Chad Reese

A technology industry veteran with 25 years of experience serving in leadership positions at IBM® and, most recently, VMware®, Reese leads sales at SolarWinds for the enterprise, mid-market, and SMB markets and the public sector in the Americas and is responsible for the company’s global channel ecosystem.

Prior to joining SolarWinds, Reese most recently served as the VMware global head of sales for the commercial customer segment, where he led his extended sales teams to drive billions in bookings worldwide.

While at IBM, Reese served as the company’s vice president of cloud and SaaS for North America, leading the sales team to grow and transform its business in cloud and SaaS software in the enterprise and commercial segments. And previously, Reese led the IBM channel business in Europe as vice president of the business partner organization while living abroad for five years with responsibility for driving billions in revenue across the company’s extended partner ecosystem.