Customer Success for Technology Providers - Part 2

Nick is CEO of Gainsight, the Customer Success company that helps businesses improve customer retention, accelerate expansion and capitalize on customer advocacy. He works with a team of nearly 700 (affectionately nicknamed) “Gainsters.” Together, they've created the customer success category that's currently taking over the SaaS business model worldwide. Under Nick's leadership, Gainsight has built an award-winning company culture that is frequently recognized in numerous lists as a “Great Place to Work,” including Inc., Fortune, Glassdoor, Silicon Valley Business Journal, and more.

At the beginning of his career, Nick and some college classmates started online golf retailer Chipshot.com during the “dotcom” era. After that, Nick joined VERITAS Software as a Product Manager and over time became a VP and GM of a division of the company, which then became part of Symantec. Nick’s first CEO role was running the Summit-backed SaaS company, LiveOffice, which grew substantially and eventually sold to Symantec.

Connect on LinkedIn

Nick Verykios has been involved with the IT industry for more than 30 years and has successfully blended entrepreneurial ventures with a career spanning marketing, product development, sales, executive/general management and director’s duties. As the multi award-winning and Industry Hall of Fame inductee, as the CEO of Distribution Central, he steered growth from a start-up business in 2004 to exceed $700 million in revenue in FY 2019, post-acquisition and integration of Arrow Inc.’s ANZ assets. This tremendous growth cemented Arrow ECS ANZ as one of the largest and most profitable IT&T distributors in the ANZ & APAC regions. Nick managed the successful sale of Distribution Central to Arrow Electronics, Inc. Prior to this, in 1994 Nick founded the IT distributor, 1World Systems Pty Ltd and later, co-directed LAN Systems Pty Ltd, both highly profitable ventures, sold to international IT companies. Both companies were considered to be at the forefront of IT distribution and service procurement with their unique business models further deployed in international companies spanning more than twenty countries. LAN Systems was transformed from a $4m distributor into a highly profitable $160m services organisation in just over five years.

Connect on LinkedIn

Scott is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 30 years’ experience building IT companies across Asia Pacific. Scott established iasset.com in 2008 as the world’s first global channel ecosystem for the entire supply chain. iasset.com has received numerous awards including CRN’s Top 50 Emerging Vendors in 2013 and 2014. Scott was also a founder and Executive Chairman of Distribution Central and oversaw its growth from a five-person staff and $1.7 million turnover to more than 160 employees across two countries with revenues exceeding $520 million. The company is a recipient of numerous awards, including BRW Fast 100 awards, 2009 Deloitte Fast 50 Australia and Deloitte Fast 200 APAC. Prior to acquiring Distribution Central, Scott built MarketEntry (Europe), a business consulting company helping small technology companies reach and manage their growth potential which was acquired in 2004. He also founded LAN Systems Pty Ltd (Australia), which rapidly became the largest network distributor in the region and was acquired in 2000. Scott also co-founded Micro Networks Australia Pty Ltd, which was acquired in 1990.

Connect on LinkedIn