Quickbase Empower 2023 (2023)

Ed Jennings joined Quickbase as chief executive officer in May 2020 and has a proven track record of accelerating enterprise growth for SaaS leaders. His unique strengths combine innovative market strategies, velocity sales leadership, and extraordinary team building.

Prior to joining Quickbase, Ed was chief operating officer at Mimecast, where he was responsible for the global marketing, sales and services teams and helped bring the company public in 2015. Under his leadership, Mimecast expanded its footprint into the enterprise space, grew its annual revenue from $82M to over $400M in four years, and scaled the team from 350 employees to 1,800, while expanding offices internationally.

In addition to his recent role at Mimecast, Ed has held marketing leadership roles at PTC and Veracode; at the latter, he defined the go-to-market strategy that enabled the company to quadruple revenues during his nearly four-year tenure. Veracode was sold to Computer Associates in 2017. He also has served as CEO for SaaS workflow solution Copanion that was acquired by Drake Software in 2010.

Ed is on the advisory board of Ten Eleven Ventures and the Cyber Resilience Think Tank. He is a regular speaker on a range of digital transformation and technology topics at Gartner, Forrester and FS-ISAC conferences.

Ed is a graduate of Boston College and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Eric is Chief Customer Success Officer at Quickbase, responsible for customer success, technical support and consulting and enablement services. With more than 20 years of experience in technology and services, he was most recently Global Vice President of Customer Success and Services and Mendix, where he led successive years of 40%+ ARR growth and integration activities following the company’s acquisition by Siemens. Prior to Mendix, Eric held services and technical-sales leadership roles at high-growth SaaS companies including Zuora, Rapid7 and PTC. At PTC, he served on expatriate leadership assignments in Japan, France and China for a total of 12 years. Eric began his career in the aerospace industry as a mechanical engineer for CAE Electronics in Canada, where he specialized in design of flight simulators and space control systems. Eric earned both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Montreal, and executive business-education certificates from Harvard Business School and INSEAD.

Debbi Roberts is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Quickbase. Debbi leads all aspects of product management, including UI/UX and innovation teams, and is responsible for defining and executing the product vision and strategy to deliver customer solutions that exceed expectations. Debbi has more than 20 years of experience leading product management for both B2B SaaS and hardware companies. Most recently, Debbi was Executive Director, Product Management at Vista Consulting Group, part of Vista Equity Partners. Debbi worked across Vista’s 80+ portfolio companies to help product management teams scale and increase business value through implementation of Product Management Best Practices. Prior to Vista, Debbi was Vice President of Product Management at Web.com (now Newfold Digital), where she had P&L responsibility for a broad suite of B2B SaaS products across multiple brand channels. Debbi has also held product management leadership roles at Motorola (RFID Division), Verisign and General Electric. Debbi has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Loyola University.