According to Alumni Spotlight, There will be many famous Entrepreneurs in 2023. Each of them is bringing the country’s economy to a higher peak with their efforts and success. They offer new employment opportunities in their sector. Below we will discuss one of them, he is Eric Poley.
As Senior Vice President of Sales at Opentrons’ Pandemic Response Lab (PRL), he oversees the most extensive COVID testing programs nationwide, including eldercare, back-to-school, and state/city government programs. Through its nationwide lab footprint, PRL processes more than 7 million COVID tests and provides critical variant sequencing to state/city governments to help combat this pandemic. PRL is expanding its menu to hundreds of updated tests to deliver the same cost-effective, fastest, and scale benefits across the entire US healthcare system. With Softbank’s recent $200M in funding, the valuation of Opentrons increased from $90M to $1.8B in 12 months.
Before joining Opentrons-PRL, Poley served in sales/GTM leadership roles at several early-stage B2B technology companies that became industry leaders, starting as a founding member of Salesforce.com’s enterprise sales practice under Marc Benioff at the company’s 2004 IPO. SignalFX recently acquired Splunk ($1.05 billion) in 2019. Poley earned a BA in finance from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in entrepreneurship from Babson’s Olin School of Business.
Know about his past 4 jobs
| Organization name | Title at company | Joining date | End date |
| Mendix | VP of Sales, North America | March 2016 | January 2018 |
| Objective logistics | VP of Sales | October 2011 | March 2014 |
| Veracode | Vice president of sales | September 2006 | September 2010 |
| JW player | VP enterprise of Sales | July 2014 |
He studies in Babson College. Do you want to know more details about him? Follow him on Twitter
