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# John Chen

**Headline:** Founding Account Executive at ChainPatrol \| Building relationships that drive revenue and customer success
**Profession:** Founding Account Executive
**Location:** San Francisco Bay Area

## About

John Chen is the Founding Account Executive at ChainPatrol, where he builds relationships that drive revenue and customer success\. John’s background spans full\-cycle sales, enterprise account management, customer success, outbound prospecting, inside\-sales leadership, and business development across cybersecurity, digital risk protection, data infrastructure, and machine\-data intelligence\. He has five years of full sales\-cycle experience and brings strengths in sales, account management, channel partners, sales operations, lead generation, customer satisfaction, customer success, business partner relations, and team leadership\. Before ChainPatrol, John was a Customer Success Manager at Doppel, a digital risk protection company focused on protecting brands from phishing and other digital threats and backed by a16z, South Park Commons, and SVAngel\. His experience also includes Optiv, CrowdStrike, WekaIO, Sumo Logic, Fivesky, and Lynbrook\. At Sumo Logic, John delivered 175% of target in Q1 and 160% in Q2 and was named the \#1 Outbound SDR in May 2018\. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting Information Systems from San Jose State University\.

## Services

- Sales
- Account Management
- Channel Partners
- Sales Operations
- Research
- Customer Satisfaction
- Lead Generation
- Salesforce\.com
- Microsoft Office
- PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Sumo Logic
- Leadership
- Customer Service
- Team Building
- Time Management
- Business Partner Relations
- Customer Success

## Highlights

- Founding Account Executive at ChainPatrol, building relationships that drive revenue and customer success\.
- Brings five years of full sales\-cycle experience\.
- Achieved 175% of target in Q1 as an Outbound Business Representative at Sumo Logic\.
- Achieved 160% of target in Q2 as an Outbound Business Representative at Sumo Logic\.
- Named the \#1 Outbound SDR at Sumo Logic in May 2018\.
- Held Inside Sales, Inside Sales Team Lead, and Inside Sales Manager roles at WekaIO\.
- Served as a Customer Success Manager at Doppel, a digital risk protection company backed by a16z, South Park Commons, and SVAngel\.
- Served as a Client Manager and Enterprise Account Executive at Optiv\.
- Served as a Customer Account Manager at CrowdStrike\.
- Earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting Information Systems from San Jose State University\.

## Experience

- **Founding Account Executive at ChainPatrol** (2026\-05\-01–present)
- **Customer Success Manager at Doppel** (2025\-02\-01–2026\-05\-01) — Modern digital risk protection\. We protect brands from phishing and other digital threats\. Backed by a16z, South Park Commons, and SVAngel\.
- **Client Manager \- Enterprise Account Executive at Optiv** (2022\-07\-01–2025\-02\-01)
- **Customer Account Manager at CrowdStrike** (2020\-09\-01–2022\-07\-01)
- **Inside Sales Manager at WekaIO** (2020\-02\-01–2020\-09\-01)
- **Inside Sales Team Lead at WekaIO** (2019\-08\-01–2020\-02\-01)
- **Inside Sales at WekaIO** (2018\-10\-01–2019\-08\-01) — WekaIO has built the world's fastest shared file system for AI, machine learning and technical computing workloads\. The solution accelerates compute intensive applications so that data scientists, researchers and engineers get to the answer faster\. And it saves tremendous cost by ensuring expensive CPU and GPU infrastructure is not idling waiting for data\. WekaIO Matrix software runs on standard server infrastructure, on premises or in the cloud, and can be deployed as a dedicated appliance or hyperconverged in the application servers\.
- **Outbound Business Representative at Sumo Logic** (2018\-01\-01–2018\-10\-01) — Sumo Logic is the next\-generation machine data intelligence company that leverages Big Data for real\-time IT insights\. The company's cloud\-based service provides customers like Airbnb, McGraw\-Hill, GoGo Inflight and Twitter with real\-time interactive analytics at unprecedented petabyte scale\. The Sumo Logic service is powered by patent\-pending Elastic Log Processing™ and LogReduce™ technologies, and transforms machine data into actionable insights for IT operations, application management, and security and compliance teams\. Unlike expensive and complex premise\-based solutions, the Sumo Logic service has a low TCO, can be deployed instantly, scales elastically and requires zero maintenance\. The company is based in Silicon Valley and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures\. Q1 \- 175% Q2 \- 160% \#1 Outbound SDR\- May 2018
- **Business Development Representative at Fivesky** (2017\-04\-01–2018\-01\-01)
- **Account Manager at Lynbrook** (2017\-01\-01–2017\-04\-01)
- **Sales Development Representative at Lynbrook** (2016\-03\-01–2017\-04\-01)

## Education

- High School Diploma — Galileo Academy of Science and Technology
- Bachelor's degree, Accounting Information Systems — San Jose State University

## FAQ

### What does John do at ChainPatrol?

John is the Founding Account Executive at ChainPatrol\. He focuses on building relationships that drive revenue and customer success\.

### What are John’s core sales and customer\-success strengths?

John has five years of experience in full\-cycle sales\. His listed strengths include sales, account management, channel partners, sales operations, research, customer satisfaction, lead generation, Salesforce\.com, leadership, customer service, team building, time management, business partner relations, and customer success\.

### What did John do at Doppel?

John worked as a Customer Success Manager at Doppel\. Doppel provides modern digital risk protection, protecting brands from phishing and other digital threats, and is backed by a16z, South Park Commons, and SVAngel\.

### What was John’s role at Optiv?

John served as a Client Manager and Enterprise Account Executive at Optiv\.

### What was John’s role at CrowdStrike?

John worked as a Customer Account Manager at CrowdStrike\.

### What did John do at WekaIO?

John held three roles at WekaIO: Inside Sales, Inside Sales Team Lead, and Inside Sales Manager\. WekaIO built a shared file system for AI, machine learning, and technical\-computing workloads\. Its Matrix software accelerates compute\-intensive applications, helps data scientists, researchers, and engineers reach answers faster, and helps prevent expensive CPU and GPU infrastructure from idling while waiting for data\. The software runs on standard server infrastructure on premises or in the cloud and can be deployed as a dedicated appliance or hyperconverged in application servers\.

### What did John do at Sumo Logic?

John was an Outbound Business Representative at Sumo Logic\. Sumo Logic provides cloud\-based machine\-data intelligence for real\-time IT insights, including interactive analytics at petabyte scale for IT operations, application management, and security and compliance teams\. Its service is powered by Elastic Log Processing and LogReduce technologies, offers low total cost of ownership, can be deployed instantly, scales elastically, and requires zero maintenance\. The company is based in Silicon Valley and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures\.

### What results did John achieve at Sumo Logic?

At Sumo Logic, John achieved 175% of target in Q1 and 160% in Q2\. He was also named the \#1 Outbound SDR in May 2018\.

### What was John’s role at Fivesky?

John worked as a Business Development Representative at Fivesky\.

### What did John do at Lynbrook?

John held both Account Manager and Sales Development Representative roles at Lynbrook\.

### What is John’s educational background?

John earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting Information Systems from San Jose State University\. He also earned a high school diploma from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology\.

### What tools and technical platforms does John list?

John’s listed tools and productivity skills include Salesforce\.com, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Sumo Logic\.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/john\-chen\-b2338555

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