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New York, NY-based Yext Appointed Brian Schipper as Chief People Officer
About the Company
Yext is the global Digital Presence Management (DPM) leader, helping over 500,000 business locations manage their geodata and promotional content across 100+ map, app, search engine, and directory partners including Apple, Bing, Facebook, Foursquare, Yahoo, and Yelp.Based in the heart of New York City with a growing team of 400 employees worldwide, Yext was named one of Forbes most Promising Companies (2014 and 2015) as well as one of Fortune`s Best Places to Work (2014).Yext`s mission is to help deliver mobile customers to the doorstep of the world`s 50 million business locations by putting perfect location information in the hand of every consumer.
About the Person
Brian `Skip` Schipper serves as Yext`s Chief People Officer, responsible for overseeing the people and organization strategy to help the company scale its team, build on the company`s great employee experience, and grow its global business. Prior to Yext, Schipper led HR at Twitter, Groupon, Cisco, and DoubleClick. Schipper has over thirty years` HR and broader administration leadership experience, primarily in the technology industry in global companies at all stages of growth, he has worked both in and outside the US. Schipper has a BA from Hope College and an MBA from Michigan State University. He was elected to the boards of Verified Person and DHI, Inc. [NYSE: DHX].
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