Kong Inc. has appointed Chirag Shah as chief financial officer of the company.
Upon assuming his new role, the executive will be tasked with helping the cloud connectivity company meet rising global demand for cloud-native API connectivity solutions, a Kong press release stated.
“Through true innovation in API and microservices connectivity, Kong is achieving more and more prominence in today’s cloud-native world with each passing day,” Shah said, according to the release. “I’m inspired by what Augusto and Marco have achieved to date, and am elated to join them and the rest of the team at Kong to build upon the company’s tremendous momentum and maximize its potential in one of the fastest-growing segments in technology.”
The company hopes to continue servicing its clients, making billions of transactions each day, according to the release.
“Chirag is a builder of high integrity. His operational experience as a public company CFO and GM will be a tremendous asset to Kong’s team and instrumental in helping us scale to new heights in the year to come,” CEO and co-founder of Kong Augusto Marietti said, according to the release. “He joined Cornerstone OnDemand when it was still a startup, led it through seismic growth and helped it establish market leadership as a mature company approaching $1 billion in revenue. At Cornerstone, Chirag not only mastered the CFO role but also business and go-to-market strategy, and we’re thrilled to welcome him to the Kong crew and mission.”
Kong has garnered nearly 500 enterprise customers and 400 employees across 30 countries, according to the release.
"Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh," Kong officials said, per the release. "By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications."