Customer Advisory Panel
Our Customer Advisory Panel is a valuable network of individuals that have worked with SalesRamp previously. We meet with them on a regular basis to discuss best practices for delivering our Inside Sales and Market Research services. Having customers act as a sounding board allows us to stay abreast of the current challenges that face sales and marketing executives, and to tailor our services to address these challenges.
Richard Nieset, CEO, FusionOps
Richard Nieset is CEO at FusionOps and brings over 25 years of experience selling and marketing hardware, database and software technology at start ups through large scale enterprises. Prior to joining FusionOps, Richard was Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Helpstream, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of an innovative, community-driven customer service application. Prior to HelpStream, he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services for KNOVA (KNVA). He joined the company shortly after its founding and helped grow it into a global, publically traded organization serving the Fortune 500.
Before Knova, as an EVP and member of the original start-up team at Agile Software (AGIL), a leading provider of Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions, Richard helped develop the go-to-market strategies that led to Agile's dominance in the industry. Richard has also served as Executive Vice President of Operations for Rexcom Systems, and has held progressively senior executive management positions at several high tech companies such as Gould Systems Engineering Labs, and Perkin Elmer Data Systems. Richard has a BA in Business from the University of Phoenix.
Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Vance Lee, Inside Sales Manager, Electric Cloud
Vance Lee, Director of Sales Development, has over 15 years of successfully building and scaling highly productive sales development functions within companies such as KNOVA Inc, Teros, Nimsoft, and Alarm Point. Vance is an active member in the Bay Area Telebusiness Alliance Group and has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Fresno State University.
Doug Sechrist, VP Demand Generation, Eloqua
Doug is a dynamic marketing executive with results-oriented attitude, proven history of performance and a passion for building marketing teams focused on increasing their contribution to the sales pipeline. With over 15 years high-tech experience covering enterprise software, SAAS, and data networking companies, Doug has extensive experience leading marketing teams, implementing marketing automation, deploying proven lead management and conversion processes and building pipeline through various online and offline marketing channels.
Doug is currently the Vice President of Demand Generation at Eloqua, the leader in marketing automation software. At Eloqua, Doug oversees the company's field marketing, sales development, marketing operations and events teams. He is responsible for driving pipeline growth in support of the company's revenue objectives. This includes designing and implementing best practice systems, infrastructure and process, measurement and dashboards, predictive analytics and marketing campaign and event execution. Prior to Eloqua, Doug held Corporate and Field Marketing positions at Taleo, ZANTAZ, an Autonomy Company, Intira Corporation, and Ascend Communications.
