Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, announced the promotion of Ryan Mac Ban to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this expanded role, Ryan will lead the global field strategy, bringing together sales, sales engineering, customer success, and sales operations to help customers activate real-time data to build the next wave of intelligent applications. After serving as President of Field Operations over the past five and a half years, Erica Schultz announced her intention to retire earlier this year.
“I am excited for Ryan to take on this expanded leadership role,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent. “His proven success scaling field teams at multi-product platform companies makes him an invaluable leader for Confluent’s next phase of growth. Ryan’s expertise will strengthen our go-to-market strategy and deepen customer relationships.”
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Prior to his promotion, Ryan served as Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales at Confluent. Ryan has over 20 years of sales leadership experience, building top-performing teams globally. Before joining Confluent, Ryan led the emerging products division at UiPath, where he oversaw global sales for all products outside the company’s core RPA offering and drove triple-digit revenue growth over four years. This success led to his promotion to President, UiPath Americas, where he drove significant growth across all offerings. Prior to UiPath, Ryan served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Networking, Security and Automation at VMware, where he developed and executed a comprehensive global sales strategy that drove double-digit sales growth year over year. Ryan also held leadership positions at Cisco, including Vice President, Sales of the Scalable Consumption Offers team, where he helped the company transition to a subscription-based business.
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“It’s a privilege to take on the role of Chief Revenue Officer and expand my responsibilities, especially as data streaming transforms how organizations get value from their data. Confluent’s category-defining data streaming platform is vital for generating real-time insights and fueling next-gen AI applications like Agentic AI. I look forward to continuing to partner with the global Confluent team to advance our mission and build on our strong foundation created by the widespread adoption of Apache Kafka®.”