David Swenson

Regional Sales Manager - Bay Area @ Zscaler

About

Experienced business professional with a B.S. in Finance from Santa Clara University. Diverse business experience includes direct sales, marketing, customer strategy, and project management with global responsibilities. Proven success in a variety of different work environments. I’m always seeking a challenging career opportunity that applies my business education, learned skills and personal talents to deliver customer satisfaction and business growth.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Skill

Sales, Saas, Security, Salesforce.com, Marketing, Public Speaking, Customer Service, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Management, Social Media, Teamwork, Research, Facebook, Event Planning, Strategy, Business Development

Experience

Regional Sales Manager - Bay Area

Zscaler

2023-11 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Applications are no longer just in the data center - employees are no longer just in the office. Zscaler enables CIO's to embrace this change, up level security, reduce complexity, reduce networking cost and improve user experience/productivity. Zscaler enables enterprises to successfully move their applications and infrastructure to the cloud, providing fast and secure connections regardless of device, user or application, location or network. With the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, the world’s largest cloud-native security platform, Zscaler enables people to safely do business beyond the corporate network.

Corporate Account Executive

CrowdStrike

2019-2 - 2023-11 · 4 yrs 10 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

2022 Quota Attainment: 114%

Market Response Representative

CrowdStrike

2018-8 - 2019-2 · 7 mos

Sunnyvale, CA

MRR (Market Response Reps) are part of the larger SDR Organization tasked with running high-level qualification and discovery calls designed to drive the creation of Top of Funnel sales opportunities. MRRs are tasked with managing inbound lead sources with the goal of discovering and driving new business opportunities for mid-market and enterprise accounts and reps. MRRs conduct high level qualification & discovery calls with the security leaders such as C-suite, VPs, and other influential prospects. I would qualify inbound leads, work channel deals, as well as have the opportunity to close small deals.

Corporate Sales Development

CrowdStrike

2017-6 - 2018-8 · 1 yr 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Account Executive

Yelp

2016-6 - 2017-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

San Francisco, California

Sales Operations & Customer Strategy Intern

SAP

2015-4 - 2016-5 · 1 yr 2 mos

Palo Alto, California

• Effectively collaborated with global sales team responsible for strategies and enablement content for field sales reps • Optimized sales processes with NA Procurement sales organization, which contributed to 140% quota attainment during Q3 • Work independence provided managers freedom to define new strategic sales plays as part of 2016 GTM planning

Owner Advisor - Sales

Tesla

2015-8 - 2016-3 · 8 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Student Director: High Tech Law Career Services

Santa Clara University

2015-1 - 2015-9 · 9 mos

• Directly responsible for event operations, fundraising, and talent management for the SCU Law School branch of IP litigation & high technology Law. • Exceeded goal of $10,000 in new corporate sponsorships through outbound sales efforts

Sales Associate

Nordstrom

2012-12 - 2015-8 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Personally generated $400k in revenue during six months of employment each year • Consistently outperformed experienced full-time employees with multiple weekly sales honors • Recognized as one of only three four-star employees of 40 associates based on sales achievement • Learned and successfully applied Nordstrom industry-leading customer service model