“It’s a fairly typical beginning for a lot of software companies,” said Jim Lochry, SVP Corporate Development for ConnectLeader. “They start out as a consulting company, looking at and solving problems.”
In 2008, the founder of ConnectLeader, Senraj Soundar, looked at the CRM space with the intent of making the next generation of CRM systems. What he found, according to Lochry, was that “companies weren’t getting value out of the CRM itself.” After looking at some of the large players emerging in this space, Senraj realized that he didn’t need to build the next greatest CRM, but to make a product and solution that would leverage the investment companies had already made in their selected CRM. He could see, as Lochry put it, “that all that data was there, but was not being exploited.”
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