DigitalOcean hires three executives amid AI customer growth
DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. (NYSE: DOCN) announced the appointment of three executives to its leadership team as the cloud computing company targets growth in artificial intelligence services.
The company named Kevin Van Gundy as chief revenue officer, Leo Leung as chief marketing officer, and Brady Mickelsen as chief legal and administrative officer. The appointments follow DigitalOcean's recent introduction of what it calls its AI-Native Cloud platform.
DigitalOcean reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $257.9 million, representing a 22% increase from the prior year. The company said annual run-rate revenue from AI customers grew 221% year-over-year to $170 million, while revenue from customers spending more than $1 million annually increased 179% to $183 million.
Van Gundy joins from Hypermode, where he served as chief executive officer. He previously held the chief operating officer role at Vercel, where the company said he helped scale revenue more than 50 times over four years. He also worked at Domino Data Lab, Tray.ai, and Neo4j.
Leung comes from Google Cloud, where he worked on AI infrastructure and launched custom AI chips. He previously held marketing leadership positions at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and EMC.
Mickelsen was most recently chief legal officer at Tanium. He previously served as general counsel at C3.ai and held legal leadership roles at TriNet and Oracle.
The company said 81% of AI customer revenue in the first quarter came from inference services and core cloud rather than bare-metal GPU rental. DigitalOcean's platform includes GPU and CPU infrastructure, cloud services, and managed agent orchestration capabilities.
