Chris Federspiel

Chris Federspiel is the CEO and founder of Blackthorn. Prior to Blackthorn, Chris co-founded Plative, a Salesforce services SI, where they grew the company to 32 people and $3M of revenue in the first 1.5 years. Chris has also held sales roles at Silverline and Internet Creations, where they helped grow the company to 25 people. In addition to their work in sales, Chris is also a certified property manager and has founded two companies, Brainiac and PCDVDTeacher.

Chris Federspiel has a degree from The George Washington University and certification from salesforce.com in Salesforce.com Certified Sales Cloud Consultant, Salesforce.com Certified Developer, Salesforce.com Certified Administrator, and Salesforce.com Certified Service Cloud Consultant.

Some direct reports include Ryan-Mae Mcavoy - Operations Manager, Angela Dugan - Solutions Sales Engineer, and Jack Fletcher - Director, Business Development.