Nikki Jennings

Nikki Jennings

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Vice President, Global Technical Sales
Cedar Park, Texas, United States

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  • Huntress
    Vice President, Global Technical Sales
    Huntress
    Dec 2023 - Current (2 years 10 months)
  • Posit PBC
    Senior Vice President, Customer Success
    Posit PBC
    Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 (6 months)
  • Veeam Software
    Vice President, Channel & Cloud Sales Engineering and Services
    Veeam Software
    Apr 2019 - Jul 2023 (4 years 4 months)
  • SolarWinds
    Group VP - Global Sales Engineering & Sales
    SolarWinds
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019 (1 year 3 months)
  • SolarWinds
    Group VP – Global Sales Engineering & Corporate Development ♦ SolarWinds Certified Professional
    SolarWinds
    Jul 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 7 months)
    SolarWinds provides purpose-built products that are designed to make jobs easier for IT professionals, MSPs, and DevOps pros. We offer value-driven products and tools that solve a broad range of IT management challenges—whether those challenges are related to networks, servers, applications, storage, virtualization, cloud, or development operations.
    _______________

    After SolarWinds became a privately-held company once again in 2016, I was asked to lead the company’s corporate and business development function—including M&A initiatives—in a dual capacity with my current role as Group Vice President of the Global Sales Engineering organization.

    As the Group VP of Corporate Development, I am responsible for driving f
  • SolarWinds
    Group VP ♦ Global Leader – Product Marketing & Management / GTM Strategy
    SolarWinds
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2016 (2 years 1 month)
    GROUP VICE PRESIDENT, Product Management

    Migrated to product management business function to provide insight into stronger product development based on market research and consumer feedback on SolarWinds’ Core IT product portfolio. Responsible for leading initiatives in strategic business planning of product and feature development, I was accountable for delivering profitable product releases to market and continuing to grow the $500M revenue business.

    By identifying gaps in product offerings, I accelerated growth for underperforming products, championed organic development of new products, and proposed potential M&A opportunities to maintain competitive advantage.

    ♦ Delivered compelling new features and e
  • SolarWinds
    VP, Global Sales Engineering ♦ International Sales Team Leader
    SolarWinds
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2014 (6 years 1 month)
    Most of my tenure at SolarWinds focused on building and scaling the startup from a small team of Sales Engineers into an elite global Sales Engineering organization.


    VICE PRESIDENT, Worldwide Sales Engineering

    Led global Sales Engineering team of over 60 pre-sales Support Engineers—reaching into locations across Australia—while grooming a team of individual contributors for leadership roles.

    ♦ Acquired and developed pre-sales support talent for new offices in Sydney and Brisbane.
    ♦ Expanded sales performance greater than 27% YoY and over $428M in revenue.


    DIRECTOR, WW Sales Engineering

    Promoted to lead the global sales organization team of 28 Sales Engineers—located in
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    Sr. Systems Administrator ♦ Business-wide Management of Network Administration & Infrastructure
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    Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 (2 years 1 month)
    T3 is a privately held technology-driven creative marketing, advertising, and public relations agency.
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    I joined T3 as a Senior Systems Administrator responsible for business-wide management of applications and advanced network administration for the company’s New York, San Francisco, and Austin offices. Maintained the Cisco VoIP infrastructure and acted as Server Administrator for Exchange server farm and virtualization infrastructure.

    ♦ Relocated to build-out the technology infrastructure for the New York office, which grew to over 45+ professionals within its first year.
  • Liaison Creative Marketing
    Director – Information Technology ♦ Technical Consultant & Sales Advisor ♦ Team Leader
    Liaison Creative Marketing
    Jan 1997 - Jan 2006 (9 years 1 month)
    Liaison Creative + Marketing operates creative marketing services groups for enterprise clients. Liaison is a privately held company that contracts freelance Graphic Artists to work with creative technology companies.
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    Promoted to Director of IT at Liaison, I led a team of 10 Engineers responsible for providing on-site technical network support for creative services: building and maintaining computer networks, application servers, and storage infrastructures.

    ♦ Technical Consultant at AMD, 3M, and Freescale
    ♦ Technical Sales Advisor for Liaison’s customer base
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  • St Edwards University
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Systems Management, Information Technology
    St Edwards University
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2007 (6 years 1 month)
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    Network Management and Systems & Virtualization Management Product Launches
    Led the launch of 5 major releases for network management and systems & virtualization management product lines:

    ♦ Release of Data Performance Analyzer v10, $28.3M revenue generating product as of 2015

    ♦ Release of Storage Resource Monitor v6, rebuilt product and added as a Core IT module

    ♦ Release of Virtualization Manager v6, deepened integration with Server & Application Monitor and added product to “Application Stack” for end-to-end visibility

    ♦ Release of Server & Application Monitor v6, launched Application Stack as a troubleshooting dashboard, $50M Revenue Generating Product as of 2015

    ♦ Network Performance Monitor v11.5, launched “deep packet inspection” feature, $100.9M revenue
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    Press Release: Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant Positions SolarWinds Highest in "Ability to Execute" for Network Performance
    Market Wired Jan
    SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software, today announced that the company has been included in the Gartner, Inc. 2016 Magic Quadrant® for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD)● as a Challenger. In addition, the report positions SolarWinds highest along the "Ability to Execute" axis.
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    Press Release: SolarWinds makes Forbes Magazine's Fastest-growing Tech List
    Biz Journals Jan
    Austin-based SolarWinds Inc. made Forbes magazine’s list of the 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States based on sales.
  • SolarWinds
    Press Release: SolarWinds Helps DBAs Accelerate the Performance of Oracle Multitenant Databases
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, With Enhanced Support for Oracle Database 12c, Now Pinpoints Efficiency Issues and Optimizes Performance of Oracle Pluggable Databases in a Multitenant Environment.
  • SolarWinds
    Press Release: SolarWinds Automates Network Vulnerability Detection and Security Policy Enforcement
    SolarWinds
    Latest version of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager leverages the National Vulnerability Database in a Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) compliant manner to identify device vulnerabilities and provide automated remediation actions.
  • Forbes
    SolarWinds on Forbes Lists
    Forbes
    #19 Innovative Growth Companies (2015)
    #11 America's Best Small Companies (2014)
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