SaaSMAX announced that Chris Gardner, veteran enterprise cybersecurity and AI sales leader, will advise SaaSMAX on driving sales and go-to-market strategy for the company’s data-driven partner discovery solutions, partner grading and segmentation solutions, and partner activation and enablement solutions, branded PartnerOptimizer.
Gardner has been a successful sales and marketing leader for growth-stage enterprise technology companies in the cybersecurity software and AI space since 2003. His experience building channel partner programs started back in 2003 with Ivanti (formerly Lumension), after which he led the channel for BakBone Software (acquired by Dell).
From there Chris was brought in repeatedly by Silicon Valley venture capital teams as head of sales for multiple cybersecurity software and solution companies including EdgeWave, Wontok SafeCental, Sendio, Proficio and AttackIQ.
