Matt Holton

VP Sales North America Checkmk

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Matt Holton is VP Sales North America at Checkmk, the Munich-based company behind the Checkmk IT infrastructure monitoring and observability platform. He leads the company’s sales effort in the United States, a market Checkmk has been building out from its German base, and was the company’s named spokesman for its March 2026 distribution partnership with Climb Channel Solutions, which put Checkmk in front of Climb’s network of managed service providers, resellers and system integrators. Little else about his career is documented in first-party sources, and this profile records only what is.

Career Highlights

• VP Sales North America at Checkmk, as named in the company’s own newsroom release of 18 March 2026.
• Spokesman for Checkmk’s March 2026 partnership with Climb Channel Solutions, a U.S. distributor, aimed at scaling Checkmk through the North American channel.

Professional Journey

Checkmk began in 2007 as a consulting business founded by Mathias Kettner in Munich, released the open-source Check_MK monitoring add-on in 2009 and its first commercial product in 2012. It now reports more than 250 employees, tens of thousands of users in more than 50 countries, and U.S. offices in Atlanta and Minneapolis. In February 2025 it announced a strategic growth investment from PSG Equity, intended to fund product development and international expansion.

Holton’s role sits at the centre of that expansion. When Checkmk announced its distribution partnership with Climb Channel Solutions on 18 March 2026, he was the company’s voice on it: “We are seeing significantly growing demand for hybrid monitoring in the U.S. market, particularly among organizations with complex infrastructures,” he said, adding that Climb gave Checkmk “a strong distribution partner to scale this momentum effectively through the channel” and would let MSPs, VARs and system integrators expand their service offerings.

When he joined Checkmk, and what he did before, is not documented in any first-party source found.

Education

No education record was found.