Summary
Al Cole is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on product innovator with over three decades of experience building and scaling global professional services and subscription product lines from startup through IPO. As Global VP of Professional Services at Redis and now Kong, he has repeatedly transformed services organizations into profitable, repeatable businesses—designing subscriber maturity models, service playbooks, and developer tools that accelerated time-to-value and drove sustained revenue growth. He blends deep engineering chops (authoring full-stack tooling like Redis App Studio and APAT) with P&L leadership, sales collaboration, and operational rigor across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. A founder at heart, he has launched consulting practices and productized services—often inventing pragmatic analytics and search solutions for complex enterprise problems. Based in New Hampshire, he pairs a relentless focus on customer outcomes with a knack for turning technical prototypes into commercial offerings.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Marlborough High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology