monday.com promotes Ben Barnett to lead fast-growing EMEA region

monday.com put a longtime regional operator in charge of one of its fastest-growing businesses, elevating Ben Barnett to general manager of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The move gave a clearer signal about where the work-OS company sees its next layer of growth: bigger customers, sharper regional execution and more pressure on the teams that turn strategy into revenue.

Barnett had spent five years at monday.com and, since joining in 2021, had overseen sustained growth in the UK and Ireland, the company said. That experience matters in EMEA, where monday.com said revenue rose 26% year over year in 2025 and where buying cycles often hinge on local market knowledge, procurement requirements and enterprise readiness.

The promotion also came as monday.com’s customer base and workforce scaled up quickly. The company said it had more than 250,000 customers worldwide as of Dec. 31, 2025, 4,547 customers with more than $50,000 in annual recurring revenue as of March 31, 2026, and 3,211 employees on that same date. In that kind of footprint, regional leadership is less about supervision and more about coordinating sales, partnerships, marketing and customer success so the product can land inside larger accounts and stay there.

For product and engineering teams, a stronger EMEA center of gravity usually means more pressure for multilingual workflows, admin controls, compliance features and clearer enterprise governance. For sales and customer-facing teams, it often means a tighter focus on pipeline quality and expansion inside existing accounts, especially as monday.com pushes more of its AI work platform into larger global customers.

The timing also fit monday.com’s broader financial run. The company said FY2025 revenue grew 27% year over year, fourth-quarter revenue reached $333.9 million, and customers with more than $50,000 in ARR represented 41% of total ARR. It also said first-quarter 2026 revenue was $351.3 million, up 24% from a year earlier. Those numbers point to a company that is still leaning into scale, not settling into maturity.

EMEA has become central to that plan. In 2024, monday.com said the region accounted for about 32% of total revenue in FY23, opened a Warsaw office and expanded its London presence after first opening a UK office in November 2021. A 2024 release said the London office could hold up to 150 people. By 2026, outside coverage said the EMEA region had grown to more than 2,250 employees across London, Munich, Paris, Tel Aviv and Warsaw, with the London headquarters expanded to 80,000 square feet across three floors and more than 370 employees on site.

monday.com had already created a dedicated EMEA leadership layer in 2024 by naming its first general manager for the region. Barnett’s promotion suggested the company now wants that seat filled by someone who knows both the market and the internal machinery needed to keep enterprise growth moving.