Kevin Van Gundy Joins DigitalOcean as Chief Revenue Officer

DigitalOcean has appointed Kevin Van Gundy as Chief Revenue Officer, strengthening its executive leadership team as the company continues to expand its cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence offerings.

In his new role, Kevin will lead revenue growth initiatives and help scale DigitalOcean's go-to-market strategy as businesses increasingly seek cost-effective and developer-friendly platforms to build, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications.

Prior to joining DigitalOcean, Kevin played a key role in scaling high-growth technology organizations, including Vercel, where he helped support rapid expansion by focusing on developer-centric products and experiences. His experience building revenue organizations around emerging technology platforms positions him well to support DigitalOcean's next phase of growth.

The appointment comes as the technology industry enters what many are calling the "inference economy," where the focus is shifting from training large AI models to efficiently running and deploying AI applications at scale. Organizations are increasingly looking for infrastructure partners that can deliver performance, simplicity, and cost efficiency for production AI workloads.

As AI adoption accelerates, developers and enterprises alike are seeking platforms that simplify infrastructure while enabling faster innovation and deployment.

DigitalOcean has been investing heavily in AI capabilities, with the company reporting significant growth across its AI-related business. According to Kevin, a large portion of this momentum is being driven by inference and core cloud workloads, reflecting increasing enterprise demand for production-ready AI environments rather than infrastructure built solely for model training.

His vision aligns closely with DigitalOcean's long-standing mission of empowering developers and businesses with accessible cloud technology. By combining cloud infrastructure, AI services, and developer-focused experiences, the company aims to help the next generation of builders create and scale intelligent applications more efficiently.

Kevin's appointment highlights DigitalOcean's commitment to capturing new opportunities emerging from the convergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and modern application development.

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform that provides developers, startups, and businesses with simple, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions. The company offers cloud computing, storage, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes, and AI services designed to help organizations build and deploy applications efficiently.