Virtual Customer Summit On‑Demand

Hope Simmons currently serves as Vice President of the Americas Digital Sales organization at Citrix where she is dedicated to driving digital transformation for the SMB segment, solving business challenges, and propelling scale and profitability.

Simmons has 22 years of industry experience with deep roots in technology, transformation, and customer advocacy. Her entrepreneurial mindset and passion for overcoming obstacles has been at the foundation of her success since the onset of her career. She has served in numerous leadership positions throughout her tenure at Citrix, driving transformational initiatives within Citrix Consulting, Citrix Operations, Citrix Support and, most recently, serving as COO for the Americas Sales organization.

Simmons also has a passion for giving back. In addition to helping Citrix customers realize their digital transformation goals, she is a TSIA board member who dedicates her time to helping evolve industry best practices for Subscription Sales transformation. She also launched the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in North Hollywood, CA and most recently serves as Executive Chair for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk. She secured Broward County’s top corporate sponsorship for the 2019 event and is gearing up to beat the goal in 2020…virtually!

Simmons holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management from Florida State University.

Bill, a veteran technology leader with nearly three decades of global sales and go-to-market experience, is an operating partner based in Battery’s San Francisco office. He serves as a coach and mentor for sales executives and CEOs in Battery’s portfolio, helping software companies scale through various stage of growth, effectively expand overseas and create multi-product sales platforms.

Bill’s operating experience spans key roles at fast-growing private software companies, such as Marketo and Pendo, as well as billion-dollar public enterprises such as Oracle and PeopleSoft. Before joining Battery, Bill was the chief revenue officer of Pendo, where he helped grow annual recurring revenue to nearly $100 million in three years. Prior to that he spent more than nine years at marketing-tech company Marketo. There, he held multiple roles, including EVP of worldwide sales, managing director of APAC and board director of Marketo Japan. At Marketo, Bill was the 16th employee and led the company’s sales teams through its private stages of growth to an IPO, and until the company’s 2016 acquisition by Vista Equity.

Before Marketo, Bill held senior sales roles at Avolent, BEA, PeopleSoft and Oracle. He has also been a member of the board of directors at Qvidian and advised companies including Birst, Conversica, Integrate Inc. and Node.io.

Bill holds a BS in marketing from Arizona State University and completed Harvard Business School’s strategic sales program.

Ellie Fields is the Chief Product Officer at Salesloft. Previously at Tableau and Microsoft, Ellie has deep expertise in business intelligence and analytics. In her role at SalesLoft, Ellie shapes, drives, and executes Salesloft’s product strategy amid the company’s exponential growth and rapid product expansion.

Kyle Porter is the founder and CEO of Salesloft, provider of the #1 Sales Engagement platform. Salesloft helps more than 3,000 companies, like LinkedIn, Google, Square, IBM, and Cisco, generate more revenue and deliver better experiences to their customers. Salesloft is renowned for being the most complete modern sales platform in the industry as well as for its award-winning culture. The company was recently valued above $1b and employs over 500 people globally. Salesloft was named #1 in Sales Engagement in G2 for 9 quarters in a row, 7th Fastest Growing Technology Company in North America by Deloitte, and #1 Best Place to Work in Atlanta three times.

Kyle is a fervent champion of organizational health and is focused on creating an aligned culture that celebrates the customer and encourages personal growth. Kyle is a Georgia Tech graduate who loves wakesurfing, reading, cycling, chess, and spending time with his wife April, daughter Brooklyn (6), and son Clark (3).

Frank Dale is the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Salesloft. Prior to that he was the CEO and co-founder of Costello, which was acquired by Salesloft. He has served as either CEO or COO at several investor backed software companies including Compendium, which was acquired by Oracle.

Frank is a frequent speaker about entrepreneurship, team/individual performance, go-to-market strategy, and leadership at conferences around the country.

He is a graduate of Valparaiso University where he earned a BA and an MA with a concentration in ethics and received an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Sydney Sloan has extensive global experience marketing software applications that help people communicate and collaborate more effectively. Sydney is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Salesloft and has held senior leadership and advisory roles at Adobe, Marketo and Demandbase. She is driven by a passion for discovering how companies can deliver exceptional customer experiences that align with rapidly changing expectations in an ever-changing technology landscape. Utilizing a variety of digital touchpoints and account-based strategies, she has established proven techniques for increasing customer engagement and loyalty.

Albert Rhee joined Salesloft in early 2019 as a Product Marketer and leads the product launch program while focused specifically on Analytics, Data Science, and Opportunity Management capabilities. He is a recovering electrical engineer that transitioned to product marketing at General Electric in 2015.

Sneha Subramanian, Ph.D., manages the data science team at Salesloft. A mathematician by training, she is passionate about using innovative AI/ML approaches that truly help sellers and revenue teams do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. She believes in building simple (at least to the user!), valuable and explainable solutions, because nobody likes AI that’s a blackbox. Sneha joined Salesloft in 2018 and prior to that worked as a data scientist for another Atlanta-based startup for two years. In her past life she was an academic – she completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania and later worked as a math faculty at University of California, Irvine and at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Michel is currently the Product Management Director of Data Solutions. He has 25+ years’ experience leading the design and implementation of data and reporting solutions. His experience includes working with structured and unstructured data across digital advertising, consumer goods, healthcare, and insurance.

Michel is also an adjunct instructor in Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business where he teaches data visualization and data ethics. He has an MBA from Georgia Tech and a BA in International Studies from Iona College.