Chris Bates Email Address

Global Vice President of Customer Success

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• Experienced Customer Success leader, currently leading global Customer Success organization at Tableau Software. Previously led global Customer Success organizations at Clarizen and Salesforce. • Extensive Sales leadership experience, spanning Direct Sales, Channel, Inside, and Field Sales. • Passion for creating high-performing teams, with demonstrated success recruiting, developing, and motivating global organizations. • History of exceeding P&L goals, launching new businesses and scaling them to $100M+ P&L's, as well as growing a $1B+ P&L. • Broad global experience, leading global teams at Clarizen, Salesforce, and Dell. Relocated to London for 2+ years with Dell. • Active participant in the Customer Success community. Speaker at the 2015 Bay Area Gainsight Pulse conference, as well as at the first Pulse EMEA conference in London in November 2015.