Larry Graf is based in Chicago, IL, and possesses more than 20 years of cloud-based software sales, consulting and development experience. Most recently employed as a Director of Solutions Engineering at Salesforce within the Enterprise Financial Services vertical team, Larry is a 3x Peak Performers award winner as a Solutions Engineer, and as a manager, he led a diverse team in 2022 to execute on the technical win for the largest single-year contract value deal in Salesforce history. Larry has delivered value-focused success on multi-million dollar deal cycles over a career focused exclusively on Enterprise software sales, for clients such as Edward Jones, Northern Trust, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Wells Fargo, Aon Hewitt, WW Grainger, Sprint, Discover Financial, Best Buy, Sears, FTD, Manulife, Quicken Loans, Amway, State Farm, The Finish Line, and Liberty Mutual. Prior to Salesforce, Larry's pre-sales experiences include: Senior Solutions Engineer at Kony Solutions, focusing on a robust cross-platform mobile applications development and delivery platform; and Senior Sales Engineer at Tealeaf Technology, a provider of Customer Experience Management solutions. Larry's focus for the last 17 years as a Sales Engineer was preceded by an entrepreneurial phase as President and Co-Founder of Boldface Technologies, Inc., a boutique Internet consulting and applications development firm, delivering CMS-driven websites for clients such as R.L. Polk, The Henry Ford Museum, DFCU Financial, and Detroit Metro Airport. He was previously employed as a senior technical strategist for Rootlevel, based in Detroit, and as a web developer at Digital Foundry in Tiburon, CA.Specialties: Software pre-sales, SaaS, CRM, Customer Service, Call Center technology, e-Commerce, web/mobile development, and technology consulting. I have specialized industry experience within the Financial Services sector attributable to my alignment for the last 7 years on the FinServ / Regulated Industries team at Salesforce.