Leadership Team

Andy Zimmerman, VP Business Development

Andy Zimmerman, vice president of business development, is responsible for developing and managing strategic partnerships and driving channel sales for Brainshark. Andy is also responsible for international channels and developing new markets for Brainshark solutions.

Prior to joining Brainshark, Andy was SVP of sales & marketing at Theikos, a leading CRM consulting and software-as-a-service solution provider (now part of Astadia), where he was instrumental in driving the company's rapid growth, building its Salesforce.com services business, and launching its AppFactor On-Demand Solutions division. In his career, Andy also served as director of sales operations at Virtusa Corp., a large application development outsourcing firm and as director of business development at edocs, the leading self-service & e-billing software company acquired by Siebel Systems in 2004. Andy also managed strategic alliances at telco billing software provider Kenan Systems prior to its $1.5B acquisition by Lucent in 1999, and was a certified IT Management Consultant with IBM Global Services.

Andy earned his BA from Brown University and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.