CMO
Front
David Slater is the CMO of Front, a unicorn CX platform backed by Sequoia and Salesforce Ventures. With $100M+ ARR in the rearview mirror, heās now busy helping Front barrel into the AI eraāstarting with customer service and a healthy disregard for business-as-usual.
Before Front, Dave led brand and marketing teams at Salesforce, Adobe, and Mozillaāwhere he pulled off a revenue turnaround that made the CFO smile (and that never happens). He also founded Flixlab, a global video app, giving him startup scars and some great branding war stories.
Daveās specialty? Cutting through noise, aligning teams around a clear story, and building brands that actually mean something to customers and employees. Heās especially skilled at explaining the importance of brand to non-marketersāgetting even the most skeptical engineers and finance folks to buy in.
Heās also served on the board of a major SF arts nonprofit and volunteers with The Marine Mammal Center, helping rehabilitate injured sea lions and sealsābecause building brands isnāt the only kind of rehabilitation he believes in. Dave holds degrees from UC Berkeley (MBA), Stanford (MA in Learning, Design, and Technology), and Ithaca College (BS in Comms), but his true credentials are forged in the chaos of rebrands, product launches, and making the complex feel simple.