Chad Gibbons Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Grew business 250% in Y1 with 40% CAGR over 3 years, managing 1B Euro business pipeline.• Originated and implemented Global Partner Accounts model for Nokia taking advantage of the mission critical communications growth in Transportation, Defense, Public Sector, and Energy verticals.• Created fastest growing channel to market for Nokia in Industrial markets with Private 5G and Enterprise Campus Edge through Global Systems Integrators, including publicly announced partnerships with Kyndryl, DXC, NTT, and Tech Mahindra.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Responsible for global partner development and business growth in strategic growth domains in CSP and Enterprise markets. Grew partner business 30% on an annual average growth rate.• Pioneered strategic private LTE/5G wins with GSI's network services and IIOT practices, creating indirect partner sales channels for scalable growth.• Restructured group from the bottom-up including sales strategy and operational model.

Plano, Tx

Architected and led strategic go-to-market alliance between Accenture and Nokia, increasing shareholder value with market leading systems integration and vertical industry client footprint. Regularly engaged CEO and other C-level executives in building strategic plan, achieving revenue objectives, building customer pipeline, and creation of repeatable solutions. Built business from ground up to over $100M in annual alliance sales.

Plano. Tx

Led the global alliance solutions business for Alcatel-Lucent’s next wave of strategic partnerships. Extended Alcatel-Lucent’s business footprint into new market. Launched 10 solutions to market, reducing cycle time for customer bids by 30% while expanding TAM by $200M+

Global Position

•Founding team member of Alcatel-Lucent's first Cloud-based network orchestration and virtualization platform. Created Cloud Services Practice to support new offering. Launched end-to-end solution with Hewlett-Packard.•Working with McKinsey, led strategic planning process for 3-year revenue and profitability growth of ALU's $4B global services business thru 2014. Achieved 5% contribution margin improvement

Plano, Tx

•Leader of Alcatel's IP Video platform and services business based on acquisitions from Thirdspace and iMagicTV•Led $30M business in Americas region; created portfolio and partner ecosystem; restructured team of 25 to improve efficiency and margin; and supported foundational deals with AT&T (U-Verse), Telmex, and CenturyLink•Led Alcatel to #1 IPTV market share in North America

Austin, Texas Area

•Co-founded one of first post-PC Internet Device companies. Initial clients included Acer, Virgin Media, Compaq, and Wyse. Developed business plan and helped secure $15M in funding•Part of core design team that developed initial product offering. Led creation of companies' partner ecosystem that included Lycos, Citrix, and National Semiconductor•Co-inventor of significant intellectual property protected via patents•First customer shipment 10,000 devices for Virgin Entertainment. Product offered innovations made commonplace by the iPhone/iPad and were covered by the Wall Street Journal

Hauppauge, New York