Vp Marketing & Business Development
San Francisco, California, Us
Company's first non-founder VP responsible for commercializing Apollo open source technologies for GraphQL. Built and oversaw revenue, marketing, commercial operations, customer success, and partnership functions. Apollo is the GraphQL open source leader and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Y Combinator.Key accomplishments:- Launched company's commercial products and developer support solutions. Grew footprint to 1,000s of customers worldwide. Notable customers include Airbnb, Netflix, Microsoft, Walmart, CNBC, BMW, Ticketmaster, Github, OpenTable, Major League Soccer, Heroku, and SurveyMonkey. - Closed company's first major enterprise customer (multiple six-figure ARR)- Delivered world's first and largest GraphQL developer conferences to sold-out audiences of 800+ developers (GraphQL Summit 2016, 2017, and 2018)