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Eric Gaines

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Channel & Alliances Director, Asia Pacific at Datadog
📍 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Eric Gaines is the Channel & Alliances Director for APAC at Datadog, leveraging a Bachelor of Commerce from UNSW and extensive experience leading partner ecosystems at Elastic, MongoDB, and Pivotal. He focuses on scaling growth through partnerships and enabling the ecosystem to address cloud complexity. Colleagues describe him as an effective communicator.

He maintains a professional interest in major technology firms and global system integrators, including companies like Microsoft and Accenture, focusing on their strategic market movements and partnership models.

He champions the evolution of the partner ecosystem from traditional service delivery to strategic co-creation, especially in complex, AI-driven environments.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Channel & Alliances Director, Asia Pacific
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Partner Ecosystem Evolution
He actively discusses shifting the partner role from traditional service delivery to strategic co-creation, especially as cloud and AI complexity rises.
AI Adoption & Governance
Focuses on how observability is critical for managing AI economics and governance, positioning partners to provide guidance on technology investments and risk.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
Channel & Alliances Director, Asia Pacific
Datadog
4-2020 - 4-2024
Partner & Alliances Director, A/NZ
Elastic
3-2019 - 4-2020
Partner & Alliances Director, A/NZ
MongoDB
2-2017 - 3-2019
Partner & Alliances Director, A/NZ
Pivotal
2016 - 2017
Director, Partner Sales, HPE Software South Pacific
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
In the press

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CNQ Podcast – Eric Gaines (Channel & Alliances Director, Asia Pacific, Datadog). Featured in YouTube
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Datadog APAC channel director on the company's program .... Featured in CRN Australia
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Education
2001 - 2004
BComm
UNSW
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