Chris Blaine

Chris Blaine has been in the customer service and business development industry for over 20 years. Chris is currently the Chief Customer Officer at Planday, a position they have held since February of 2022. Prior to their current role, Chris served as the Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA & APAC for Sojern from September 2015 to February 2022. In this role, Chris was responsible for the Asia Pacific region and all customer-facing functions. Their leadership team consisted of three Managing Directors and a Sr. Director of Strategic Partnerships, supporting 55 employees across the region.

Before their time at Sojern, Chris was a Business Development Consultant for The Indigo Project from August 2014 to November 2014. In this role, they took over as Site Director for an inbound sales call center in Waco, TX. Chris was responsible for relocating the operations to a larger facility and tripling the size of the team to 250 employees in just 6 months. Chris also carried an annual revenue target of $300M from the sale of consumer desktops, laptops, software, accessories, and services. As an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and local business community, Chris helped promote the call center and recruit the best sales talent from the greater Waco area, including Baylor University. Additionally, Chris was responsible for managing call center ops, compensation, training, forecasting, quarterly vendor demos, and facilities management for the site.

Throughout their career, Chris has demonstrated his

Chris Blaine has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from Syracuse University and a MBA in Marketing/Marketing Management from William & Mary – Raymond A. Mason School of Business.

Their manager is Christian Brøndum, CEO. A direct report to Chris Blaine is and Brett Smith - VP, Customer Success. They work with Birgitte Pihl - Chief People Officer, Anders Frederiksen - Chief Corporate Development Officer & Co-Founder, and Stephen Lucas - Chief Financial and Operations Officer.