About
The authors
Denise PERSSON
Denise serves as Snowflake’s Chief Marketing Officer and has been with the company since 2016. Denise oversees worldwide marketing initiatives, and has played a pivotal role in driving growth and scaling Snowflake's revenue from $1 million to over $2 billion.
As a four-time Chief Marketing Officer who has taken four tech companies public, Denise has over 25 years of technology marketing experience at high-growth companies. Prior to joining Snowflake, she served as CMO for Apigee, an API platform company that went public in 2015 and Google acquired in 2016. She began her career at collaboration software company Genesys, where she built and led a global marketing organization. Denise also helped lead Genesys through its expansion to become a successful IPO and acquired company.
Denise holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm University, and holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
Chris Degnan
Chris was Snowflake’s Chief Revenue Officer and had been with the company since 2013, as the longest-serving founding CRO. Starting as employee #13 and Sales employee #1, Chris built a Go To Market strategy from the ground up, driving sustained high growth and global reach. Under his sales leadership, Snowflake has grown its annual product revenue from $0 to over $1 billion.
Chris has over 20 years of technology sales experience. Prior to Snowflake, Chris served in Sales leadership roles at EMC and Aveksa, and worked in enterprise sales at Informatica and Covalent Technologies (acquired by VMware). He holds a BA from the University of Delaware. Chris is married with 2 daughters and is an avid skier and golfer.