David Hecht

David has been a Salesforce user and administrator since 2002, and has managed several sales teams and inbound marketing organizations using the Salesforce platform. He was a beta user and customer case study for the Salesforce for Google Adwords product back in 2007.

In addition to founding and managing CloudAmp, he is also a principal in AppFrontier, which makes the popular Chargent Payment Processing for Salesforce application. David is a Salesforce Certified Administrator, and as well the organizer of the Salesforce Data Analytics Meetup, a networking event and new technology showcase held every other month in San Francisco.

David has 23 years of experience marketing and selling Internet services, and has been an entrepreneur at multiple Internet and Cloud Computing startups.

Before founding CloudAmp, David ran Sales and Marketing at cloud monitoring company Cloudkick (and later at Rackspace, after it acquired Cloudkick). Prior to that he was Co-Founder and CMO of GoGrid (now part of Datapipe), a pioneering cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) company, where he handled the Marketing, Sales and Product side of the business.

David had earlier marketing roles at eWork Exchange, a freelance job board, and InReach Internet, a regional dialup Internet Service Provider that brought Internet access to many areas of California for the first time. He received a Humanities degree from Stanford University, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.