Kelly Breslin Wright

Kelly Breslin Wright has over 25 years of experience in leadership, sales, operations, and strategy roles. She has deep Go-To-Market experience and has helped teams navigate through multiple stages of company growth, through IPO, global expansion, leadership transitions, business model changes, and the demands of being a private and public company. Kelly spent 12 years at Tableau Software (now part of Salesforce) as Executive Vice President, Sales. She joined Tableau as the company’s first salesperson in 2005, one month before the launch of version 1, and she helped grow Tableau into a multi-billion-dollar public company as a key member of the executive team. She grew Tableau’s worldwide sales and field operations from zero to $850m in revenue and managed over half of Tableau’s global team as the company grew to 3,400 employees. Kelly was responsible for all worldwide sales and field operations, including Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Services, Training, Technical Support, Customer Success, Sales Operations, and Sales Readiness. She now does board work, advising, and speaking. Kelly is a Board Director at Fastly (NYSE: FSLY), Lucid, Amperity, and Even. She is a Board Advisor at Asana, data.world, Hyperproof and for the Professional Sales Program at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. She sits on the Stanford LEAD Council and is a Stanford Seattle Advisor. Kelly teaches a full course on this same subject to full-time and executive MBA students. Kelly is a frequent speaker and is active in multiple organizations advocating for more women on corporate boards.

Education

• BA Stanford University (1988 — 1992)
• MBA University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School (1996 — 1998)