• Lyle Fong, CEO & Co-Founder
• Joe Cothrel, Chief Community Officer
• Mike Dinsdale, Chief Financial Officer
• Sanjay Dholakia, Chief Marketing Officer
• Charles Hough, Senior Vice President of Business Operations
• Amy Lewis, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
• Nader Alizadeh, Vice President of Business Development
• Iain Grant, Vice President of Client Services
• Ron Rasmussen, Vice President of Engineering
• Philip Soffer, Vice President of Products

Iain Grant

VP of Client Services

As Vice President of Client Services, Iain leads Lithium's consulting and education services for enterprise clients. With an outstanding track record for building successful, client-focused organizations based on deep knowledge of CRM, ERP, and collaboration systems, he oversees development and implementation of innovative social media solutions and best practices to deliver measurable return-on-investment (ROI) and exceptional customer success.

Previously, Iain served as Vice President of Professional Services at Salesforce.com, where he was responsible for all Enterprise customers in the Western United States, and for deployments of Salesforce's Online Community Application (Ideas). Prior to his tenure at Salesforce.com, Iain was the Global Practice Director for Unisys, where he built and managed the Microsoft Dynamics Practice, including CRM offerings. He has also held senior leadership positions at Versata, IBM Global Services, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Iain graduated with honors from the University of Exeter, England, with a degree in Mathematics, Statistics, and Operational Research.

A. I have always actively participated in the latest technology trends that have helped improve our daily business and/or professional lives, and particularly those that help improve communication. It also helps having three children who insist on you using the latest and greatest technologies and tools. However, it was working with clients such as Dell (IdeaStorm) and Starbucks (My Starbucks Idea) implementing their online communities that really caught my attention - the true power and future promise for businesses embracing online communities and social networking excites me - which is why I joined Lithium!

A. For social networking I am on Facebook, Yahoo, and MySpace (former client). For business networking I am on LinkedIn. I am also active on a number of other soccer-related (specifically Liverpoolfc.tv for Liverpool Football Club & MVSC.org for Mill Valley Soccer Club) and mountain bike-related (MTBR.com) online communities.