Box Appoints Three SVPs

Box, Inc. announced the appointment of Carrie Palin as the company’s first CMO and named Lesley Young and Tom Addis as the company’s senior sales leadership.

Lesley Young will be SVP and GM of global commercial and online sales operations and Tom Addis will be SVP and GM of global field operations.

Together, they will lead integrated go to market strategy and operations, bolstering the company’s leadership as it focuses on growing market share and expanding its addressable market.

“At Box, we strive to make it easier than ever for people to work together and connect with the information they need, and we’re assembling a world leadership team to help realize our vision,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO. “Carrie brings a wealth of enterprise experience to Box and will be key in fueling the next stage of our growth. Lesley and Tom have both made significant contributions to Box, each playing a critical role in scaling Box to a more than $300 million revenue company and a leading enterprise content platform with 62,000 customers globally. We’re thrilled that both Lesley and Tom are taking on expanded global roles.”

Carrie Palin, SVP and CMO
She joins Box with 20 years of enterprise marketing and sales experience. Most recently, she was the VP marketing for IBM‘s cloud data services and analytics software. Prior to IBM, she had a career at Dell, where she helped lead various marketing groups during her 15-year tenure, including leading the global team responsible for transforming the digital demand generation model at Dell.

Lesley Young, SVP, GM of global commercial and online sales operations
For the past 5 years, she has held the role of SVP of corporate sales at Box where her responsibilities included leading the strategy and execution for the SMB and mid-market sales segments, the renewals sales team, and the sales operations team as well as driving demand strategy and pipeline development efforts. She has more than 15 years of experience in high growth pre and post IPO venture-backed start-ups. Prior to Box, she held senior executive roles at MySQL, Informatica and Remedy Corporation.

Tom Addis, SVP, GM of global field operations
Most recently, he served as SVP of enterprise sales at Box where he led the operations and expansion of the company’s enterprise sales organization in North America. Prior to joining Box, he held a variety of sales leadership roles at salesforce.com, as well as Siebel Systems and IBM. He has over 20 years of experience in growing and managing large enterprise customer relationships, having overseen sales organizations at some of the software industry’s largest companies.

Building on a record fiscal 2016, in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 Box added over 5,000 new paying customers, growing its paying customer base to 62,000 businesses, including 59% of the Fortune 500.

In Q1, the company added or expanded deployments with enterprises like Brooks Brothers, Daniel J. Edelman, Los Angeles International Airport, The Whirlpool Corporation, TUV Rheinland and Unicef UK.