Dynatrace appoints James McCready as VP for APAC

Security and observability platform Dynatrace, on Wednesday announced the appointment of James McCready as the vice president of APAC region. McCready is based in Singapore and will look over the company’s overall growth strategy in the region, and support customers through observability, security, and business analytics and automation solutions.

An industry veteran, McCready has over two and half decades of experience in sales management and leadership. In his last role, he served as the vice president and managing director at ServiceNow. He drove the company’s regional business strategy for growth and diversification and led the partner strategy with distributors, resellers, and global systems integrators across the region.

“Dynatrace is committed to serving the region’s customers with the best technology available, helping organisations optimise cloud costs, enhance data observability, and reduce carbon footprint. I look forward to empowering organisations across the region to drive digital transformation at scale and help teams build and operate software faster and more efficiently,” McCready said.

Before ServiceNow, McCready was Adobe’s APAC president; in his four year tenure, the company grew business by over 200%. He has also worked at EMC Corporation and Dell for over two decades in multiple senior leadership roles.

To be sure, Dynatrace on January 31 announced the acquisition of AI-powered security and compliance solutions platform Runecast. This acquisition is expected to add to Dynatrace’s contextual security protection and analytics solutions. 

“We are excited to join Dynatrace, the leader in observability and application security, to deliver a comprehensive Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that addresses two critical questions for our customers: ‘How secure are we?’ and ‘How compliant are we?’,” said  Stanimir Markov, CEO at UK-based Runecast.