Shawn Lankton
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Chief Executive Officer
EnergyCAP
— Energy Management & Sustainability · B2B SaaS,
Resurgens Tech Partners
July 2024 – Present
Chief Executive Officer
CoreView
— Microsoft 365 Management Platform · B2B SaaS,
Insight Partners
Nov 2020 – Nov 2023
3.5x ARR while achieving positive cashflow and turning around retention, product, and relationships with channel partners and Microsoft
>40% ARR Growth: Built channel-based GTM and Microsoft Relationships
Efficiency: from burning $1M per month to cashflow positive with >10% EBITDA
Retention: from 75% gross retention to 94% with 115% NDR and +65 NPS
Product: from a complex/disliked product to a streamlined, beloved, channel-ready product
Doubled team from 60 to 125 in a remote-first performance and metrics-driven culture
Completed acquisition of SimeonCloud
Chief Revenue Officer
MacStadium
— Cloud IaaS for iOS development · DevOps IaaS,
Summit Partners
Jun 2017 – November 2020
9x ARR: Built 20+ person revenue team; created structured, data-driven sales and marketing process
Reshaped product portfolio: Launched new products, updated pricing/positioning
Co-led software acquisition
Chief Marketing Officer
Diligent Corporation
— Modern Governance SaaS · sold for $624M to
Insight Partners
Jun 2015 – Nov 2016
Successful Exit ($624M) with Insight Venture Partners
Quadrupled revenue growth from 10% to 40%
Cut customer acquisition cost (CAC) in half
Led a 30-person global team
Associate Partner, Technology and Software Practice
McKinsey & Company
— New York
Jan 2010 – Jun 2015
Co-founded McKinsey Growth Tech Practice
Built Software Practice and developed McKinsey's first large software clients
Managed, developed, and mentored 50+ consultants
Tripled a storage startup's valuation by rolling out "as a service" pricing
Streamlined startup go to market leading to a $614M exit
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
2001 – 2009
Ph.D.
in Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2009 (highest honors)
Research Focus: computer vision, control theory, differential geometry
NSF fellowship; US
Patent: 2,010,0091,104
13 publications
and US
Patent 8,155,405
MS in Electrical Engineering, 2007
BS in Computer Engineering, 2005 (highest honors)
Interests
Hydroponic gardening, AI agents, weightlifting, building fires, and parenting 2 kids