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Kelly Breslin Wright
Affiliate Instructor of Marketing and International Business

Education

  • MBA University of Pennsylvania (1998)
  • BA Stanford University (1992)

Expertise

culture, entrepreneurship, go-to-market, organizational behavior, sales, scaling, strategy

Positions Held

Operational Roles:
• Culture Driven Sales, Founder & CEO
• Gong, President & Chief Operating Officer
• Tableau Software (formerly NYSE: DATA), Executive Vice President, Sales (Chief Revenue Officer)
• AtHoc, Vice President Sales
• Bain & Company, Consultant
• McKinsey & Company, Consultant
• Bank of America, Mortgage Sales
• Dale Carnegie Training, Sales and Training
• Southwestern Advantage, Sales

Board and Advising Roles:
• Fastly (NYSE: FSLY), a public technology company (Audit Committee and Compensation Committee)
• Plum (NASDAQ: PLMIU), a SPAC (NomGov Committee)
• Lucid, a late-stage private technology company (NomGov Committee Chair and Audit Committee)
• Gong, late-stage Artificial Intelligence company, where she served on the board before and after COO role
• Even, a private fintech company acquired by Walmart (Compensation Committee Chair)
• Amperity, a private Customer Data Platform company.
• Board Advisor to Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX), Asana (NYSE: ASAN), data.world, Hyperproof, Cien, and Two Ravens

Courses Taught

Marketing 579: Culture Driven Sales & Go-To-Market Strategy

Kelly Breslin Wright

Academic Department

Marketing & International Business

Academic Service

Faculty, North Carolina State University Poole College of Management – 2025 - Present
Stanford Bing Overseas Study Program Advisory Council – 2024 – Present
Stanford Seattle Advisors – 2018 – Present
Stanford LEAD Council – 2017 – Present
UW Foster Professional Sales Program – 2015 – 2021