Joe Lewendon

Rejoined Pure Storage in a newly created role to lead executive hiring across EMEA and LATAM, focused on Go-To-Market (GTM) leadership. My mission is to identify and attract transformational leaders who elevate our sales teams, accelerate our enterprise growth, and bring Pure’s industry-first Data Platform strategy to life — a strategy consistently backed by world-class NPS scores.

Independent executive search, talent advisory, and fractional recruiting services. Projects included a full team-lift recruitment initiative for a tier-one enterprise technology vendor. Through OEG, I also partnered with recruitment firms to deliver sourcing and talent mapping support across a variety of senior commercial roles in both the UK and US markets.

Led GTM Talent Acquisition strategy and execution for EMEA at Kong Inc., with a focus on hiring Enterprise and Commercial sales talent, as well as regional leadership roles. Though my time at Kong was shorter than planned due to a temporary scaling back of hiring, I remain proud of the impact made — and it’s great to see the business building momentum again.

I joined Pure Storage during its hyper-growth phase — a 300-person, single-product, pre-IPO startup — and left a publicly traded, global data platform company with over 5,000 employees, 11,000 customers, and the industry's highest customer NPS. Over that journey, I scaled from hands-on delivery — hiring ‘first boots on the ground’ and foundational sales and marketing teams in 26 countries across EMEA and APJ — to building and leading a high-performing talent acquisition function.

GS Consultants is a very long-established consultancy that works closely with the US Venture Capitalist community on emerging and next generation data storage markets. Over the last 15 years we have brought some of the most significant emerging players to Europe including, NetApp, 3Par, Commvault, Equallogic, Isilon, Data Domain and Pure Storage