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Groove Hires Mike Guerchon as SVP of People

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that Mike Guerchon has joined the company as Senior Vice President of People.

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  • Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that Mike Guerchon has joined the company as Senior Vice President of People.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005515/en/
    Mike Guerchon, SVP of People at Groove.co (Photo: Business Wire)
    Guerchon is exceptionally skilled at building high-performing teams for tech start-ups while shaping a culture of diversity and inclusion.
  • Groove has done an impressive job building and maintaining a very special company culture that has earned it industry awards and a 5.0 rating on Glassdoor, said Mike Guerchon, SVP of People at Groove.
  • Prior to Groove, Guerchon has held executive HR roles at numerous fast-growing technology companies, including Volansi, Okta, IKON, and Riverbed Technology.

Groove and Vertical IQ Partner to Bring Industry Knowledge to Relationship Managers’ Fingertips

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, and Vertical IQ , the leader in Industry Intelligence, today announced a strategic partnership that enables relationship managers and other financial services reps to easily access industry data from within the Groove platform.

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  • Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, and Vertical IQ , the leader in Industry Intelligence, today announced a strategic partnership that enables relationship managers and other financial services reps to easily access industry data from within the Groove platform.
  • Its extensive insight equips marketing, sales, and customer success professionals with highly targeted and relevant industry knowledge to build stronger relationships with prospects and customers.
  • With Groove and Vertical IQ, reps can now get access to industry knowledge in a single click from wherever they work.
  • Joint customers of Groove and Vertical IQ can take advantage of the integration immediately at no extra cost.

Groove Wins Two 2022 Stevie® Awards for Customer Service

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Groove received a Silver Stevie Award for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year and a Bronze Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year.

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  • Groove received a Silver Stevie Award for Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year and a Bronze Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year.
  • The Stevies Customer Service Department of the Year Award recognizes everyone who works formally in customer service, regardless of their role or location, while the Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year Award recognizes service teams that directly engage customers.
  • The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the worlds top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals.
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    Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

Groove Earns Five G2 2022 Best Software Awards

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that it has earned awards in five categories of G2s 2022 Best Software Awards.

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  • Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that it has earned awards in five categories of G2s 2022 Best Software Awards.
  • Groove earned a spot on the G2 2022 Best Software Product lists for Sales, Enterprise, Office, and Global Sellers.
  • G2s Best Software Awards rank the worlds best software companies and products based on authentic, timely reviews from real users.
  • After evaluating more than 4 million data points across more than 100,000 software products and services, G2 ranked Groove as a top 50 software company in four of the following five categories:
    Grooves recognition as a Best Software Product for Sales, Enterprise, and Global Sellers maps directly back to its flexible Salesforce-native platform .

Groove Hires Craig Thomas as SVP of Operations

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that Craig Thomas has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations.

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  • Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that Craig Thomas has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations.
  • A 30-year industry veteran, Craig has a proven track-record helping high-growth companies like Oracle, Apple, Jasper, and ThousandEyes scale their operations to successful exits.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220125005456/en/
    Craig Thomas, SVP of Operations at Groove (Photo: Business Wire)
    As SVP of Operations, Craig heads up Grooves Finance, Legal, GTM Operations, and other initiatives designed to accelerate the companys growth in the U.S. and internationally.
  • After experiencing the transformative power of Groove firsthand as a very happy customer at ThousandEyes, I couldnt resist the opportunity to help guide Grooves next level of growth, said Craig Thomas, SVP of Operations at Groove.

Groove Wins 2022 Best Feature Set and Best Relationship Awards from TrustRadius

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that it has won 2022 Best Feature Set and Best Relationship awards from TrustRadius.

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  • Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce, today announced that it has won 2022 Best Feature Set and Best Relationship awards from TrustRadius.
  • In receiving Best Of awards for Feature Set and Relationship, Groove won two of the three 2022 awards offered in the sales engagement category.
  • Groove also won Best Customer Service and Best Usability in the 2021 TrustRadius Best of awards .
  • Groove has won two awards for Best Feature Set and Best Relationship in the Sales Engagement Platforms category, said Megan Headley, VP of Research at TrustRadius.

Groove Wins 2021 Comparably Award for Best Company Culture

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Monday, December 13, 2021

Grooves investment in its company culture is also essential to achieving its 2022 recruiting goals.

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  • Grooves investment in its company culture is also essential to achieving its 2022 recruiting goals.
  • As a growth-stage start-up in the emerging sales engagement category, Groove is expanding rapidly, and its company culture plays a critical role in attracting and retaining top talent that aligns with its values.
  • The Comparably 2021 Best Company Culture list recognizes the Top 100 highest-rated companies based on anonymous feedback submitted by employees at Comparably.com in the last 12 months (Nov 26, 2020 to Nov. 26, 2021).
  • Comparably ( www.comparably.com ) is a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform with over 15 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 companies.

Carnival Mardi Gras Gets Its Groove On And Raises Record Amount For St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Thanks to the generous donations of guests on board they broke the ship's record and raised $21,600 for St. Jude.

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  • Thanks to the generous donations of guests on board they broke the ship's record and raised $21,600 for St. Jude.
  • "Along with welcoming our guests back on board, our restart allows us to get back to meeting our goal of raising $30 million by 2025 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line.
  • "We are proud to support such a worthy cause and even more proud of guests for opening their hearts and raising close to $22,000 for St. Jude in one day."
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Groove Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for Third Year Running

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Grooves three-year revenue growth of 391% put it in the top 25% of ranked companies.

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  • Grooves three-year revenue growth of 391% put it in the top 25% of ranked companies.
  • This is the third year in a row that Groove has ranked on Inc.s list of the nations most successful private companies.
  • Groove stands out as the only enterprise sales engagement platform built for the needs of full-cycle sellers.
  • In addition to being named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list, Groove has recently received several other industry awards and accolades.

Groove Named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces List for Second Consecutive Year

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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  • b'Groove, the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce\xc2\xae, today announced that it was named to Inc. magazine\xe2\x80\x99s Best Workplaces list for the second year in a row.
  • Submissions were evaluated across a wide variety of topics, including company culture, management effectiveness, perks, and fostering employee growth.
  • So, this year\xe2\x80\x99s list is even more important as it reveals organizations that continue to enrich the lives of its employees amid a pandemic.
  • Groove also ranks #16 on the San Francisco Business Times\' "fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area in 2020" and #191 on the Deloitte 2020 Technology Fast 500 list.