David Lehman

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales executive with extensive experience in revenue generation and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementBusiness DevelopmentTechnical Sales

Other Skills

Go-to-Market functionsSalesMarketingCustomer successPartnershipsRevenue generationDemand generationField marketingSales developmentOperationsEnablementDirect salesPipeline managementRevenueTeam building

About

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.

Experience

28 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Birdeye

President & Chief Operating Officer

Dec 2019Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead all Go-to-Market functions, including sales, marketing, customer success, business development and partnerships.
Go-to-Market functionsSalesMarketingCustomer successBusiness developmentPartnerships+2

Yext

2 roles

EVP, Global Field Operations

May 2019Sep 2019 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead all strategic support functions of revenue generation, including demand generation, field marketing, pipeline, sales development, operations, and enablement.
Revenue generationDemand generationField marketingSales developmentOperationsEnablement+2

EVP, Commercial Business Unit

Sep 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead global direct sales for CBU (Mid-Market and SMB), as well as demand generation, pipeline, and sales development.
Direct salesDemand generationPipeline managementSales developmentSales ManagementBusiness Development

Sv academy

Board Advisor

Jan 2017Jul 2023 · 6 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Campaign monitor

2 roles

Chief Revenue Officer

Promoted

May 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Executive in charge of Sales, Revenue, Partnerships and Business Development for Campaign Monitor and GetFeedback. Building teams for direct sales, inside sales, partner management, sales engineering, sales enablement, agency relations and GetFeedback.
SalesRevenuePartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentTeam buildingSales Management

Senior Vice President of Sales

Jan 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Captora

Senior Vice President of Sales

Sep 2014Jan 2015 · 4 mos · Mt. View, CA

  • Head of Sales, Sales Dev and Customer Success. Built foundation for world class organization to launch Captora and help Marketers capture new buyers before the competition.
SalesSales DevelopmentCustomer SuccessSales Management

Salesforce.com

3 roles

Vice President Co-Primes - Commercial Sales

Feb 2014Sep 2014 · 7 mos

  • Ran national sales for Service Cloud, Platform, Data.com and Desk.com. Designed and deployed the Co-Prime model, systems and process for the Commercial Sales business unit.
SalesService CloudPlatformData.comDesk.comSales Management

Area Vice President - Corporate Sales

Promoted

Nov 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Started and lead the Chicago Hub. Put 400 people into the regional office in 2 years. Rated #1 Technology company and #5 Mid-Size Company to work for in Chicago. Run sales for Commercial business in the Central Area. Club: 2011 (Peak), 2012 (Presidents), 2013 (Peak)
SalesCommercial businessSales Management

Regional Vice President - Corporate Sales

Dec 2009Oct 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Lead team in the South East. Club: 2010 (Presidents + Top Word-Wide RVP)
SalesSales Management

Playworks

Board Member (Chicago)

Jul 2013Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that transforms schools by providing play and physical activity at recess and throughout the school day. With a full-time coach on-site at each partner school, our program restores valuable teaching time, reduces bullying, increases physical activity and improves the learning environment. In Chicago we are bringing the power of play to 15 schools in the CPS district, serving nearly 8,000 students. Playworks is well on the way to achieving its goal of providing 20,000 low-income Chicago area children the chance to play and learn in safe, nurturing environments.

Puresense

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Jul 2009Nov 2009 · 4 mos · Oakland, CA

  • As a member of the executive team, lead all sales and customer facing activities. With over 80% of the world’s available freshwater supply going to agriculture, PureSense Environmental helps farmers optimize their water usage.

Autonomy

2 roles

VP of Sales, Western US

Jan 2004Jul 2009 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Led all direct sales activity for the Western US enterprise team. Autonomy (acquired by HP) platform understands concepts in unstructured and structured data including emails, web pages, and video, and uses this understanding to deliver Enterprise Search, Information Governance, eDiscovery, and Customer Interaction solutions.
SalesCustomer facing activitiesSales Management

Dist. Sales Manager

Jan 2004Jan 2008 · 4 yrs

  • Led sales for all major deals in New York and California. Salesman of the Year (2005)
Direct salesEnterprise SearchInformation GovernanceSales Management

Alphablox

Sr Systems Engineer

Jan 2002Dec 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mt. View, CA

  • Technical lead on all sales opportunities, with a specific focus on West Coast accounts. Led all demonstrations to top-level executives and technical audiences. Alphablox (acquired by IBM) was an early Business Intelligence company, providing them a real-time view of financial and customer data.
SalesSales Management

Thinkxml

Field Sales Engineer

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • SE for banking vertical. Acted as liaison between external customers and development team. thinkXML’s Software used a transaction-processing server to bridge the gap between multiple Internet devices (e.g., PCs, PDAs, cell phones), databases and enterprise systems.
Technical sales supportBusiness IntelligenceTechnical Sales

Prescient technologies

Sr Systems Engineer

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Managed implementation projects to optimize the software. Wrote specifications for the newest version of the product, supporting marketing and development teams. Prescient focused on engineering quality solutions for major aerospace and automotive companies and their suppliers.
Sales EngineeringTechnical Sales

Boeing

Process Development Engineer

Jan 1997Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

  • Evaluated new tools supporting advanced development techniques for new space launch vehicles. Developed software to automate and optimize the arrangement of payloads in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle.
Implementation projectsSoftware optimizationTechnical Sales

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1993Jan 1997

Choate Rosemary Hall

Jan 1991Jan 1993

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