James Lynch

James Lynch has worked in the corporate world for over 30 years. James began their career in 1988 as a National Sales Account Executive for MCI Corporation. For five years, they were a Quota bearing position measured monthly/annually and was a five time MCI Masters/President's Club winner. In 1993, they joined SAP as a Sr Sales Executive, where they were a three time President's Club Award winner. James then moved to MicroStrategy in 1998 as a Sales Manager. In 2001, they became the Director of Sales for Dexma, where they managed sales and business development efforts for large and mid sized lendors/banks/mortgage insurance co's. In 2004, they joined the Bohan Group as the Director of Sales, managing sales and business development efforts across the capital markets and lender sectors. In 2008, they moved to NETEZZA as the VP & GM Financial Services Sales, where they grew the business sector from $25MM-$75MM and had an average deal size of $1.4MM, with 15+ selling teams globally. In 2011, they joined IBM as the VP & GM Big Data Sales, Banking and Financial Markets, managing BigData Industry Sales for Banking and Financial Markets with a $88MM quota across IBM BigData assets. Finally, in 2016, they joined 801 Restaurant Group as the Executive Managing Member.

James Lynch attended Drake University from 1987 to 1988, where they earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Business Administration and Management, General.