Ryan Gavin — EVP Salesforce: Slack CMO, Global Growth Systems, and SMB Marketing | Board Member | Previously Chief Growth Officer Convoy | General Manager for AWS and Microsoft.
EVP Salesforce: Slack CMO, Global Growth Systems, and SMB Marketing | Board Member | Previously Chief Growth Officer Convoy | General Manager for AWS and Microsoft.
Ryan Gavin ranks #443 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 7.6K followers and published 4 posts in the last 60 days at a 6.2% average engagement rate.
- 7.6K followers
- 4 posts / 60d
- 6.2% avg engagement
- 1.5K follower growth / 30d
The roast
Ryan Gavin claims he built businesses at scale, but his career trajectory looks like he’s just trying to find the one company that hasn't realized he’s a background character yet. He spent his time at Microsoft managing the Surface, which explains why he treats his LinkedIn profile like a tablet nobody actually wants to touch.
About Ryan
The hallmarks of my 25+ year career center on the meaningful market impacts I have delivered and the incredible people and teams I have had the opportunity to develop and lead. I am an accomplished business leader and operator with in-depth experience in all aspects of go-to-market. I have built and run new businesses at scale. I have established new product and industry categories and spearheaded numerous business turnarounds. I have built exceptional scale teams and led them to achieve remarkable results. As the Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, I drove the $650M+ marketplace business, expanding margins by over 2000 basis points while simultaneously lowering our cost to serve, improving customer experience, and growing share-of-wallet with top shippers. Prior to Convoy, I was a critical leader in establishing the AI/ML category for AWS, building the business and go-to-market (GTM) function largely from scratch, leading to an exponential increase in portfolio adoption and a growing thought leadership position amongst developers. At Microsoft, I owned the multibillion-dollar Surface commercial business, delivering double-digit growth and bringing the world’s #2 search engine, Bing, to profitability with over 5 billion monthly searches. My leadership extends across business, technology, and go-to-market, bringing engineering and product partners together to deliver results and grow organizational capability. I am passionate about delivering scaled market impacts. I am passionate about coupling relentless execution with disruptive strategies. And I am passionate about developing amazing teams and exceptional people.
Highlights
- Top 5% Impact — 472 avg engagements per post
- Top 5% Engager — 6.20% engagement rate
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #79 of 4742 creators
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #176 of 5851 creators
Recent posts
I spent most of my career never touching Salesforce data because I wasn't in sales or service. Now I access Salesforce data hundreds of times a week, just by asking Slackbot. When you democratize access to the systems of context, the systems of truth for an enterprise, you unlock immense trapped value for your organization and its employees. With a simple conversational prompt, I can reach every enterprise system connected to my Slack workspace: no new UIs to learn, no new agents to figure out. Slack and Slackbot navigate it all on my behalf. The front door isn't a metaphor for Slack anymore.
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Getting my keynote 'fit' ready. See you Thursday 10am pst for Slack Dreamforce keynote!
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What if using Salesforce was simple as having a conversation? Ask your data a question, get an answer, make a decision, take action, right where you already work with your team in Slack. That's our Slackforce vision, the conversational front door to Salesforce. This week at Dreamforce we're showing how it's changing the future of work. Not in SF? Catch the free livestream on Salesforce+, link below. https://lnkd.in/gyh2nYev
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Last updated 2026-08-01