Lynne Doherty
President of Worldwide Field Operations
A strong advocate for her clients, her team and women in technology, Lynne Doherty is passionate about building inclusive and diverse teams, who consistently deliver a premium experience to customers and thrive on the creativity that drives world-class innovation.
As President of Worldwide Field Operations at Sumo Logic, Lynne is responsible for sales, pre-sales, channel and customer success teams, driving revenue in one of the fastest growing markets in the technology space. In the rapidly evolving work environment, companies increasingly look for solutions to help them simplify, drive efficiency and stay secure. Sumo Logic is the industry leading solution to solve these challenges, as the first and only cloud-native, SaaS technology, with a Continuous Intelligence Platform that puts the power of machine data analytics in the hands of everyone.
Lynne has been leading sales organizations and driving positive business outcomes for customers for more than 20 years. Lynne joined Sumo from McAfee, where she was Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing where she was responsible for their enterprise sales, pre-sales, channel and marketing teams. In her time at McAfee, she led them through their initial public offering, sale of the enterprise business, spin-out as a new company, and acquisition of FireEye Products.
Prior to McAfee, Lynne spent nearly 15 years at Cisco and most recently was Senior Vice President of US Commercial Sales- Cisco’s largest, single-market sales organization. In this role, she oversaw a team of more than 2,000 employees, drove $8B in revenue annually, serving 400,000+ accounts. Prior to that, Lynne was Vice President of Americas Security Sales, responsible for over $2B across the US, Canada and Latin America.
Throughout her career in various leadership, sales and engineering roles, Lynne has built a reputation for leading high-performing, international organizations that capitalize on competitive opportunities and cultivate innovative initiatives to disrupt markets and drive technology adoption.
Lynne has a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She lives in Denver, CO with her husband, is an avid cycler and loves to bake in her spare time.