Douglas Smith is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He has worked with industry leaders such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, Ingram Micro, and CDW in creating innovative business plans that generate exponential revenue growth, increased investment ROI, and partner satisfaction. Smith specializes in sales leadership, strategic alliances, partner programs, mergers and acquisitions, partner strategy, OEM partnerships, resellers, SaaS, cloud computing, enterprise software, storage, partner training, partner communications, partner operations, partner solutions, partner support, and software license programs. He has international management experience across major markets including APAC, EMEA, and Latin America.

Smith studied MBA in Business at the University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business, and BS in Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He founded and owned Fast Fix Denver at Jewelry Repair Enterprises Inc DBA Fast Fix Jewelry and Watch Repairs, was the founder and Principal Consultant at PartnerWright, Vice President, Global Partner Sales at Virtual Instruments, Vice-Chair: Vendor Advisory Board at CompTIA, Vice President, Global Partner Strategy & Operations at VMware, Sr. Director Business Development at EMC Corporation, Vice President of Sales at Tecmar, Director of Channel Sales & Marketing at Exabyte Corporation, Sales Representative at Elgar Corp.

Smith is a sought-after speaker for numerous industry engagements, including the Baptie Conference, COMPTIA BreakAway, and the Social Innovation Summit 2012. He optimized VMware's channel investment strategy, managed a global team that doubled the partner base, and executed the company's first comprehensive outreach campaign strategy across diverse social media outlets as well as a partner portal servicing 35K channel partners and 400K worldwide users.