appears to have hired for.

He joined Elastic as Chief Revenue Officer in December 2023, signing an offer letter dated 1 December 2023 that the company filed as a material contract with its annual report. At Elastic he owns the global revenue organization for a company that sells both a self-managed licensed product and Elastic Cloud, and that has repositioned itself as “the Search AI Company”.

His incumbency is documented by continuing SEC filings rather than by a company web page. Elastic’s proxy statement filed on 28 August 2026 lists him, age 60, among the company’s five executive officers as of 21 August 2026, and a Form 4 filed on 10 September 2026 reports him as an officer with the title Chief Revenue Officer. Over the same period Elastic’s Chief Product Officer, Ken Exner, resigned effective 17 July 2026; Dodds remained.

Education

Clemson University

B.S., Marketing