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David Pessis
VP/GM of Product and Engineering at Smartsheet
David Pessis is the Vice President of Product and Engineering at Smartsheet, a software-as-a-service company that helps organizations manage their digital assets.1 He played a key role in Smartsheet's migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2019-2020, which significantly improved the company's scalability, performance, and customer experience.1
Prior to his role at Smartsheet, Pessis co-founded PointDrive, a sales engagement software company.2 PointDrive was acquired by LinkedIn in July 2016, following a year of LinkedIn being a customer of the company.2 Pessis founded PointDrive in 2013 while he was still completing his MSIT (Master of Science in Information Technology) program at Northwestern University.2