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Chris O'Connell

EVP Global Sales & Alliances

Focus at rhino

Leads global go-to-market across financial services, energy, software, and federal civilian and defense, plus the partner and alliance ecosystem.

Experience

More than a decade at Appian leading go-to-market. As Global Leader of Partners & Alliances he drove triple-digit partner growth in 18 months across cosell, resell, BPO, managed services, and OEM; earlier, as VP of North American Partners & Alliances he built the post-IPO partner GTM with GSIs and RSIs, and as VP of US Public Sector Sales he grew software revenue 563% and led the shift from perpetual to subscription licensing. Guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon.

Education

Chris earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland.

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