Executive Bios
Steve Holton, Senior VP of North American Sales and Field Operations
As senior vice president of North American sales, Steve Holton manages the company’s overall sales strategy and implementation for all Webroot products across the region. Prior to Webroot, Steve Holton was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Managed Services (SaaS), for Entrust Inc. where he oversaw all global sales for Entrust’s security SaaS products and North American sales for all software products. In 2007, Holton’s SaaS sales team increased bookings by 40 percent and recorded its best quarterly sales performance in six years. During Holton’s tenure, Entrust booked a record number of transactions and new customers and took customer renewal rates to 98 percent.
Prior to Entrust, Holton spent nearly five years as Vice President of North America Sales at RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ:RNOW). Holton built and executed a scalable go-to-market plan and SaaS sales machine that helped grow RightNow from a start-up company into a global leader for on-demand CRM software. Holton was instrumental in RightNow Technology’s successful IPO and rapid revenue rise from a $2M to $65M concern.
Holton has a bachelor’s degree from California State University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.