Experience

Five9

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• President

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  San Ramon., CA Responsible for global sales, including all direct, channels, business development and marketing. Since joining Five9 in 2009, Dan has grown annual revenues from under $20M to approach $200M. He is also responsible for all implementation, professional services, and customer support organizations. His organizations cover the entire customer life-cycle from sales to implementation to ongoing support – all critical to customer success from a Cloud Software company. Dan has more than 30… Show more Responsible for global sales, including all direct, channels, business development and marketing. Since joining Five9 in 2009, Dan has grown annual revenues from under $20M to approach $200M. He is also responsible for all implementation, professional services, and customer support organizations. His organizations cover the entire customer life-cycle from sales to implementation to ongoing support – all critical to customer success from a Cloud Software company. Dan has more than 30 years of experience building and scaling successful sales and leadership teams. Before Five9, Dan was SVP of Sales at Transera Communications. He also ran worldwide sales for IP Unity, growing the business tenfold, and held sales management positions at Cisco and GeoTel. Show less



Five9

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Vice President, Global Sales & Services

  • 2016 - 2017

  San Ramon, CA Responsible for global sales, including all direct, channels, and business development across all markets. During his 7 years at Five9, Dan has grown annual revenues from under $20M to over $160M. He is also responsible for all implementation, professional services, and customer support organizations. His organizations cover the entire customer life-cycle from sales to implementation to ongoing support – all critical to customer success from a Cloud Software company.

• EVP Sales & Business Development

  • 2013 - 2016

• SVP Enterprise Sales & Business Development

  • 2009 - 2013



Transera Communications (later acquired by Broadsoft)

• SVP, Sales

  • 2006 - 2009

  Sunnyvale, CA



IP UNITY

• India
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SVP Worldwide Sales

  • 2003 - 2006

  Milpitas, CA



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Area Sales Manager, Advanced Solutions Group

  • 1999 - 2003

  San Jose, CA • Built and manage group of 32 Sales Specialists, Engineers and Sales Engineering Managers • Responsible for growing Revenues from $65m to over $130m annually • Responsible for all sales of IPTel(Voice); Security; Optical; Wireless solutions • Voice Solutions include IPTel solutions for Contact Center, IPIVR, CTI, Unified Messaging, for all enterprise customers.



GeoTel Communications, LLC (acquired by Cisco in 1999)

• Director of Sales, Western US & Canada

  • 1997 - 1999

  San Francisco • Scaled Western Region from 2 to 12 people in 24 months while at GeoTel • Grew revenues from $1.2M to $10.2M in 24 months (850%) while at GeoTel • Managed 7 AM’s and 5 SE’s covering 10 state territory • Took over Western Region with only 2 installed-base customers • Managed successfully through direct and channel selling situations • Hired, trained, and developed skilled experts for Sales and SE positions