# Ronen Schwartz

> Ronen Schwartz is the CEO of K2view, an Israeli-founded data product company at the forefront of enterprise AI readiness. With 25 years in the data industry — including a 14-year run at Informatica and a stint at NetApp where he grew the cloud storage business 12-fold to dominate a $600M division — Schwartz took the helm at K2view in December 2023. He is focused on turning fragmented enterprise data into live, governed data products that power agentic AI applications at scale, positioning K2view as the infrastructure layer that makes real-time AI not just possible, but production-ready.

- **Role:** CEO at K2view
- **Organizations:** K2view, NetApp, Informatica, Itemfield
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** MBA in IT and Business Development, Tel Aviv University, BSc in Information Technology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Grew NetApp's cloud storage division 12-fold to represent the majority of its $600M cloud business, Built multiple Informatica business lines to hundreds of millions in annual revenue over 14 years, Led K2view to three consecutive Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary recognitions (2023, 2024, 2025) for Data Integration Tools

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — VP of Operations at Itemfield
- **~2009-2023** — 14-year tenure at Informatica — held multiple senior executive roles including EVP of Technology & Ecosystem and SVP/GM of Informatica Cloud; led data integration, data catalog, and iPaaS business lines to hundreds of millions in annual revenue
- **2021** — Speaking at DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud as NetApp SVP, discussing cloud storage strategy
- **Pre-2023** — SVP and General Manager of Cloud Storage at NetApp — grew division 12-fold to represent the majority of the $600M cloud business
- **December 2023** — Appointed CEO of K2view, succeeding co-founder Achi Rotem who became President
- **April 2024** — Represented K2view at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, speaking on GenAI data readiness
- **June 2025** — Secured $15M growth financing from Trinity Capital for agentic AI infrastructure expansion
- **December 2025** — K2view recognized as Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools for third consecutive year
- **January 2026** — Published 'Agentic AI is easy to demo, hard to run in production' — articulating K2view's production-AI thesis
- **March 2026** — Launched AI Context Optimizer, bringing economic governance to agentic AI context delivery

## Achievements

- Grew NetApp's cloud storage division 12-fold to represent the majority of its $600M cloud business
- Built multiple Informatica business lines to hundreds of millions in annual revenue over 14 years
- Led K2view to three consecutive Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary recognitions (2023, 2024, 2025) for Data Integration Tools
- Secured $15M growth round from Trinity Capital in June 2025
- Recognized as a Leader in SPARK Matrix Enterprise Data Fabric Q3 2025 by QKS Group
- Forged strategic hyperscaler and analytics partnerships at scale across multiple companies

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — K2view launched AI Context Optimizer, bringing cost governance and precision to agentic AI context delivery
- **2026-03** — Schwartz published 'Why today's data architectures can't support operational AI'
- **2026-02** — Published 'Why context breaks before models do' on agentic AI failures in production
- **2026-01** — Published 'Agentic AI is easy to demo, hard to run in production'
- **2025-12** — K2view named Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools for third consecutive year
- **2025-06** — K2view secured $15M in growth financing from Trinity Capital to scale agentic AI infrastructure

## Links

- Website: https://k2view.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronenschwartz
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/K2View
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__15SqbdOo
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/K2View/

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Last updated: 2026-05-15