Christian Smith, Chief Revenue Officer at Splunk

Christian Smith is the chief revenue officer at American software company Splunk, working out of Seattle, Washington. He is an executive sales and marketing leader specializing in cloud and hybrid go-to markets with over 25 years of expertise in all phases of growth and scale, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Smith said that he specializes in sales and marketing leadership, which has led him to build “exceptionally high performing teams.” His professional specialties also include cloud, software-as-a-service, metric-driven models, turn around scenarios, scaling sales organizations and acquisition integration.

Smith has been working at Splunk for over five years. He joined the company in 2017 as vice president of Americas sales and quickly moved his way up to his present CRO role.

Concurrently, Smith sits as a board member at California-based technology firm Feedzai. He joined the company, which safeguards global commerce using advanced cloud-based risk management platforms, in October 2021.

Previously, Smith served as chief revenue officer at software company Nintex, where he worked for over three years. In that role, he was responsible for all global go to market including sales, channel programs, field marketing, and customer success and support.

Smith earned his degrees in marketing, advertising and communications from the University of Washington.