NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Yext, Inc.
(NYSE: YEXT), the Search Experience Cloud company, today announced
the promotion of David Rudnitsky to
President and Chief Revenue Officer. Rudnitsky, who joined Yext in
2017, was previously responsible for Yext's enterprise sales
organization for North
America.
Rudnitsky has over 35 years of technology and cloud sales
experience, having successfully led enterprise sales for a number
of leading disruptive tech companies. Prior to Yext, he spent 12
years at Salesforce, scaling the enterprise sales team and helping
to lead the company from $51 million
in revenue at IPO to nearly $6
billion. Additionally, he authored The Sales
Playbook, which is featured in Salesforce Founder & CEO
Marc Benioff's best-seller,
Behind the Cloud. Prior to Salesforce, he led enterprise
sales teams at Ariba, Netscape, and Oracle.
"Yext is disrupting the search category and Dave has, quite
literally, written the book on technology sales disruption," said
Howard Lerman, Founder and CEO of
Yext. "I'm thrilled to unify our global sales organization under
his incredible leadership. His background and proven track record
of success make him uniquely qualified to lead us into the next
phase of growth and category disruption."
About Yext
The ultimate source for official answers
about a business online should be the business itself. However,
when consumers ask questions on company websites, too often they
are left in the dark with wrong answers. Yext (NYSE: YEXT), the
Search Experience Cloud, solves this problem by organizing a
business's facts so it can provide official answers to consumer
questions — wherever people search. Starting with the company
website, then extending across search engines and voice assistants,
businesses around the world, like T-Mobile, Jaguar Land Rover, BBVA
USA, and Kiehl's — as well as
organizations like the U.S. State Department and World Health
Organization — trust Yext to radically improve the search
experience on their websites and across the entire search
ecosystem.
Yext's mission is to help businesses and organizations around
the world deliver official answers everywhere people search. Yext
has been named a Best Place to Work by Fortune and Great Place to
Work®, as well as a Best Workplace for Women. Yext is headquartered
in New York City with offices in
Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Geneva, London, Miami, Milan,
Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area — and work-from-home
offices all around the world.
CONTACT: Amanda Kontor,
pr@yext.com
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