Chris Dudley
About Chris Dudley
I help early stage venture backed enterprise software start-ups achieve category dominance by maximizing the success of their customers. I have a decade of experience working alongside founders in Series A to C startups to drive customer success, account management, and sales. I have a record of building scalable foundations, closing & managing strategic deals, driving product direction, and creating powerful customer evangelism. As the global head of Customer Success at Gradle, I drive successful customer journey progression and velocity for all Gradle customers, driving a team of customer success managers and influencing their supporting engineers and sales reps who are responsible for ensuring the satisfaction, retention, and growth of all customers. Gradle Inc. provides Gradle, a top 20 open source project with 60M downloads per month, and Develocity, a data platform for Developer Productivity Engineering, used by the fastest moving Fortune 500 and tech companies in the world including Google, Netflix, Microsoft, and LinkedIn.