Christopher Pinkston

Sales Executive

Austin, Texas, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in enterprise account management.
  • Strong expertise in customer engagement and retention strategies.
  • Leadership experience in driving sales teams towards success.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with a focus on enterprise account management.

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Skills

Other Skills

Customer EngagementCustomer SatisfactionAccount ManagementUser ExperienceProblem SolvingClient Relationship BuildingLeadershipBuilding RelationshipsCustomer ServiceCRMSocial Media MarketingMarketing CommunicationsSocial NetworkingNegotiationSocial Media

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Harness

2 roles

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Promoted

Jul 2025Mar 2026 · 8 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Product Sales Specialist

Jun 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Austin, Texas, United States

Split (acquired by harness)

2 roles

Director of Enterprise and Commercial Sales

Feb 2024Jun 2024 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Director of Commercial Sales

Oct 2023Apr 2024 · 6 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Harness

Senior Manager, Commercial Sales

Oct 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States

Thousandeyes (part of cisco)

Manager, Commercial Sales

Jan 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Spanning cloud apps

2 roles

Sales Manager

May 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

Senior Sales Engineer

Aug 2017May 2018 · 9 mos

Ustudio

Solutions Architect

Jan 2017Aug 2017 · 7 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Spanning cloud apps

2 roles

Sales Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Inside Sales Representative

Jul 2013Jan 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

Security card services, llc.

Regional Account Manager

Dec 2012Jul 2013 · 7 mos · Austin, TX

  • Responsible for maintaining and growing a merchant services portfolio for American Bank of Texas to generate non-interest residual income for the bank and company.
  • Actively acquired new customers via sales of various credit card processing products, services, and equipment via phone, email and face-to-face meetings.
  • Developed deep relationships with bankers and lenders to generate leads for new and current bank clients
  • Enhanced and strengthened bank and client relationships by offering merchant services on behalf of the bank in addition to other commercial banking services allowing merchants to bring all business finances under the bank’s suite of services
  • Provided post sale implementation of products/services and offered full time, local support and service to resolve issues for new and existing merchants to ensure customer retention
  • Completed a rigorous, multi-month sales training program to become an expert in the often-confusing credit card processing industry

Schoolmessenger

Customer Engagement Manager, Anonymous Communications

Sep 2011Oct 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Austin, TX

  • Served as Customer Engagement Manager to maximize customer retention, satisfaction, and advocacy for the Anonymous Communications product line.
  • Performed trainings/launches, conducting advanced product support and performed proactive account "tune ups"
  • Negotiated complex renewal contracts and resolved escalated scenarios of customer dissatisfaction and retention risk in support of the Account Management team.
  • Served as Account Manager for highest value accounts and was directly responsible for their renewal booking
  • Represented the company at key tradeshows, which served as best venue for concentrated customer interaction
  • Served as key input in the product management process by synthesizing customer feedback for use in developing requirements and business cases

Ancomm, inc.

2 roles

Director of Customer Engagement

Promoted

Jan 2009Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Account Manager

Sep 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

Education

University of Mississippi

B.A. — Biological Sciences

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Jackson Preparatory School

High School Diploma

Jan 2001Jan 2003

Jackson Academy

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