Instana Leadership

Pavlo Baron has over 25 years of broad experience in IT industry. He worked as enterprise architect and engineering lead in companies of different sizes and markets, such as Sixt and UniCredit. Pavlo has also helped multiple startups deliver successful technical products from the beginning, and ran an own small business specialising in solution delivery in the fast-growing internet business back in the days. As consultant, Pavlo helped enterprises of different sizes, such as Deutsche Bank, BMW, ING-DiBa, Fiducia, define and establish strategic moves towards modern technologies and Big Data. Pavlo's passion are high-performance, distributed systems and large data sets – the infrastructure behind Big Data - and data science, the areas he's pioneered very early for the companies he worked for. Pavlo is frequent speaker at international conferences such as QCon, TechMesh, GOTO. He also has written four IT books: ''Big Data for IT decision makers'', “Erlang/OTP”, “Pragmatic IT Architecture” and “Fragile Agile”.

Co-Founder of Instana, next generation application performance monitoring solution. I head the engineering team and build an awesome product that solves actual problems rather than present useless data.

Maik Schroeder is the Product Led Growth (PLG) Lead at IBM. Maik Schroeder attended Harvard Business School.

Experienced Vice President Sales with a demonstrated history of working in software sales. Strong sales professional with a Masters focused in Engineering - Civil & Env from Cornell University.

Frank Swain is a Chief Revenue Officer ► High Growth Strategies ♦ Organizational Alignment ♦ Sales Development at Instana, Founder Managing Director ►High Velocity / Low Friction Sales Expertise ♦ High Growth Strategies at Potter Consulting Group Llc, and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at ArangoDB and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked as Chief Revenue Officer ►Sales ♦ Revenue Generation ♦ Customer Success ♦ Global Partnerships at Apteligent; SVP, Worldwide Sales ►High Velocity Growth ♦ Low Friction Sales ♦ Revenue ♦ Team Building at AppDynamics; and SVP, World Wide Sales ►Global Sales ♦ Solution Selling ♦ Channel Sales ♦ Revenue Generation at SPLUNK INC. Frank works or has worked as Mgr:Global Account at Mercury Interactive. He studied at Suffolk University between 1975 and 1979.

Pavlo Baron has over 25 years of broad experience in IT industry. He worked as enterprise architect and engineering lead in companies of different sizes and markets, such as Sixt and UniCredit. Pavlo has also helped multiple startups deliver successful technical products from the beginning, and ran an own small business specialising in solution delivery in the fast-growing internet business back in the days. As consultant, Pavlo helped enterprises of different sizes, such as Deutsche Bank, BMW, ING-DiBa, Fiducia, define and establish strategic moves towards modern technologies and Big Data. Pavlo's passion are high-performance, distributed systems and large data sets – the infrastructure behind Big Data - and data science, the areas he's pioneered very early for the companies he worked for. Pavlo is frequent speaker at international conferences such as QCon, TechMesh, GOTO. He also has written four IT books: ''Big Data for IT decision makers'', “Erlang/OTP”, “Pragmatic IT Architecture” and “Fragile Agile”.

Co-Founder of Instana, next generation application performance monitoring solution. I head the engineering team and build an awesome product that solves actual problems rather than present useless data.