About Us

Doug Bewsher CEO

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Over his career, Doug has pioneered and built some of the world’s leading social, mobile and technology brands. Prior to Leadspace, he was CMO at Salesforce.com where he launched Salesforce Communities and Chatterbox and supported the incredible growth of the enterprise Cloud computing leader. Before Salesforce.com, he served as CMO at Skype, growing the company to 750 million users and third of all international communications through the acquisition by Microsoft, and co-led McKinsey’s North American CRM practice through the dot.com boom and bust.

Amnon Mishor Founder & CTO

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Amnon Mishor co-founded Leadspace (formerly Data Essence) in 2010 and served as the company’s CEO for its first four years. Amnon brings more than 10 years experience in envisioning and leading the development of innovative solutions in the fields of web intelligence, semantic technologies, and search. Prior to Leadspace, Amnon designed and deployed successful business and competitive intelligence solutions for over a dozen high-tech organizations, including Bezeq (Israel’s national telecom company) and ECI Telecom. During his service in the Israel Defense Force, Amnon headed the Intelligence Systems and Data Mining Department of the army’s Technological Intelligence Unit.

Michal Finkelstein General Manager, Israel

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Michal is an innovator in natural language processing (NLP), text analytics and semantic technologies, as well as an accomplished technology leader. She has managed large product and R&D teams over her career, including overseeing the Thomson Reuters site in Israel. Michal also worked as Vice President of Product Operations for Public Technologies, and Vice President of Product for qbeats, both in New York, N.Y.

Sherrod Patching CCO

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Sherrod has built customer success teams from the ground up, both in the US and EMEA. She comes to Leadspace from enterprise content performance marketing experts BrightEdge Technologies. At BrightEdge, Sherrod led the enterprise customer success team in the 90-person client services organization, and played a critical role in shaping how the CS team engage with customers to drive positive business outcomes and ROI.

Stu Schmidt CRO

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With a diverse career in B2B revenue leadership, and four successful exits, Stu brings deep experience in growth and scalability to Leadspace. Prior to Leadspace, Stu headed the B2B Non-profit division of GoFundMe and established the CrowdRise by GoFundMe brand as the choice for leading enterprise-class charities. Prior to GoFundMe, Stu was President at Zend, CEO of ConnectandSell and is well known for developing the sales process at WebEx during the hyper-growth years, leading to the acquisition by Cisco. Stu is a faculty mentor at the Alchemist Accelerator and advises and serves on the board of numerous companies.