GoodData, the leader in Data as a Service analytics infrastructure, announced that technology executive Chris Lobdell has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer.
Lobdell has more than two decades of experience in sales and technical leadership in some of the software industry’s most innovative companies, including his most recent role as a Vide President of Sales for Salesforce’s Data and Identity Solutions. Lobdell’s new role is focused on scaling GoodData’s sales and client success organisations, building deeper customer relationships and helping more businesses leverage business analytics.
GoodData founder and CEO Roman Stanek said:
“Chris is joining us at a pivotal moment, as we are fresh off the heels of our cloud-native platform launch and rollout of the new Data as a Service category.”
“He will be instrumental in working with our customers to accelerate the cloud analytics transformation. When I first met Chris, I was immediately impressed by his instincts for identifying market potential in the analytics space, and am looking forward to working with him to usher in this next era of API-first Data as a Service model.”
In his previous role as VP of Sales, Lobdell led a team of sellers focused on helping large enterprise brands construct data lakes for capturing their customer data in a federated and privacy-compliant manner. Before joining Salesforce in 2017, Lobdell served as Chief Revenue Officer in the marketing tech SaaS provider Ahalogy. There he supported marketers in adopting a data-driven approach for communicating with customers. In his career, he held several sales leadership and sales engineering roles at companies including dataxu and Google.
Lobdell commented:
“I’ve seen too many companies struggle to derive value from the monolithic, batch-oriented BI tools of yesterday. We’re finally seeing a proliferation of affordable cloud solutions, and the need for real-time data analytics has never been more pronounced.”
“GoodData has only scratched the surface when it comes to its market potential. Given the company’s decade-long experience and leading cloud technology, I’m excited about the unique position we are in to drive the shift towards real-time, secure, scalable access to data. My passion lies in helping organizations take back control of their data, and I’m thrilled to join a company that shares my mission.”
