Fred Ackerman

Fred has over thirty years of direct sales, channel sales and business development experience, the last twenty in high tech.
He has led regional and national sales organizations ranging from start-up companies to a major, Fortune 1000 publisher.
Prior to joining Appian, Fred was the Vice President of Sales for both Hummingbird Ltd. and Open Text Corporation.
While at Open Text, he held various positions: he established their Federal Government Sales Group - growing revenues from $1 million to over $8 million in two years; he managed all North American Channel Sales and all Field Marketing Activities as Vice President of Business Development; and he was Vice President of North American Sales.
Fred was part of the Open Text Management team that saw the company's revenue grow from $20 million to over $150 million in three years.
Fred's experience also includes managing channel sales with a start-up technology company, growing revenue by 200% in one year, and managing both the sales and marketing activities of another technology company, growing revenue in eighteen months from $150 thousand to over $4 million.