Gainsight Leadership

A human-first company requires a different kind of leadership. The kind of leaders who prioritize empathy along with strategy and connection as well as innovation. In other words, you need a team like this.

Is the CEO of Gainsight, the platform that helps companies of all sizes and industries drive durable growth through customer-led and product-led strategies. He works with a team of over 1400 human beings who together have helped create the Customer Success category that’s currently taking over the SaaS business model worldwide. Gainsight is a five-time Forbes Cloud 100 recipient and Nick has been named the #2 CEO by the Software Report, has a 99% approval rating on Glassdoor, and was named Entrepreneur Of The Year for Northern California Award. On top of all that, he was recently rated as the #1 CEO in the world (the award committee was just his mom, but the details are irrelevant). He is a member of the Board of Directors at F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and has co-authored two books on Customer Success, Customer Success and The Customer Success Economy. He is passionate about family, football, philosophy, physics, fashion, parody music videos, and SaaS Customer Success. People told him it’s impossible to combine all of those interests, but Nick has made it his life’s mission to try.

Alka Tandan

Chief Financial Officer

Kellie Capote

Chief Customer Officer

Monika Saha

Chief Marketing Officer

Jeff Depa is Chief Revenue Officer at Gainsight where he leads the company’s day to day field operations driving outcomes for Gainsight customers. Jeff has more than two decades of leadership experience across sales, marketing, consulting, and systems engineering at companies including Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Datastax, where he he built, scaled and lead customer-focused, high performance enterprise teams that drove profitable hyper-growth across SaaS and software businesses. Prior to Gainsight, Jeff was the CRO at Lucidworks. Jeff earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and also holds a Masters in Management. Outside of his passion for driving outcomes in his clients’ businesses, Jeff is an avid pilot, do-it-yourselfer and enjoys spending time with his family and on his tractor in Austin, TX.

Robin van Lieshout

Chief Strategy Officer

Carol Mahoney

Chief People Officer

Karl will lead Gainsight’s expanded product vision and execution for a comprehensive Customer Success platform that help customers take action. Karl has held senior product and marketing roles as an early employee at VMware, leading product management for VirtualCenter, driving the acquisition of SpringSource, and leading the vFabric business unit. Karl has also run product teams at enterprise social pioneer, Jive, and predictive analytics pioneer Infer. Prior to his software career, Karl was an academic mathematician, lecturing at Stanford University after receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Three Things You Need to Know About Karl

  • Karl taught large freshman Calculus courses at Stanford in the late 90s. He occasionally runs into tech companies folks who are startled when they realize that he was their math professor.
  • Karl can’t shave off his mustache because his wife and kids will assume he is a stranger and lock him out of the house.
  • Karl grew up near the ocean in San Diego but is weirdly more into basketball than surfing.

As a member of the executive leadership team at Gainsight, backed by Vista Private Equity, Robin serves as Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff and Community. In her role, Robin leads Global Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Customer Success Careers, and Philanthropy. She founded Gainsight’s social responsibility effort, building the Customer Success industry’s first-ever apprenticeship program for underrepresented communities and has raised over $2M for global giving to date. Robin’s impact on the Customer Success community and executives’ careers continues to guide the ~800 person company in propelling the category and trailblazing the human-first leadership movement.

Robin’s early career began at Bridgewater Associates, the largest and best-performing hedge fund in the world. She relocated from New York City to Silicon Valley in 2015 to join Box (NYSE: BOX) where, on the CEO’s team, she directed global internal communications across 4 continents, 9 countries, and 2,000+ employees. Robin earned her B.A. in Communications and Marketing from Fairfield University graduating Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with honors in six world languages.

Three Fun Things You Need to Know About Robin

  • Robin is a Limited Partner and actively invests in Latin American-based seed-stage tech startups.
  • Though her career on the stage stalled after her breakout performance as Annie in the 8th grade, her farewell tour is ongoing with go-to karaoke performances of the 1992 classic, “What’s Up,” by 4 Non Blondes.
  • Channeling a deep love of essentially any ‘90s sitcom, she rewrote the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song and performed it as part of her Gainsight interview. (Thankfully she still got the job!)

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