Patrick Van Deven
TLDR
Patrick Van Deven is CEO of VaultSpeed since January 2025, previously partner at Fortino Capital, with almost forty years across enterprise software at SAP, SAS, and C3.ai.
Overview
Patrick leads VaultSpeed's transition from deterministic data vault automation to an agentic framework where AI agents build and maintain enterprise data warehouses, with humans reviewing and approving every decision.
Background
Patrick started in software at 22, coding and selling his first application. Studied library sciences, then software engineering, then MBA.
His career arc: ten years in a 1990s tech startup, fifteen years at SAS leading operations (including data mining in its early days), Managing Director at SAP Belgium and SAP Netherlands, then C3.ai alongside Tom Siebel pre-IPO, then Partner at Fortino Capital during the pandemic.
At Fortino Capital he invested in VaultSpeed at the 2021 seed round and became chairman. After the 2023 Series A led by Octopus Ventures, he joined the founding team as CEO in January 2025.
Focus
- Product direction for VaultSpeed's agentic data framework
- Go-to-market for AI-driven data warehouse automation
- Enterprise sales across financial services, insurance, telecom, and manufacturing
- Translating complex technical ideas for buyers and boards
Perspective
Patrick has watched the entire arc from mainframes through client-server, web, cloud, and now AI. His pattern read: every generation of tooling automates the previous generation's manual work, but the real value is always in the layer of understanding above the automation. That is what VaultSpeed's knowledge graph is designed to capture.
Personal
Reads one novel per week. Never business books. Treats it as the unplug.
Contact
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patrickvandeven
- Email: patrick.vandeven@VaultSpeed.com