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Ashutosh Kulkarni has served as our CEO since January 2022 and as a member of our board of directors since March 2022. Mr. Kulkarni previously served as our Chief Product Officer (CPO) from January 2021 to January 2022. Prior to joining us, Mr. Kulkarni served as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Enterprise Business Group, at McAfee, a digital provider of cybersecurity services, from October 2018 until December 2020. Prior to joining McAfee, Mr. Kulkarni served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company, in the Web Performance and Web Security division from August 2016 to October 2018 and in the Web Experience division from August 2015 to August 2016. Prior to that service, Mr. Kulkarni held various senior leadership, product management, product marketing and engineering roles at Akamai Technologies, Informatica, and Sun Microsystems. Education: Mr. Kulkarni earned an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.E. in engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Mark Dodds has served as our Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) since December 2023. Prior to joining us, he served in multiple leadership positions spanning 23 years at Cisco, a global digital communications company, most recently as Senior Vice President, Global Services & Software Sales from August 2020 to December 2022 and before that as Senior Vice President, Global Enterprise Segment from July 2018 to August 2020. Mr. Dodds holds a B.S. in marketing from Clemson University.

Navam Welihinda has served as our CFO since February 2025. Prior to joining us, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Grammarly, an AI writing assistant company, from September 2024 to February 2025. Before his service with Grammarly, Mr. Welihinda served as the Chief Financial Officer of HashiCorp, an infrastructure cloud company, from February 2021 to September 2024, and as Vice President of Finance of that company from February 2017 to February 2021. Prior to his roles at HashiCorp, Mr. Welihinda served as the head of finance at Compose within IBM, a multinational technology company, from October 2015 to December 2016. He served as Vice President, Finance at Compose, a cloud database platform company, from May 2013 to October 2015, when it was acquired by IBM. Mr. Welihinda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Shay Banon co-founded our Company and has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2012 and as our CTO since January 2022. Mr. Banon served as our CEO from May 2017 to January 2022, and as our Chairperson and CEO from June 2018 to January 2022. He previously also served as our CTO from July 2012 to April 2017. Mr. Banon is the creator of our Elasticsearch product. Education: Mr. Banon holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Chetan Puttagunta has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2017, as our Chairperson since January 2022, and as our Lead Independent Director since June 2018. Mr. Puttagunta has served as General Partner of Benchmark Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, since July 2018. From October 2016 until July 2018, Mr. Puttagunta served as a General Partner of New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm he joined in April 2011. Mr. Puttagunta also serves on the boards of directors of various private companies. Education: Mr. Puttagunta holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Paul Auvil has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. From March 2007 to February 2023, Mr. Auvil served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Proofpoint, an enterprise security company that provides software as a service and products for email security, data loss prevention, electronic discovery, and email archiving. From September 2006 to March 2007, Mr. Auvil was an entrepreneur-in-residence with Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior to that position, from 2002 to July 2006, he served as the CFO at VMware, a virtualization company. Previously, he served as the CFO for Vitria Technology, an eBusiness platform company, and held various executive positions at VLSI Technology, a semiconductor and circuit manufacturing company, including Vice President of the Internet and Secure Products Division. Mr. Auvil currently also serves on the board of directors of Cerebras, an artificial intelligence chipmaker, where he is the audit committee chair. Previously, Mr. Auvil served on the board of directors of 1Life Healthcare (doing business as One Medical) from September 2019 to February 2023, when it was acquired by Amazon. Mr. Auvil also serves on the boards of directors of various private companies. Education: Mr. Auvil holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Shelley Leibowitz has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2021. Ms. Leibowitz has served since January 2016 as President of SL Advisory, which provides advice and insights in innovation and digital transformation, information technology portfolio and risk management, digital trust, performance metrics, and effective governance. From 2009 through 2012, Ms. Leibowitz served as Chief Information Officer for the World Bank Group. Prior to that service, Ms. Leibowitz held Chief Information Officer positions at leading financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm, and Greenwich Capital Markets, a fixed income financial services firm. She currently serves as a director of Morgan Stanley. Previously she served as a director of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, an insurance and financial services provider, from October 2019 to April 2021, E*Trade Financial Corporation, a financial services company, from December 2014 to October 2020, and AllianceBernstein Holding L.P., a global asset management firm, from November 2017 to June 2019. Ms. Leibowitz also serves on the boards of directors of private companies in the cybersecurity and risk arenas. Education: Ms. Leibowitz holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College.

Caryn Marooney has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2019. She has served as a General Partner of Coatue Management, a technology-focused venture capital firm, since November 2019. From May 2011 to May 2019, Ms. Marooney served in various roles at Meta (formerly Facebook), a social networking and technology company, most recently serving as Vice President, Global Communications from March 2012 to May 2019. From June 1997 to March 2011, Ms. Marooney served in various roles, including President and CEO, with The OutCast Agency, a public relations firm. Ms. Marooney served as a member of the board of directors of Zendesk, a software development company that provides a software-as-a-service customer service platform, from January 2014 to May 2020. Ms. Marooney also serves on the boards of various private companies. Ms. Marooney holds a B.S. in Labor Relations from Cornell University. On August 24, 2026, Caryn Marooney notified the board of directors of Elastic N.V. that she will not be standing for re-appointment as a non-executive director following the expiration of her term at the annual general shareholders meeting in October 2026.

Steven Schuurman co-founded our Company and has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2012 and previously served as our CEO from July 2012 to May 2017. Mr. Schuurman serves on the boards of various private companies and is a private investor in both public and private companies. Education: Mr. Schuurman holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from TH Rijswijk, now known as The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Carolyn Herzog has served as our Chief Legal Officer since May 2022. Prior to joining us, she served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Arm, a semiconductor and software design company, from January 2017 to February 2022. From December 2000 to January 2017, Ms. Herzog served with Symantec, a cybersecurity software and services company, in various roles, most recently as Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel. Ms. Herzog holds a B.A. in French language and literature and music from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

On August 26, 2026, the Board nominated Julia Liuson to stand for appointment to the Board as a non-executive director at the 2026 AGM.Ms. Liuson served as President of the Developer Division of Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft), a global technology provider, from November 2021 until June 2026, and as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft from 2012 to 2021. Since January 2021, Ms. Liuson has served on the board of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a developer of computational, AI-driven software, accelerated hardware, and silicon intellectual property products and solutions. Since July 2026, Ms. Liuson has served as an observer on the board of directors of Schneider Electric SE, a provider of energy technology and automation solutions. Ms. Liuson also serves on the board of directors of Wanderboat.AI, an AI travel and local discovery platform. Ms. Liuson holds a B.S.E.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.

Ms. Jane Bone; Chief Accounting Officer.