This Team Has a History of Helping Sales Connect with Prospects.
Dan
Barrett – Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Prior to founding SalesBlade, Inc., Dan Barrett, with his Partner Denise
Simmons, spent eleven years with Barrett & Simmons LLC where he served
as the Managing Partner for the sales consulting company. Under Dan’s leadership,
the team productized and patented their internal "call prospecting" technologies,
and turned those capabilities outward with a market penetration service branded
as NextStep.
Prior to Barrett & Simmons, Dan spent 15 years in the consulting industry
where he is widely regarded as a master of new market penetration and major account
expansion and growth. Dan served as a Director in charge of New Account
Development for Andersen Consulting. Prior to that Dan served as the VP
of Sales for Trecom, joining as their tenth employee and driving sales nationally
to the $60M and positioning the company for acqisition. Dan got his start working
for General Electric's Information Services division where he ended as a Regional
Sales Manager in their emerging Telecommunications division. Dan graduated from
the University of Cincinnati in 1982 with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Finance.
Denise
Simmons – Chief Operating Officer and Founder
Denise was one of the three founding partners of Barrett & Simmons. Denise
leveraged her extensive Fortune 500 management experience and expert knowledge
of emerging network and applications technology development to bring the company
instant credibility and execution capabilities.
Prior, Denise served as a General Manager with Computer Science's Network
Solutions division where she was responsible for transitioning the group's extensive
network solutions business with the Federal Government into a commercially
viable stand-alone business unit. She served as a VP with Merrill Lynch's
Capital Markets Systems group where she was responsible for the technology infrastructure
development of the Commmercial Paper Trading Floor which supported Client
Server platforms and some of the first business technologies integrated with
the World Wide Web. Denise got her start as an Analyst with Ameritech where
she was chartered to get the firm converted and productive with IBM's then-new
PC technology. Denise graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1983 with
a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Computer Sciences.
Chad
Wright – Chief Technical Officer and Founder
Chad served as the CTO of Barrett & Simmons where he helped convert and
industrialize the technology that was later patented as the NextStep call
prospecting service. He is now the Chief Architect for the SalesBlade CallRIGHT
SaaS product offering. Chad has extensive knowledge of Fortune 500 grade networked
solutions and developed some of the industry's earliest forms of "web enabled” services.
Prior to joining Barrett & Simmons, Chad spent 7 years as a consultant
with an IBM reseller, with the charter to "make it work." Chad
offers extensive client references from across the Insurance, Banking, Education,
and Manufacturing sectors as he led many successful technology engagements. Chad
graduated from Kent State in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science |
