# Jessica Reeves

> Jessica Reeves is the CEO and a board member of AxonIQ, the Utrecht-based company behind the Axon Framework and a unified platform for building event-driven, AI-native applications. She came up through HR and operations rather than engineering, spent roughly eight years at Anaconda where she rose to COO and helped scale the company into a $1.5B unicorn with $150M+ in ARR, and now argues that AI's lasting value will sit in its infrastructure layer - specifically in explainability, the ability to trace exactly why an intelligent system did what it did. Based in Austin, Texas, she frames event sourcing as the memory foundation that AI agents need to be auditable and trustworthy in the enterprise.

- **Role:** CEO & Board Member at AxonIQ
- **Organizations:** AxonIQ, Anaconda, ClearDATA
- **From:** South Korea
- **Nationality:** American
- **Known for:** Helped scale Anaconda from startup to a $1.5B unicorn with more than $150M in ARR., Part of the deal team that closed Anaconda's $150M+ Series C funding round., Appointed CEO and board member of AxonIQ.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Joined Anaconda, beginning an eight-year run scaling the open source and enterprise data-science company.
- **2023** — Serving as COO (and for a period interim CRO) at Anaconda; part of the core deal team that closed the $150M+ Series C, valuing the company at roughly $1.5B.
- **2025** — Publishes 'Building My Next AI Unicorn' and takes the CEO role at AxonIQ, reuniting with former Anaconda leader Barry Libert.
- **2026** — Leads AxonIQ's launch of a unified platform with a native explainability layer; publishes essays on AI explainability and event sourcing.

## Achievements

- Helped scale Anaconda from startup to a $1.5B unicorn with more than $150M in ARR.
- Part of the deal team that closed Anaconda's $150M+ Series C funding round.
- Appointed CEO and board member of AxonIQ.
- Led AxonIQ's launch of what the company calls the first unified platform with a native explainability layer.
- Public advocate for AI explainability and diverse leadership in AI infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Co-authored 'Event Sourcing in the Age of AI' with AxonIQ founder Allard Buijze.
- **2026-04** — Published 'AI Agent Explainability: Why Your Infrastructure Needs to Remember' and 'The Future is Here. It Needs Explainability.'
- **2026** — Led AxonIQ's launch of a unified platform with a native explainability layer.

## Links

- Website: https://www.axoniq.io/authors/jessica-reeves
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-reeves-b3422914/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmq4aTmDGJk

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Last updated: 2026-07-16