Navam Welihinda

Chief Financial Officer

San Mateo, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Chief Financial Officer at Elastic
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform, the development platform used by thousands of companies.

  • Chief Financial Officer at Grammarly
    Sep 2024 - Feb 2025 · 6 mos

  • HashiCorp (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Chief Financial Officer
      Feb 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      HashiCorp (NASDAQ: HCP) is a multi-cloud infrastructure automation company. HashiCorp’s infrastructure products underpin the most important applications for thousands of companies, who use HashiCorp to provision, secure, connect and run cloud infrastructure. HashiCorp was founded in 2012, and completed its successful Initial Public Offering in December 2021.

    • Vice President, Finance
      Feb 2017 - Feb 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Head of Finance, Compose at IBM
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Compose’s database-as-a-service offerings are a rapidly growing part of IBM’s Cloud Platform initiatives dedicated to making applications work across on-premise, public, and private cloud environments among developer teams and large enterprises. Responsible for divisional FP&A, accounting, and finance integration. Key responsibilities include: - delivery of monthly financial reports, and financial insights to Compose’s senior leadership - transition, and integration of finance, accounting, procurement, equity, and HR functions into IBM - leading, and maintaining the integrity of the Compose Accounting close

  • VP Finance at Compose.io (Acquired by IBM)
    May 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Compose offers multiple open-source databases-as-a-service (PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, RethinkDB, MongoDB, etcd, and RabbitMQ) to software developers. Responsible for finance, accounting, business operations, legal, and HR. Key accomplishments include: - hiring and onboarding internal, and outsourced accounting teams - developing and maintaining Compose’s operating model used for Annual planning, and monthly forecasting - spearheading due-diligence gathering, disclosure schedules, legal docs, and equity returns/conversion models for the Compose acquisition - raising debt capital, and pitching equity investors