Rick Laner

Rick Laner

Customer Advocate, Coach, Advisor

Elastic•United States

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Experience30+ Years
LevelCXO

Executive Overview

Rick Laner has more than 25 years of experience in Customer Success, Professional Services and Sales Management. The past 16 years have been focused in the Enterprise Software Technology sector. Rick has deep experience in areas such as Customer Success, Consulting/Pre-Sales/Support/Software Sales, Software Implementations, Services Best Practices, License Sales, Acquiring Companies, Organizational Change, Offshoring and People Development. 
 Since 1996, Rick has held leadership roles in Customer Success, Services, Pre-sales and Sales at both global and geographic levels from small to large size Software organizations. A forward-looking strategist and General Manager of the Professional Services Organization at BMC, Rick is a competitive, results-driven Sales and Services executive who creates value realization for customers by solving problems they may not know exist in their businesses. He is a persuasive C-suite influencer able to translate and distill complex, multi-faceted concepts into impactful, actionable messages. Rick is also a collaborative leader of global teams who incisively identifies, develops and motivates talent to grow, drive positive impact and create successful outcomes for their organization.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • ElasticCurrent
    Sep 2021–Present· 5 yrs 1 mo
    • Chief Customer OfficerCurrent
      Sep 2021–Present
  • Nov 2022–May 2025· 2 yrs 6 mos
    • Advisor - CCO
      Nov 2022–May 2025
  • Feb 2019–Sep 2021· 2 yrs 7 mos
    • Senior Vice President, CSG (Mulesoft WW Services & Support)
      Feb 2019–Sep 2021
  • Apr 2017–2019· 1 yr 9 mos
    • Global VP Services & Support - Office of the CTO
      Apr 2017–2019
  • Apr 2016–2018· 1 yr 9 mos
    • Advisor - Customer Success
      Apr 2016–2018
  • Feb 2015–Feb 2017· 2 yrs
    • VP Services & Customer Success - Worldwide
      Feb 2015–Feb 2017
  • May 2001–2015· 13 yrs 8 mos
    • VP - Consulting Services - Worldwide
      Apr 2011–2015
    • VP - Global Services & Software Consulting - Asia Pacific
      Apr 2006–Mar 2011
    • Director - Consulting Services and Software Consulting - Australia & New Zealand
      Apr 2004–Mar 2006
    • Software Consulting Manager - Southern Australia
      Apr 2003–Mar 2004
    • Services Sales Executive - Southern Australia
      May 2001–Apr 2003
  • 1996–Apr 2001· 5 yrs 3 mos
    • General Manager and Co-Founder
      1996–Apr 2001

Education

Bachelor's degree

Business - Information Technology

CQUniversity

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Rick Laner
Vice Chair & President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer

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Skills & Expertise

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IT Service ManagementLeadershipSaaSPre-salesManagementSales ManagementSolution SellingSales EnablementCustomer SuccessProgram ManagementConsultingCloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureOutsourcingService ManagementBusiness Service ManagementProfessional ServicesEnterprise SoftwareCustomer InsightITIL