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Ian Matteson

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Vice President, Americas at Starburst
📍 Denver Metropolitan Area, United States

Ian Matteson is the Vice President of the Americas at Starburst, leading enterprise software sales with a focus on data and AI. An alumnus of Southern Methodist University, he has a proven record of building and leading successful sales, marketing, and operations teams at companies like Salesforce and Delphix.

Outside of his executive role, Ian is dedicated to philanthropy, serving as a Trustee for the Russell Grinnell Memorial Trust. The trusts mission is to ensure children have the opportunity to thrive socially and intellectually in a safe and healthy environment, which he helps support through grant provisions.

Unique fact: He is a hands-on Trustee for a private trust focused on improving childrens welfare.

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Experience
28 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Americas
Job Level
Senior
Location
Denver Metropolitan Area, United States
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Enterprise AI Success
Shares content on the importance of data strategy and context management as the defining factors for successful AI implementation in large organizations.
Data Cost Optimization
He promotes solutions that reduce data infrastructure costs, highlighting how modern lakehouse architectures can cut ETL expenses and accelerate data pipelines.
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Vice President, Americas
Starburst
3-2021
Trustee
Russell Grinnell Memorial Trust
4-2020 - 6-2024
Americas Vice President, West
Delphix
7-2017 - 4-2020
Marketing Cloud Executive
Salesforce
2-2015 - 7-2017
VP Global Business Development
Demandware, a Salesforce company
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Education
BS
Southern Methodist University
Public Studies
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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