Greg DeYoung

Greg DeYoung is a Regional Vice President at Elastic working with SLED organizations. With a 35-year career bridging the gap between public sector leadership and enterprise technology, Greg offers a rare 360-degree perspective on the challenges facing modern government and education institutions. Before transitioning to executive roles at Microsoft and Elastic, he spent two decades serving as a Public Sector CIO, where he was responsible for the digital infrastructure of complex, multi-stakeholder organizations.

Having managed the same constrained budgets, navigated the same legacy technical debt, and defended the same “open” perimeters as his customers, Greg brings immediate credibility to the conversation. He is known for his ability to bridge the gap between technical complexity and organizational impact—translating fragmented data silos and security vulnerabilities into actionable, executive-level strategies. He excels at helping agency heads and institutional leaders understand that modernizing a tech stack is not just an IT project, but a fundamental requirement for fulfilling their public mission.

At Elastic, Greg focuses on helping SLED organizations solve the “Data Paradox” — the gap between the massive expectations of how data can empower organizations and the reality of fragmented, unsearchable data. By converging Data, AI, Search, Observability, and Security into a single platform, he helps leaders transition from reactive, fragmented monitoring and response to a unified, AI-ready data foundation. By breaking down these traditional silos, Greg empowers public sector teams to defend against autonomous threats in real-time while delivering the frictionless, data-driven services that modern citizens and students demand.

Whether facilitating executive dialogue or leading strategic initiatives, he bypasses vendor-centric pitches to facilitate candid, peer-driven discussions that help leaders become the strategic “Change Architects” their organizations require.