Summary
Dave Frankel is a GTM and sales leader with a decade of experience scaling go-to-market operations across cloud, observability, and enterprise software. Based in Austin, he has progressed from hands-on cloud solutions engineering at RightScale to senior leadership roles at Grafana Labs and regional sales leadership at Windsurf and Cognition, now driving GTM at Parallel Web Systems. He blends technical credibility—rooted in infrastructure and cloud architecture—with strategic sales execution, enabling complex platform deals across the Americas and LATAM. Known for building and coaching solutions engineering teams, he bridges pre-sales engineering and commercial strategy to shorten sales cycles and increase deal velocity. A Tulane BS graduate, he pairs an engineer’s attention to detail with a sales leader’s discipline for process and metrics. Colleagues often cite his knack for translating technical roadmaps into compelling customer outcomes as a differentiator.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Tulane University