Chatmeter,
the leader in local search marketing and reputation management, today
announced several key appointments to its leadership team including Sridhar
Nagarajan, Vice President of Product; Coua Phang, Director of
Human Resources; and Justin Allen, Director of Sales. The
appointments are reflective of the company’s consistent growth,
which includes 1,000% revenue growth since pivoting the technology to
support multi-location businesses five years ago. The growth reflects
the spike of major national brands addressing the increasing importance
of local search, online reputation management, and voice
engine optimization.
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Chatmeter continues to invest in its talent and technology across the
board, hiring 22 specialists in the last six months alone in roles
spanning from product management, SEO strategy and listings management
to customer service, product development, finance and more. The expanded
leadership team, in addition to latest new hires, cement Chatmeter’s
expertise in the local reputation market across retail, restaurants,
healthcare, financial services, and auto.
Expanded Chatmeter leadership team includes former PayPal senior
product expert, active SHRM advocate and former GoDaddy business
development leader
Sridhar
Nagarajan, VP of Product — Nagarajan is an expert in
bringing customer-focused SaaS products to a global market. Most
recently, he built the go-to-market team at Ecwid, a startup
helping democratize e-commerce. Prior to that, Nagarajan spent almost a
decade at PayPal, scaling its product team and building a global
payments solution for SMBs and Enterprises.
Coua
Phang, Director of Human Resources — Phang has proven
success in creating cultures of collaboration and implementing change to
achieve workforce excellence. In her 11+ years of experience, she has
excelled in the areas of transformational leadership, intercultural
communication, and team building. She will play a key role in keeping
Chatmeter’s employee culture strong as the company expands and will be
responsible for recruiting top talent within the industry.
Justin
Allen, Director of Sales — Allen holds over 15 years of
Internet Marketing experience and has helped lead the growth of several
companies including GoDaddy and Internet Brands. He
specializes in scaling sales organizations and building out efficient
sales teams. He will be part of a team tasked with expanding the
Chatmeter brand to its full potential.
“Sridhar, Coua and Justin are crucial additions to our fast-growing
Chatmeter team and add tremendously to our culture of constant
innovation,” said Collin
Holmes, CEO of Chatmeter. “Chatmeter’s recent success has helped
us to continue the investment we’ve made in building the strongest team
possible. We have a technology solution we know is important, and it’s
one that our whole team stands behind – it’s important that we stay true
to our culture and mission and a big part of that is finding the right
talent to be a part of that.”
This momentum comes in the wake of Chatmeter’s recent inclusion in the
Forrester report, “Now
Tech: Social Suites, Q2 2019” (June 17, 2019), and its own commitment
to research to help industries better understand the value of local
brand management and impact on local searches and online visibility.
To learn more about how your company can improve the customer experience
and improve revenue, check out Chatmeter’s
blog.
About Chatmeter
Chatmeter (www.chatmeter.com)
helps enterprise retail brands and agencies managing multiple locations
increase their revenue. Since being the first Local Reputation platform
in 2009, they now analyze and improve over 1,900,000 storefronts for
their reviews, rankings and listings.
They help retailers make a distinct impact in revenue by identifying
several areas in their online presence that drives customers to choose
their stores over competitors. Chatmeter takes this a step further with
the only integrated local visibility rank tracker so you can measure ROI
using the most complete local presence management platform in the world.
The benefit for the clients is complete online presence management
simplified into a single dashboard. They also power a white-label
reputation management dashboard for many agencies across the U.S.
Some clients include Sears Home Services, Sherwin-Williams, OneMain
Financial, The Richman Group, Save-A-Lot, Pinnacle Health System, and
Dickey’s BBQ.
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