HRExaminer Radio – Executive Conversations: Episode #326: Damon Gage, President North America at Vervoe
Description
HRx Radio – Executive Conversations: On Friday mornings, John Sumser interviews key executives from around the industry. The conversation covers what makes the executive tick and what makes their company great.
HRx Radio – Executive Conversations
Guest: Damon Gage President North America, Head Of Sales, Vervoe
Episode: 326
Air Date: May 24, 2019
Guest Bio
Damon Gage President North America, Head Of Sales, at Vervoe. Damon is passionate about working with teams and helping them realize better ways of utilizing technology, and through understanding data. At Vervoe, Damon has channeled that passion on the hiring process with a keen concentration on diversity and inclusion. His previous experience building teams has led him to believe that job candidates should be selected based on how they perform a job, not on their background.
As a president of North America at Vervoe, Damon promotes the company’s mission, leads their go-to-market and operational strategies, and is responsible for all things customer-focused globally. Before joining Vervoe, Damon’s specialty was in leading the go-to-market strategy for cutting-edge SaaS-based startups, and enabling growth from zero revenue through acquisition. Damon was part of the early WebEx team that was instrumental in the Cisco acquisition, and he worked with Cisco for many years after.
Having been a leader at both large corporations and in the startup sector, Damon has a unique perspective on workplace culture, motivation, and what makes teams successful. Damon holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Colorado State University with a concentration in Marketing. Damon lives at the coast in Northern California with his family. Having sailed the South Pacific for three years when he was young, Damon has a lifelong love of the ocean and is an avid surfer.
Transcript
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Full Transcript with timecode
00:00:14 :08 – 00:00:25 :09
Hey, good morning and welcome HRExaminer’s Executive Conversations . I’m your host Jon Sumser and today we’re going to be talking with Damon Gage from Vervoe.
00:00:25 :09 – 00:00:26 :10
Damon how are you?
00:00:26 :10 – 00:00:29 :21
Good morning John. I’m well, thanks for having me on this morning.
00:00:29 :25 – 00:00:32 :24
Would you take a moment and introduce yourself?
00:00:32 :24 – 00:01:09 :12
Sure John. Happy to do so. Interestingly enough I don’t have an extremely long history in the HR and create space but I was introduced to our co-founders at Vervoe, Omer Molad and David Weinberg by one of our board directors and immediately fell in love with their passion about the space and specifically the excitement around the problem that they’re solving within the market space. My career specifically John has been working with teams to better realize ways of utilizing technology and simply doing that for the understanding of data.
00:01:09 :14 – 00:01:25 :09
Now with Vervoe and able to really focus that passion around. The hiring process and then more importantly working diligently to better understand the diversity and inclusion, diversity and inclusion challenges that are within the space. So you’re starting about
00:01:27 :03 – 00:01:33 :04
Crosstalk: So you’re a surfer, I am, and I live in northern California on the coast in the Half Moon Bay Area actually.
00:01:33 :12 – 00:01:35 :05
So how often do you get out and surf?
00:01:35 :18 – 00:01:36 :29
Not nearly enough John.
00:01:37 :01 – 00:01:39 :00
I mean you know it’s
00:01:40 :29 – 00:01:48 :02
not nearly enough. But I do try to get out a few days a week with no weekends maybe very early morning you know
00:01:48 :08 – 00:01:52 :15
Yeah, not nearly enough. A few days a week seems to be
00:01:53 :02 – 00:01:55 :24
non overlapping circles in a venn diagram
00:01:57 :11 – 00:02:01 :25
that sounds pretty good. So, you put a wet suit on and go out and look like Shark food!
00:02:03 :02 – 00:02:11 :02
I do, wetsuit, booties, gloves you name it you know. You know the Northern California coast and it’s a little chilly in our water.
00:02:11 :12 – 00:02:27 :00
It is a little chilly, so I don’t think there are a lot of surfers running American HR tech companies. It’s a unique class that you’re setting. You think surfing has something to teach your management about this process?
00:02:28 :00 – 00:03:00 :25
That is an interesting question. There is, there’s certainly a peacefulness that comes along the surface which is why I love it allows me to get away from all the noise that we hear on a daily basis and allows me to kind of focus i
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