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Amit Agarwal, CEO of Standard Template Labs and former President of Datadog, joins Vercel's Board of Directors

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Vercel has appointed Amit Agarwal, former President of Datadog and CEO of Standard Template Labs, to its board of directors.

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By Iberonews/Business Wire Iberonews/Business Wire | Aug 07, 2026 The product leadership expert, who helped drive Datadog's growth from its inception to its IPO, brings his extensive experience in product strategy and development to Vercel's board. - Business WireVercel, the agentic infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Amit Agarwal, former President of Datadog and founder and CEO of Standard Template Labs, an AI-first service management platform, as a new member of its board of directors. Agarwal has 25 years of experience in the enterprise software sector and has played a key role in developing companies with product-centric growth models, guiding them from their beginnings to becoming leaders in cloud software. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260806746489/es/Agarwal joined Datadog in 2012 as Chief Product Officer and was appointed President in 2022. During that period, he led product, corporate development, and commercial strategy, and the company exceeded 2.5 billion dollars in annual revenue. Throughout his 13 years at Datadog, from the company's IPO in 2019 to its consolidation as a publicly traded company, Agarwal helped make it one of the most studied benchmarks for product-led growth strategies in the enterprise software sector. He currently remains on Datadog's board...

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Executive hire

What this signalsA new leader often reviews the tools the team uses.

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Amit Agarwalmember of its board of directors
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Aug 7, 2026

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