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May 23, 2024

Industry Leading Product Innovator Shiv Ramji Joins Aiven’s Board of Directors

HELSINKI, Finland — May 23, 2024 Aiven, the trusted data and AI platform company, today announced the appointment of Shiv Ramji to its board of directors.

Ramji, who is currently President, Customer Identity Cloud at Okta, will bring extensive executive experience of accelerating business growth through product leadership across both media and cloud infrastructure to Aiven’s board of directors. Having served in senior product leadership roles at global organizations including DigitalOcean, Amazon, NBCUniversal, and The Nielsen Company, he is also widely recognised for his operational acumen in developing and scaling the adoption of market leading products and his track record of driving innovation at the intersection of B2C, B2B, and B2D

“With his deep heritage in business and product leadership and his passion for market leading product development, Shiv will make an excellent addition to Aiven’s board of directors,” said Oskari Saarenmaa, Aiven’s Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to Shiv bringing this expertise to drive the future direction of Aiven’s business and shape the approach to our continued innovation.”

“I am delighted to be asked to join Aiven’s board of directors and to contribute to its future growth in ensuring that organizations gain more value from their data. I see a great opportunity to provide my laser focus on delivering product excellence to developers and senior business leaders alike, while advising on how this can accelerate Aiven’s continued momentum in the market,” commented Shiv Ramji.

About Aiven

Aiven is a trusted data and AI platform company, helping organizations gain more value from their data. Aiven’s cloud platform combines open choice services to stream, store, and serve data, simply, securely, and rapidly across major cloud providers to power innovation. Aiven is trusted by thousands of customers to create next-generation applications confidently and quickly. You can visit us at aiven.io and follow us on LinkedIn and X at @aiven_io

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