Macey previously served as sales director at Platfora. He has also worked with companies including YarcData, MicroStrategy amd Netezza.

Datameer, a provider of self-service big data analytics for Hadoop, is looking to expand having recently secured $19m in funding.

“Mike comes to us with an impressive track record of proven leadership in mentoring and managing other executives,” said Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer.

“With our plans to expand aggressively, Mike is exactly the type of decisive, experienced leader Datameer needs to help us achieve our vision of making the world a better place by democratizing data analytics.”