Salesforce Veteran to Bring Sharp Focus on Delivering Customer Value
Blackbaud, the leading provider of software for powering social impact, announced it has appointed Bill Fort as senior vice president, North America sales. Fort will report to Chief Commercial Officer David Benjamin and will lead Blackbaud’s U.S. and Canadian sales teams focused on serving social impact customers, from nonprofits, foundations, and arts and cultural institutions to K-12 independent schools and higher education universities.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Bill to the team,” said David Benjamin, chief commercial officer, Blackbaud. “Bill brings with him a wealth of cloud software sales leadership experience and a deep passion for driving social impact that make him a great fit to take our passionate team of account executives into the next era of delivering value to help customers across North America go further, faster. We’re excited to learn from him and for our customers to benefit from his extensive background in the sector.”
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Fort has 25 years of experience leading software sales teams across CRM, accounting, marketing automation, and reporting, as well as artificial intelligence. He was previously area vice president of sales at Salesforce, where he led multiple teams across sectors, from enterprise higher education to K-12, nonprofit, and Canadian sales. Prior to Salesforce, he held leadership positions at Oracle, SAP, SAS Institute, and CGI.
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Fort holds a degree from California State University, Chico. He began his career working with inner-city teens and has continued to support the nonprofit community through volunteer leadership, philanthropy, and board service.
“This role is a great combination of my professional experience and personal passion, bringing my decades of experience to bear for a company that’s fully focused on helping charitable organizations achieve greater impact,” said Fort. “I look forward to diving in with our teams across sales, customer success and support to ensure our customers have the best tools, resources and partnership to achieve their missions.”
