# Brooks Borcherding

> Brooks Borcherding is a veteran enterprise technology executive and the CEO and a director of Pythian. Across roles at Andersen Consulting, Avaya, Cisco, Navisite, Time Warner Cable, Datto, LiveAction, Cloudreach, Atos, and Pythian, his career has followed successive shifts in how companies communicate, build infrastructure, protect data, and adopt cloud and AI. He has helped lead three company transactions and now argues that practical AI adoption begins with clean data, employee enablement, and operational change.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer and Director at Pythian
- **Organizations:** Pythian, Cloudreach, Atos, LiveAction, Datto, Cloud Advisory Services, Time Warner Cable, Navisite, Cisco, Avaya, Andersen Consulting
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- **Known for:** Helped navigate three company transactions: Navisite to Time Warner Cable, Datto to Vista Equity Partners, and Cloudreach to Atos., Is credited in a 2025 CRN profile with helping develop and productize an early infrastructure-as-a-service offering at Navisite in 2009., Led Cloudreach when Atos agreed to acquire it; at announcement, Cloudreach had more than 600 employees and expected approximately EUR100 million in 2021 revenue.

## Career timeline

- **1988-1992** — Worked as a senior information technology consultant at Andersen Consulting.
- **1992-2005** — Held information technology, global account, and EMEA leadership roles at Avaya and its predecessor organization.
- **2005-2009** — Held director-level roles at Cisco, including work in strategy, planning, operations, and enterprise sales.
- **2009-2013** — Joined Navisite, became president and CEO, and led the company through its 2011 sale to Time Warner Cable.
- **2013-2015** — Served as senior vice president of enterprise and carrier sales at Time Warner Cable.
- **2015** — Founded and led Cloud Advisory Services.
- **2015-2018** — Served as chief revenue officer at Datto and participated in its 2017 sale to Vista Equity Partners.
- **2018-2019** — Joined LiveAction as president and subsequently served as CEO.
- **2019-2023** — Joined Cloudreach as COO, became CEO, and led the company through its sale to Atos, announced in 2021 and completed in 2022.
- **2024-present** — Serves as chief executive officer and a director of Pythian.

## Achievements

- Helped navigate three company transactions: Navisite to Time Warner Cable, Datto to Vista Equity Partners, and Cloudreach to Atos.
- Is credited in a 2025 CRN profile with helping develop and productize an early infrastructure-as-a-service offering at Navisite in 2009.
- Led Cloudreach when Atos agreed to acquire it; at announcement, Cloudreach had more than 600 employees and expected approximately EUR100 million in 2021 revenue.
- Led Pythian when it received the 2025 Google Cloud Databases Partner of the Year award for North America.
- Reported 175% year-over-year growth in Pythian's Google Workspace services in a 2026 CRN interview.
- Was named a finalist for CRN's 2025 Ally of the Year recognition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Said Pythian's Google Workspace services grew 175% year over year and described a company-wide AI-first operating push using Gemini and employee-built agents.
- **2025-04** — Pythian received the 2025 Google Cloud Databases Partner of the Year award for North America; Borcherding discussed accelerating customer demand for Gemini and Agentspace services.
- **2025-04** — Said Pythian had generated more than 20 Agentspace opportunities in roughly one month amid growing interest in enterprise search and agentic AI.
- **2025-01** — Commented that bundling Gemini with Workspace would broaden access and create more demand for AI-related services and adoption work.
- **2024-06** — Appointed chief executive officer and a director of Pythian.

## Links

- Website: https://www.pythian.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/borcherding/

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Last updated: 2026-08-25