Dennis Woodside

CEO

Menlo Park, California, United States29 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Dropbox's IPO raising ~$1B.
Grew Impossible Foods revenue significantly.
Built user-friendly software for 67,000 companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Food Technology executive with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

ManagementProduct ManagementBusiness StrategySales Strategy

Other Skills

Mergers & AcquisitionsStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyMobile DevicesBusiness DevelopmentE-commerceAnalyticsEntrepreneurship

About

My role as CEO is to lead the company making software that's easy and accessible to businesses everywhere. I've always been involved in growth companies that have challenged the status quo and delivered amazing experiences for their customers. Google, Dropbox, Impossible Foods and now Freshworks. In my spare time I bike, run and swim. I live with my wife in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our kids are "adulting", sort of.

Experience

Freshworks

CEO, President

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Mateo, California, United States

Work alongside our founder to build and distribute high value, easy to use software for sales, marketing, IT and customer support teams in 67,000 companies.

Mergers & AcquisitionsManagementStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyProduct Management+6

Impossible foods

President

Mar 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Redwood City, CA

Broadened product portfolio, stabilized and scaled the supply chain and rapidly expanded distribution for innovative, mission driven plant-based meat company. Grew revenue from low $10s of millions to mid $100s of millions over 3.5 years.

Mergers & AcquisitionsManagementStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyProduct Management+6

Servicenow

Member Board Of Directors

Feb 2018 – Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Dropbox

Chief Operating Officer

Apr 2014 – Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Helped founding team scale Dropbox from ~$300M to $1.4B in revenue over 4.5 years. Helped take Dropbox public in an IPO on the Nasdaq in March 2018 that raised ~$1B. Accountable for all commercial & customer facing teams (marketing, sales, biz dev), overall GTM strategy, People Team and other functions.

Mergers & AcquisitionsManagementStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyProduct Management+6

Motorola mobility (under google ownership)

Chief Executive Officer

May 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale

Led Motorola Mobility, an $8B mobile device and cable infrastructure business, while owned by Google. Recruited new management team and reset product and go-to-market strategy. Re-established growth in the mobile device business and sold it to Lenovo.

Mergers & AcquisitionsManagementStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyProduct Management+6

Google

4 roles

President, Americas & Senior Vice President, Google

Promoted

Mar 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Led Google's field sales operations in North and South America, selling all ad products (AdWords, Google Content Network, Mobile Ads, YouTube, etc). Revenue in the Americas grew from ~$10 billion to ~$17 billion during my tenure. Our Latin American operations exceeded $1 billion in revenue. Our team launched new offices in Columbia, Peru, Chile and Central America.

Mergers & AcquisitionsManagementStrategic PartnershipsStart-upsStrategyProduct Management+7

Vice President, United Kingdom, Benelux & Ireland

Oct 2006 – Mar 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Leader of Google's field sales operations in the UK, Benelux & Ireland. Responsible for ~$1 billion in advertising sales revenue, growing at high double digit rates.

Managing Director, EMEA Emerging Markets

Promoted

Jun 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

Established Google's field presence in Russia, Central Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Opened 10 field offices. Recruited leadership and teams. Hired "scouts" to help improve Google's services in several countries (e.g., Nigeria).

Director, Business Operations

Oct 2003 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

Mckinsey & company

Associate Principal

Jun 1998 – Nov 2003 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Los Angeles, California and Seoul, South Korea

Consulted to teams in the media and technology industries in the US and Latin America. My work centered on helping established companies compete in the then-emerging internet arena.