Prior to joining Google, Shannon spent eight years at Salesforce in various sales engineering roles. She joined Salesforce as an individual contributor in the mid-market space and was promoted repeatedly, ultimately serving as a senior director selling into top Salesforce customers across the US. She considers her time at Salesforce to have been foundational to her development as a sales engineering leader. It is where she learned to sell, lead, and win business.

Shannon loves to mentor early career individuals and relishes the art of networking. She lives with her family in Colorado. She has two sons that know far better than she does and a husband that enjoys starting projects but not finishing them. Shannon’s hobbies include walking her two dogs, Dieter and Junie, for what seems like hours on end, watching comedy, and reading random Urban Fantasy series. She is also a big fan of podcasts of all kinds. Shannon has an MBA in marketing and organizational development from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in Spanish and communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara.