Kurrent Appoints Veteran Enterprise Technology CRO to Scale Sales and GTM Initiatives

Patrick Ball joins as CRO to bring Kurrent's event-native data platform mainstream across SaaS, AI/ML, finserv, manufacturing and retail, delivering faster development cycles, better customer insights and lower operational costs

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Event-native data platform innovator Kurrent today announced the appointment of industry leader Patrick Ball as CRO to spearhead the company’s sales and GTM initiatives. Ball has comprehensive expertise and sales success in enterprise IT management software, business application software, SaaS and open source software (OSS). At Kurrent, he will lead the company’s go-to-market strategy and drive revenue growth across key enterprise segments including financial services, retail, manufacturing and AI/ML systems, focusing on expanding market reach, building strategic partnerships and scaling sales operations to accelerate customer acquisition.

“Patrick brings exceptional leadership and a proven ability to recruit, develop and manage complex sales teams in both Fortune 500 and enterprise markets. As we continue to expand our market presence and serve our growing customer base, his deep go-to-market expertise and knowledge of how to leverage AI gives us the strategic advantage we need,” said Kirk Dunn, CEO of Kurrent. “World-class technology demands world-class leadership, and we’re continuing to build that team as we execute on our market expansion strategy.”

Ball joins Kurrent with extensive sales leadership experience and a proven track record of scaling revenue organizations. As previous CRO of Crux he built the GTM function from the ground up, increased sales by 400%, closed over $75 million in bookings and formed global commercial and GTM strategic partnerships. At Privatar (now Informatica) he led all Global GTM Revenue teams and while at NextLabs rebuilt the GTM function, grew sales by over 150% and launched global GTM partnerships. While VP of Sales at Cloudera he helped the company grow from $10 million ARR to $250 million, scaling the sales organization by 5X. He has also served as the GTM advisor to Waypoint Group, Gamekeepr and Activeloop.

“Kurrent is at a pivotal moment in its growth journey. The rising adoption of its event-native data platform makes it possible for enterprise software development teams to build exceptional software with complete historical context of their company’s data in real time,” Ball shared. “I look forward to applying my experience to accelerate Kurrent’s go-to-market and sales efforts, connecting more businesses with a solution that modernizes their operations for the scale and speed of the AI era. My goal is to serve high-value market segments and execute targeted strategies to maximize revenue growth.”

From modern microservices and agentic AI applications to real-time analytics, organizations using Kurrent’s streaming database gain direct, fast, granular access to highest-fidelity source data for downstream use cases without the need for complex data pipelines or tradeoffs. The company has reimagined data movement, providing instant replay of detailed, real-time insights that enable stakeholders to maximize the value of their data.

About Kurrent

Kurrent provides an event-native data platform that feeds real-time, business-critical data with historical context in fine-grained streams from origination to destination, enhancing data analytics and AI outcomes. Kurrent is available on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform and as an on-premises solution. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kurrent’s event-native technology is deployed in high stakes use cases in finance, tech, oil and gas, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, automotive, government and many other industries globally. Context in action.™

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