SteelBrick CEO Godard Abel Named to Crain's Tech 50 List

CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SteelBrick, the world's fastest-growing provider of automated sales pricing and quoting software, announced that SteelBrick CEO Godard Abel was named to the Tech 50 2014 list by Crain's Business Chicago. This list includes Chicago's top technology talent as selected by the editors at Crain's Business Chicago.

According to Crain's, Abel "has made Chicago an epicenter of configure, price, quote software, a narrow but lucrative corner of the cloud-computing universe."

Previously, Abel founded and ran BigMachines, a CPQ (configure price quote) cloud software company, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2013 for more than $400 million. He is now the CEO of SteelBrick, which develops next generation CPQ software, built on the Salesforce1™ platform.

"I am delighted to be recognized by Crain's Business among the top tech talent in Chicago," said Abel. "The list includes an impressive group of entrepreneurs. It's inspiring to see so many tech entrepreneurs building great businesses in the Chicago area."

Abel adds, "At SteelBrick, we are defining and building the next generation of cloud software that drives sales and business efficiency. Applying lessons learned from more than a decade in the cloud-based CPQ sector, SteelBrick is growing rapidly by focusing on delighting customers with elegant, out-of-the-box software that is fast to deploy and easy to use."

Read Godard Abel's Tech 50 2014 profile: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140920/ISSUE02/309209996/meet-godard-abel-serial-entrepreneur

Read the full list of Crain's Top 50 2014:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/meet-chicagos-tech-50-2014

Learn more about SteelBrick and SteelBrick CPQ:
www.steelbrick.com.

About SteelBrick

SteelBrick is the world's fastest-growing provider of automated sales pricing and quoting software, providing easy-to-use Configure Price Quote (CPQ) apps for high-growth customers. SteelBrick CPQ is 100% native on the Salesforce platform, so users can create accurate and professional sales quotes quickly and error-free, without leaving the Sales Cloud. Unlike other CPQ solutions that can take a year or more to go live, SteelBrick provides out-of-the-box CPQ that simply works, with most customer implementations completed in just a few weeks. Many high-growth companies use and rely on SteelBrick CPQ including Cloudera, HootSuite, Nutanix and Nimble Storage.  For more, go to www.steelbrick.com.

SOURCE SteelBrick