ON Partners Places Chief Sales Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Guru
December 19, 2022 – Daniel Bolger and Jake Espenlaub of ON Partners have helped to place Dan Thompson as chief sales officer and Jeff Perkins as chief marketing officer at Greenlight Guru, a provider of cloud-based software solutions for MedTech companies.
“Dan and Jeff are joining Greenlight Guru as we enter a new chapter of expansion, innovation, and scale,” said David DeRam, CEO of Greenlight Guru. “We’ve had several years of consistent high growth and are in the midst of a rapid international expansion of our customer base and company footprint. We were looking for two exceptional leaders with the experience to help accelerate our continued growth, and that’s exactly what Dan and Jeff bring to the table.”
These hires come at the end of a successful 2022 for Greenlight Guru that saw substantial growth while acquiring several companies, including Denmark-based SMART-TRIAL. In 2021, the company received a $120 million investment from JMI Equity.
Mr. Thompson is an experienced go-to-market executive with over 15 years of building and leading high-performing teams through periods of rapid growth. He comes to Greenlight Guru from Workday, which he joined through the acquisition of Peakon where he led commercial operations for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. His people-first, process-oriented approach to strategy and execution has enabled him to drive consistent, sustainable results at both scale-ups and public companies, including Dialpad, Smarsh, and Symantec.
“The more I learned about Greenlight Guru, the harder it was to say no,” said Mr. Thompson. “The opportunity we have here is incredible, and I’m excited to be partnering with Jeff and team to not only continue the tremendous growth this company has seen in recent years, but take it to the next level.”
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Mr. Perkins is an experienced executive who has held leadership roles at several high-growth technology companies, including ParkMobile, QASymphony (now Tricentis), PGi, and Autotrader US. In his most recent role at ParkMobile, he helped establish the company as the number one parking app in the U.S., growing revenue by 233 percent over the past five years. Mr. Perkins started his career in the New York advertising industry working at Saatchi & Saatchi and Havas, and is the author of the book How Not to Suck at Marketing.
Proven Recruiters
With a primary focus on technology, consumer, industrial, and the life science sectors, ON Partners recruits C-level and board talent for public and private companies, as well as venture capital and private equity firms. Founded in 2006, the firm’s consultants work from offices in Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Dallas; Menlo Park, CA; Minneapolis. MN; San Francisco; and New York. ON Partners was named one of the fastest growing search firms this year by Hunt Scanlon Media. The firm is now ranked as one of the 20 largest search firms in the nation.
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Mr. Bolger partners with established organizations to modernize and transform their technology infrastructure and collaborates with growth companies across multiple functions to build executive leadership teams. For larger, established organizations, such as Fiserv, Allscripts, and Digital Realty, he has placed CTO, CIO, and senior-level executives. With growth companies, Mr. Bolger has placed executive leaders across a range of functions including sales, marketing, technology, finance, and engineering. He previously served as talent acquisition manager at PepsiCo.
Mr. Espenlaub serves the software, E-commerce, consumer, digital, and retail industries. Organizations he serves include public, private equity, and growth equity organizations with a focus on digital transformation. The functions he serves include go-to-market, product, technology, digital, and customer experience. Previously, he ran the technology practice at the Benefits Advisory Group.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
