CloudBees Brings in New Leadership as DevOps Journey Accelerates Enterprise DevOps and automated delivery provider CloudBees names Stephen DeWitt as CEO as it looks to grow its platform and its revenues, with an eye toward an eventual IPO.
DevOps pioneer CloudBees has named Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO as the company positions for further growth and the possibility of an initial public offering.
DeWitt will take over the CEO role from company co-founder Sacha Labourey, who is transitioning to become the chief strategy officer. Labourey helped found CloudBees in 2010, and it has since raised more than $120 million in venture capital. The company got its start around the open-source Jenkins project, which provides automation capabilities to enable DevOps processes, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (
Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back
Richard Speed Thu 4 Feb 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share
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February s game of musical CEO chairs continued today with the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as boss of DevOps darling CloudBees.
DeWitt replaces co-founder Sacha Labourey. Labourey will take up the position of chief strategy officer and remain on both the board and exec team.
The move comes on the eve of Labourey s 11th anniversary with the company, having formerly served time at Red Hat and JBoss. DeWitt will be familiar to many from his days as CEO of Cobalt Networks, a company acquired by Sun Microsystems at the height of the dotcom boom.
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CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, today announced the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO. DeWitt is a distinguished technology executive who’s guided multi-billion-dollar businesses through IPO and strategic growth initiatives. The move represents a critical step for CloudBees, as the company expands its leadership position in the DevOps market and scales its global operations.
Stephen DeWitt (Photo: Business Wire)
Co-founder and former CEO Sacha Labourey will remain very involved at CloudBees as chief strategy officer. Labourey, based in Switzerland, led the CEO search process with full support from the board of directors. He remains a member of the board and of the executive team, focusing on corporate, product and partner strategy. He will partner closely with DeWitt to help shape the company’s vision for the market.