CData Software has appointed Ken Yagen as Chief Product Officer to guide product strategy and engineering as the company expands its AI-oriented connectivity platform. The announcement follows rapid growth in enterprise demand for CData’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers and its recently launched Connect AI platform, which offers governed, real-time access to more than 350 business systems.
Yagen said, “AI will fail to achieve meaningful outcomes if agents don’t understand the systems they’re acting in,” noting that CData aims to give AI agents both connectivity and system-level context to operate safely at scale. His background includes leadership roles at MuleSoft, Box, and Symphony, as well as AI-focused work at Warburg Pincus, where he guided portfolio companies through large language model adoption.
Under Yagen’s leadership, CData plans to accelerate its dual go-to-market strategy, supporting both enterprise deployments and embedded use by software providers. Organisations are using the platform to standardise connectivity across departments, while ISVs integrate CData’s capabilities directly into their products to deliver enterprise-ready AI without building new systems.
Yagen added, “The opportunity is to make CData a go-to connectivity layer—one that enterprises rely on internally and that product builders embed by default.” CEO Amit Sharma said Yagen’s depth in enterprise architecture and AI infrastructure will help strengthen CData’s position as companies scale autonomous systems across core platforms such as Salesforce, NetSuite, and SAP.