CloudBolt Appoints Alexander Thomson CEO and Patricia Tantow CMO as Company Accelerates AI-Era Infrastructure Strategy

New leadership to focus on helping enterprises and service providers govern, automate and optimize costs of cloud, Kubernetes and AI infrastructure

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CloudBolt Software, a recognized leader in cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Alexander Thomson as chief executive officer and Patricia Tantow as chief marketing officer. The appointments come as the company enters its next phase of growth amid rapidly increasing enterprise demand for visibility, governance and optimization across cloud, Kubernetes and AI infrastructure. Thomson succeeds Rod Squires, who has moved to CloudBolt’s board.

"I’ve worked with Alex at several Insight portfolio companies and have seen firsthand how he builds go-to-market organizations that deliver exceptional business value," said Thomas Krane, Managing Director at Insight Partners. "CloudBolt has spent the past year modernizing its cloud management platform for increasingly complex hybrid cloud and AI environments, integrating StormForge’s Kubernetes and GPU optimization capabilities, and expanding the ways customers can manage and optimize their cloud environments. Both Alex and Patricia have the experience to build on that foundation and accelerate the company’s growth. We are also grateful to Rod for his leadership and are pleased he'll stay close to the business as a board member."

Thomson joins CloudBolt from PlexTrac, an AI-powered exposure management and pentest reporting platform. As chief operating officer, he oversaw global sales, marketing, customer success, strategy and business operations, and led the company through its 2026 acquisition by Brinqa. Before PlexTrac, he was vice president of sales at Quantum Metric, whose ARR grew from $25 million to $100 million during his tenure. Earlier, he held sales leadership roles at N2W Software, GFI Software and LogicNow, which was acquired by SolarWinds.

"In nearly every customer conversation I’ve had since joining, AI is part of the infrastructure plan,” said Thomson. "The teams responsible for it are asking the same questions they’ve always asked about cloud: What are we running, who controls it, and what is it costing us? CloudBolt has spent the past year building the foundation to enable teams to answer those questions across their environments. I’m eager to bring that value to more customers as organizations weigh AI investment against the return it delivers."

Tantow also joins CloudBolt from PlexTrac, where she served as chief marketing officer through its acquisition by Brinqa and worked alongside Thomson. She was previously chief marketing officer at Instaclustr through its acquisition by NetApp in 2022, vice president of marketing at CIQ, and vice president of marketing at Expanse, which was later acquired by Palo Alto Networks.

"Organizations are scaling AI faster than they can see what it's running or what it's costing them," said Tantow. "CloudBolt has the technology, the expertise and the conviction to cut through that complexity and eliminate the waste. I look forward to bringing that clarity to customers to help them run their AI workloads with confidence."

CloudBolt also announced changes to its board of directors. Andrew Langsam, former CEO of PlexTrac, joins as non-executive chairman; Thomson and Squires join as directors. Thomas Krane and Michael Triplett of Insight Partners continue as directors.

About CloudBolt

CloudBolt Software helps enterprises and service providers turn cloud complexity into operational advantage by bringing intelligent automation, governance, and optimization to public, private, multi-cloud and AI infrastructure. CloudBolt empowers platform engineering, IT operations, and finance teams with the insight and automation they need to run cloud environments at scale, efficiently, continuously, and with confidence. Learn more at www.cloudbolt.io.

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