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Highspot fills out leadership team with key hires


Julie Valenti
Julie Valenti, Highspot's vice president of account management, is one of several executives recently hired at the company.
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Seattle-based sales software company Highspot is filling out its leadership as it heads into the new year.

On Tuesday, the company announced Arvind Prakash as vice president of product management, John Zhang as vice president of engineering, Julie Valenti as vice president of account management and Kelly Lewis as vice president of revenue enablement.

Highspot has grown substantially since February when it raised $200 million in Series E funding and topped a value of $2.3 billion.

"Fueling our people engine with top talent is the foundation of our strategy," Robert Wahbe, co-founder and CEO of Highspot, said in a news release. "These proven leaders will further enrich our vibrant company culture and play an instrumental role in achieving our vision of transforming the way millions of people work."

In February, Wahbe told the Business Journal that Highspot had about 550 employees. A company spokesperson on Wednesday said Highspot now has about 800 employees.

Valenti joined Highspot from DocuSign, where she spent more than two years and was vice president of customer success management, according to her LinkedIn. Before DocuSign, she spent more than four years at Oracle.

Prakash was previously at Compass for about a year. Before that, he spent more than 14 years at Expedia, where he eventually held the title of vice president of product management and technology for Egencia, Expedia's corporate travel arm, which it sold to American Express Global Business Travel in a deal that closed in November.

Arvind Prakash
Arvind Prakash is Highspot's vice president of product management.
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Zhang had served as general manager for the ads center at Weibo, a social media platform for Chinese-language content. He spent two years at Twitter before that.

Lewis spent more than four years at Amwell, a telehealth platform, before joining Highspot. Her most recent title was vice president of revenue strategy and enablement.

Highspot, founded in 2012, is meant to help sales reps with content management, training and guidance. Its clients include General Motors and Verizon Media.

Highspot made another key hire in September when Amy Johnson joined the company as chief people officer. Johnson brought experience from Bungie and VMware to the growing company.

Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson is Highspot's first chief people officer.
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