David Lehman — CEO
As the President and Chief Operating Officer, Dave brings over 20 years of marketing and sales management, direct sales, and technical sales support experience to BirdEye. Most recently, he was EVP of Sales and Marketing for Yext. Prior to that , Dave was CRO for Campaign Monitor and GetFeedback and spent 5 years at salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM). There he lead the top area in the commercial business unit and opened the Chicago office, adding 400 people in 2 years. Previously, Dave was VP of Sales and Marketing for PureSense Environmental, an early stage SaaS company focused on monitoring and optimizing agricultural water usage. Prior to PureSense, Dave was Vice President of Sales at Autonomy, the industry-leader in unstructured information access and legal technologies. He led the company’s sales and partner efforts in the Western US, significantly growing the sales team and revenues. Dave earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Specialties: Cloud Computing, SMB and Start-up leadership, Marketing, Large/complex software negotiations, Technical sales, Business development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales executive with extensive experience in revenue generation and team leadership.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 28 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Sales Management
- Business Development
- Technical Sales
Career Highlights
- Over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing leadership.
- Successfully opened and expanded the Chicago office at Salesforce.
- Led revenue generation strategies at multiple high-growth SaaS companies.
Work Experience
Birdeye
President & Chief Operating Officer (6 yrs 5 mos)
Yext
EVP, Global Field Operations (4 mos)
EVP, Commercial Business Unit (1 yr 8 mos)
SV Academy
Board Advisor (6 yrs 6 mos)
Campaign Monitor
Chief Revenue Officer (1 yr 3 mos)
Senior Vice President of Sales (1 yr 4 mos)
Captora
Senior Vice President of Sales (4 mos)
salesforce.com
Vice President Co-Primes - Commercial Sales (7 mos)
Area Vice President - Corporate Sales (2 yrs 2 mos)
Regional Vice President - Corporate Sales (1 yr 10 mos)
Playworks
Board Member (Chicago) (7 mos)
PureSense
Vice President of Sales and Marketing (4 mos)
Autonomy
VP of Sales, Western US (5 yrs 6 mos)
Dist. Sales Manager (4 yrs)
Alphablox
Sr Systems Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)
thinkXML
Field Sales Engineer (1 yr)
Prescient Technologies
Sr Systems Engineer (1 yr)
Boeing
Process Development Engineer (2 yrs)
Education
BS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
at Choate Rosemary Hall