Yext announced that Jim Steele is stepping down from the Yext Board of Directors to join the company full-time as President and Chief Revenue Officer responsible for sales and customer success. Jim joins Yext following two years at InsideSales, the sales acceleration and predictive analytics company. Previously, Jim served as President & Chief Customer Officer for Salesforce, where he had a remarkable 12-year run, helping grow Salesforce's revenue to over $5 Billion when he left in 2015. With his new position, Jim will oversee Yext's entire revenue organization, including direct sales, partner sales, customer service, account management, and professional services. Yext also announced the hiring of David Rudnitsky as EVP, North American Enterprise Sales.
Yext, Inc. is a provider of an answer platform. The Company is engaged in organizing businesses facts to deliver relevant, actionable answers to consumer questions throughout the digital ecosystem. Its platform lets businesses structure the facts about their brands in a database called the Knowledge Graph. Its platform is built to leverage the structured data stored in the Knowledge Graph to deliver a search experience on a business or organization's own Website, as well as across over 200 service and application providers, which it refers to as its Publisher Network, and includes Amazon Alexa, Apple Maps, Bing, Cortana, Facebook, Google, Google Assistant, Google Maps, Siri, and Yelp. The Company's platform offers various features, including Listings, Pages, and Search, along with its other features and capabilities. The Company also offers field user support, which includes one-on-one training, review of content based on brand guidelines, and other support services.