SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 1, 2015

ClearSlide, the leading digital engagement platform for sales and marketing success, today announced Dustin Grosse as its new Chief Executive Officer. Grosse has held senior leadership positions at Microsoft, DocuSign, PlaceWare, and most recently served as ClearSlide’s Chief Operating Officer. ClearSlide’s easy-to-use content and communications tools with real-time analytics helps sellers, marketers and leaders more successfully engage with insight to achieve continually better business results.

“I’m honored to lead a company that measures its impact by the success of its growing base of blue-chip customers and raving ClearSlide users. ClearSlide’s real-time analytics helps identify content and communications that truly resonate with customers,” said Grosse. “ClearSlide’s platform provides a more modern, service-oriented approach of using digital content, communications, and insights to help companies continually improve their sales, marketing, and service investments.”

ClearSlide has raised $90 million to date from leading investors, including Greylock, Bessemer Ventures, Social+Capital, and Felicis. Over the past three years, ClearSlide has grown revenue and customers at more than 70% CAGR and was recently recognized in the top three “50 Best Companies to Sell For” by Selling Power.

“I’m very proud to welcome Dustin as our new CEO,” said ClearSlide Co-Founder and former CEO, Al Lieb. “I recruited Dustin to help evolve the company through our next phase of growth. Dustin is truly passionate about the success of our customers and helping to accelerate the scaling of our business, and I know he’ll do a great job representing ClearSlide as our new captain.”

Grosse has communicated that his top priorities are to focus additional investments on the company’s most attractive customer segments and aligning all operations to accelerate the company’s growth rate and profitability. “We’re committed to extending our market leading position with strategy and execution focused on service to our loyal, growing customer base,” said Grosse.

Grosse joined ClearSlide in August 2014 after serving as SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of DocuSign, where he built and scaled the company’s initial marketing, business development, industry, and e-commerce teams over four years of rapid growth. Grosse also spent eight years with Microsoft Corporation in various global sales and marketing roles following the acquisition of SaaS pioneer PlaceWare web-conferencing. Grosse has held other leadership positions with other venture-backed and publicly traded technology companies including Covad Communications, Voxeo, and OnFiber, and previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble.

Lieb, who previously served as ClearSlide CEO, will continue to serve as an active ClearSlide Board Member, and ClearSlide Co-Founder Jim Benton will move to a strategic advisor and Board observer role. Lieb and Benton founded ClearSlide seven years ago following success at Evite, where Lieb was also a Co-Founder.

About ClearSlide:

ClearSlide is the Platform for Sales and Marketing Success that powers valuable, genuine business conversations and enables organizations to achieve better business outcomes. ClearSlide improves customer communications (phone, email, face-to-face) by providing real-time visibility and analytics for sales and marketing leaders. As a result, customers achieve higher seller productivity, increased sales management effectiveness and stronger customer-facing messaging. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, ClearSlide serves thousands of customers, including Rackspace, Thomson Reuters, Comcast, SurveyMonkey, LinkedIn, and more.

The ClearSlide platform gives sales and marketing leaders insight into the real-time activity of their teams and provides deep analytics about the types of content that ultimately is most impactful with customers. For sales professionals, ClearSlide allows for easy communication with customers and prospects, whether online or in-person, using ClearSlide’s web-based or mobile applications.