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Clayton Sammüller

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Vice President Sales, Americas at Aiven
📍 United States

Clayton Sammüller is the VP of Sales for the Americas at Aiven, specializing in data, AI, and digital transformation for industries like CPG and manufacturing. An alumnus of the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme, colleagues describe him as strategic, empathetic, and knowledgeable, with past experience at Databricks and Mulesoft.

He is a member of Pavilion, a community for growth operators, and has a hands-on interest in technology, having completed a full-stack web development program. He appears to value team culture and alignment, recently gathering with his entire company in Croatia for a strategy event.

Unique fact: Despite being a sales leader, he completed the Le Wagon bootcamp for full-stack web development.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Vice President Sales, Americas
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
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AI-Native Companies
He is focused on providing managed data infrastructure for the next generation of AI startups building RAG pipelines and agentic applications.
Open-Source Data
As a leader at Aiven, he champions using managed open-source platforms like Kafka and PostgreSQL to help enterprises modernize their data architecture.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Vice President Sales, Americas
Aiven
11-2023 - 5-2025
Sales Director UK & Northern Europe
Aiven
6-2022 - 11-2023
Strategic Account Executive
Atlan
4-2021
Member
Pavilion
3-2021 - 6-2022
Regional Sales Director
Harness
In the press

Media appearances

Fueling Startup Innovation with Aiven’s Cluster Program. Featured in Aiven Podcast
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Education
2009 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree (BCom)
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
10-2022 - 3-2023
Full Stack Web Development (London Batch #1054)
Le Wagon
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