ClearSlide Names Jeff Schmidt SVP Worldwide Sales
Apr 23, 2015, 09:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSlide, the leading sales engagement platform, announced the appointment of Jeff Schmidt as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Schmidt brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience building sales teams and driving revenue growth at prominent SaaS companies including WebEx, HighTail, PivotLink, and CoreMetrics.
Schmidt has joined ClearSlide to oversee all aspects of the company's sales function including its corporate, mid-market and enterprise sales teams. In recent years ClearSlide has more than doubled its client-base with leading companies like Comcast Spotlight, LinkedIn, MasterCard, Thomson Reuters and thousands of other companies. Jeff will leverage his SaaS sales leadership experience to continually improve ClearSlide's go-to-market motion and expand its successful customer base.
"Companies in all kinds of industries are leveraging ClearSlide to better engage prospects, customers, and better connect their selling and marketing approach – all of which leads to more productive and faster ways to generate revenue," said ClearSlide's COO Dustin Grosse. "We're excited to add Jeff to our leadership team with his successful history of scaling SaaS sales teams in the collaboration space."
Prior to joining ClearSlide, Schmidt was most recently HighTail's (the collaboration company previously named YouSendIt) Enterprise GM and led its global go-to-market strategy for sales, marketing, services and support. Before HighTail, Jeff was Chief Revenue Officer at PivotLink, providing its retail customers business intelligence to help make data-driven decisions. Schmidt also previously ran global sales and services for CoreMetrics, which was acquired by IBM. Jeff was also a former senior sales executive with WebEx prior to its acquisition by Cisco. At WebEx, Schmidt was responsible for more than half the $300+ million in annual recurring revenue being generate by the business.
"ClearSlide has tremendous momentum and I'm inspired by the team's passion to transform the way sellers and marketers work together to more successfully engage customers," said Schmidt. "Our customers' enthusiasm about the impact ClearSlide is having within their organizations growths with each interaction, and I'm excited to help further scale ClearSlide's success in serving customers."
About ClearSlide:
ClearSlide is the leading sales engagement platform that powers valuable, genuine business conversations and enables sales teams to close more business. ClearSlide improves customer communications (phone, email, face-to-face) by providing real-time visibility and analytics for both sellers and sales leaders. As a result, customers achieve higher seller productivity, increased sales management effectiveness, and stronger customer-facing messaging. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, ClearSlide serves thousands of customers, including Rackspace, Thomson Reuters, LinkedIn, Comcast Spotlight, and more.
The ClearSlide platform gives sales leaders insight into the real-time activity of their teams and provides deep analytics about the types of content that ultimately is most impactful with customers. For sales professionals, ClearSlide allows for easy communication with customers and prospects, whether online or in-person, using ClearSlide's web-based or mobile applications.
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