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CRM Acceleration Summit: Speakers

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CRM Acceleration offers a chance to interact with CRM visionaries, domain experts and product managers of the world's most popular commercial open source CRM solution.

Andy Dreisch

Andy Dreisch is the Vice President of Support and Training, with executive responsibility of servicing our worldwide customer base. Andy was recently Vice President of Community Development at SugarCRM, leading the Sugar Open Source project, community and developer initiatives. Andy's leadership roles in product marketing, product development and senior director of Sugar engineering have contributed to a wide variety of Sugar's success.

Gerhard Gschwandtner

Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Personal Selling Power , Inc., a magazine and book publishing company located in Fredericksburg, VA. After seven years as an international sales and marketing executive in Austria, France, and the United States, he started a sales training consulting company and trained over 10,000 salespeople in Europe and the United States. In 1981 he started Selling Power on a shoestring budget and turned it into the leading sales management magazine, with a circulation of 138,000 subscribers in 67 countries. Today Personal Selling Power, Inc. has a book-publishing division, an audio-publishing division, and the leading Website in the sales industry, www.sellingpower.com, with over 100,000 individual visitors a month. Gschwandtner’s wife, Laura, is the editor of Selling Power, and two of their three daughters also work for the magazine. He has created 14 books on selling and management and two books on photography.

He is considered one of CRM’s leading authorities on strategy and on the state of the market, and has been quoted in multiple national magazines and newspapers as a subject matter expert including the New York Times.

Cameron Jackson

Cameron Jackson is responsible for enterprise sales at SugarCRM. As one of SugarCRM’s earliest employees, Cameron has played a vital role in building SugarCRM’s global sales force. Most recently, Cameron served as SugarCRM’s Regional Vice President of Enterprise Sales for the northeastern United States.

With over 15 years of enterprise software experience, Cameron has held a variety of roles across sales, marketing and business development during his career. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Cameron served as a Corporate Account Executive for Microsoft Corporation where he was responsible for key financial services accounts. Cameron holds a BA from Tulane University.

Jason Nassi

Jason Nassi is the Director of Customer Support at SugarCRM. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Jason Nassi held a variety of technical support and engineering management positions at Netscape Communications, AOL, and Sun Microsystems. Jason holds a B.A from Brandeis University.

Doug Ribback

Doug Ribback is responsible for demand generation programs at SugarCRM. A marketing veteran with 17 years of marketing experience, his expertise is in strategic planning and execution of customer lifecycle management programs. Doug has worked as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for SourceForge, Sun Software Subscriptions, Novell Upgrade Services, and has managed marketing programs for global catalog resellers Creative Computers (PC Mall) and Multiple Zones International (MacZone and PCZone), and has managed sales & marketing programs for a newspaper chain owned by ABC/Capital Cities.

Martin Schneider

Martin Schneider is director of product marketing at SugarCRM. In his role, Martin handles competitive intelligence, marketing positioning and analyst relations. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Martin held the position of senior analyst with technology industry research firm the 451 Group, headquartered in NYC. Martin covered the CRM landscape for the 451, analyzing and consulting on such topics as Software-as-a-Service, business intelligence and open source applications. Martin also covered the CRM space as news editor with CRM Magazine in New York.

Jennifer Yim

Jennifer Yim is a Product Manager at SugarCRM and is responsible for defining the product roadmap and creating requirements documents for new product features. Prior to joining SugarCRM, Jennifer held professional services roles at other young high-tech companies, as well as several positions in marketing at larger companies, such as Sun Microsystems, Inc. She also holds a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California, Berkeley. In her free time, Jennifer enjoys outdoor activities, traveling and attending music events.

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