Cy Winkenhofer is a highly proficient and experienced sales professional with more than 10 years of technology-related sales and business development experience. With a passion for innovative problem-solving, Cy is skilled in simplifying sales processes and reducing lead times to the client. With seven years of direct field experience selling software or cloud solutions to the Fortune 1000, Cy has the knowledge to identify, develop, negotiate, and close large-scale technology deals while proactively growing customer relationships within an account, expanding their understanding of the customer's business.

As a former Regional Sales Director at LiveAction - Network Performance Management, Enterprise Account Executive at Riverbed Technology, and Account Executive Team Leader - New York/New Jersey at VMware, Cy has developed expertise in cloud computing, IT process and infrastructure management, disaster recovery, managed services, and demand and resource management. Cy has developed skills in Salesforce.com, Software as a Service (SaaS), storytelling, problem-solving, Big Data, machine learning, Log Management and Analytics, SaaS-based delivery models, DevOps, security, application development and rationalization, mobility, identity and access management, APIs, IT strategy, financial modeling as well as negotiating skills, relationship building, creating ROI business cases, and solving business problems.

Cy is a graduate of Texas State University-San Marcos with studies in Business/Corporate Communications. Before joining the tech industry, Cy was a Noncommissioned Officer at the US Army and NBC Specialist at the US Army.