Meet Kevin Chieff

I began my career in Sales, Sales Management, and Marketing with IBM, HP, Symbolics, and several startups in the days long before CRM. While at HP, I needed a database of my clients and wrote my first Contact database in Condor, an early RDB. Later, I learned of Act, the first software solution in the new and nascent market of Contact Management, and I became so enthralled that I struck out on my own and became an Act Certified Consultant. As time went on, Act became ‘long in the tooth’ and I found myself becoming restless, and relegated to being a repairman who was always ‘fixing’ Act, applying hot fixes and service packs just to keep it running. When Contact Management gave way to CRM with the disruptive introduction of Salesforce and the emerging Cloud/SaaS offerings, I realized that it was time to move on from Act, and I discovered Zoho, a true Cloud CRM with rich mobile apps and a deep development team from a company that eschewed everything that was wrong with the Silicon Valley mindset – we were both new to the Cloud CRM market and I’ve been a proud, exclusively Zoho Advanced Partner for 9+ years – one of the longest serving partners in the world. What does all of this mean for you? I’m not just a technician – I bring the business experience and knowledge of my years in sales & marketing, along with my implementation skills providing CRM solutions for companies large and small.