D.Wayne Poole

Senior Vice President, Sales &
Client Success

D. Wayne Poole has been with ExactTarget since 2001, and has helped mold ExactTarget from a regional email marketing company to the world's leading provider of interactive, on-demand messaging software. After helping to develop a sales-oriented culture, D. Wayne accepted the challenge of developing ExactTarget's Agency Channel. By leading product development, marketing, and sales enablement efforts, the channel quickly grew to be an important piece of ExactTarget's growth strategy.

In 2004, D. Wayne pioneered ExactTarget's sales operations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the industry's largest sales team. Prior to joining ExactTarget, D. Wayne spent ten years with Ford Motor Company in a wide range of management capacities from regional marketing, operations, and sales to global cross-brand and CRM strategy.

D. Wayne graduated from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis with an emphasis in Marketing and Finance. He resides in Cincinnati, OH with his wife and three daughters.