As the President and Chief Operating Officer, Dave brings over 20 years of marketing and sales management, direct sales, and technical sales support experience to BirdEye. Most recently, he was EVP of Sales and Marketing for Yext. Prior to that , Dave was CRO for Campaign Monitor and GetFeedback and spent 5 years at salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM). There he lead the top area in the commercial business unit and opened the Chicago office, adding 400 people in 2 years. Previously, Dave was VP of Sales and Marketing for PureSense Environmental, an early stage SaaS company focused on monitoring and optimizing agricultural water usage. Prior to PureSense, Dave was Vice President of Sales at Autonomy, the industry-leader in unstructured information access and legal technologies. He led the company’s sales and partner efforts in the Western US, significantly growing the sales team and revenues.Dave earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.Specialties: Cloud Computing, SMB and Start-up leadership, Marketing, Large/complex software negotiations, Technical sales, Business development.