Ken Cheney

Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, appointed Ken Cheney as the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Cheney will lead Chef’s global marketing strategies including brand, product marketing, corporate communications and go-to-market execution. Cheney has spent three years on Chef’s leadership team as the company’s vice president of business development and product marketing, most recently overseeing the product launches of Chef’s flagship product, Chef Automate, Habitat, an open source product for application automation, and InSpec, an open source product for encoding compliance policy. 

Cheney has more than 20 years of IT industry experience spanning marketing, product, business development, corporate development, and sales in both early-stage and mature businesses. During his three years at Chef, Cheney built go-to-market partnerships with AWS, HPE, Google and Microsoft, opening up multi-million dollar revenue streams for Chef’s business. He also identified and led Chef’s two acquisitions — Tower3 in 2014 and VulcanoSec in 2015–– expanding the company’s product portfolio to include analytics and compliance respectively. Prior to Chef, Cheney held executive positions at multi-channel messaging startup Message Bus, open source storage software provider Likewise, and HP Software.