Seattle-based sales technology company Outreach announced co-founder Manny Medina has relinquished the CEO role after leading the company for the past 10 years.
Abhijit Mitra, who joined the company last year as president of product and technology, has been named the new CEO effective immediately. Medina will become executive chairman of the board.
“I’ve worked very closely with Abhijit and have seen him excel as a leader. He has earned our customers’ trust and that is the most important thing to me. Outreach is in great hands with Abhijit," Medina said in a news release.
Before joining Outreach, Mitra was the chief product officer at the health care tech company Commure for more than a year, before which he spent about seven years at the software company ServiceNow in management roles. He had nine-year stints at Oracle and SAP earlier in his career.
An Outreach spokesperson said Mitra will be based in the Bay Area, but he often travels to Seattle, where the company has an office in Interbay.
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Outreach, founded in 2014, helps sales reps create playbooks, manage deals and analyze their sales pipelines. The company says on its website it has more than 6,000 clients, including Okta, Siemens and Verizon. Outreach was valued at more than $4.4 billion in 2021 when the company raised $200 million.
The company has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs since the raise. Its most recent round of cuts was in September of last year, when the company laid off about 120 people. The Outreach spokesperson said the company has 750 employees now.
Medina spent more than two years as the CEO of the hiring platform GroupTalent before joining Outreach, according to his LinkedIn page, before which he spent more than six years at Microsoft.
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