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Andy Ellicott joins as advisor

Andy brings a decade of database and open source go-to-market experience from Vertica, Cloudant, IBM, Starburst Data, and DBOS. At this stage, positioning matters more than product — and Andy knows why database companies win and lose.

By
Ewen Fortune
23 January 2026

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