CB

Chris Barbin

Founder | CEO @ Tercera | Next-Gen Cloud Professional Services

Winnetka, Illinois

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2020

  • Founder | CEO

    2020

    As the vast majority of businesses build their organizations and operations on the cloud, a new wave of technology providers is emerging. These next-generation cloud providers look very different than they did in the past, as do their service provider ecosystems. The labor models, investment and go-to-market strategies that worked in the first and second wave of the cloud have shifted. Tercera, spanish for 'third', we are a group of invested operators dedicated to identifying and strengthening the next-level services firms who will lead this third-wave of cloud computing.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Board member of the largest and fastest growing OneStream Software professional services partner. Black Diamond and OneStream are leading the charge in the third wave of the cloud implementing world class solutions in the Corporate Performance Management (CPM) space.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Valiantys is the leading global consulting and professional services firm dedicated to Atlassian, Agility at scale, Cloud and ITSM.

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

    Hakkoda is the leading pure play Snowflake consulting and professional services provider built to harness the power of data, ML and AI. Achieving Elite Partner Status in less than 1 year, also being named Snowflake's Emerging SI Partner of the Year (Americas) has positioned Hakkoda as a top destination for growing talent across Costa Rica, the US and eventually globally.

  • Board Member

    2020

    Partner with Arun and the leadership team at BeyondID to help build a world class Third Wave services organization along side Okta, the leader in cloud identity, security and access management.

  • Board Chair

    2017

    Redefining the tequila experience globally - from supply, sourcing, curating, selling and shipping - white glove services with ultra-premium products and experiences.

2018 - 2022

  • Venture Partner

    2018 - 2022

    Provide support, advice, counsel to the partnership and the portfolio in the areas of cloud computing, corporate culture, professional services, systems integrator / partnerships and go-to market strategies. Helping to not only source investments, but to grow Founders & Leaders that have passion around people, building strategic cultures and remote / global distributed workforces.

2019 - 2021

  • Chairman Of The Board

    2019 - 2021

    Partnered with Greg, Mike, Doug, Doug, Howard and the Traction Leadership team to scale a world class CRM services operation while incubating, scaling and spinning out best of breed SaaS products on the Salesforce.com platform.

2018 - 2019

  • Global Culture Officer

    2018 - 2019

2007 - 2019

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2007 - 2019

    Appirio is a global services provider who uses cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises deliver world class worker and customer experiences. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 1,000,000+ developers, designers and analysts to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio partners with Salesforce.com, Workday, Amazon, Google and other leading cloud technologies and has worked with more than 1000 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America. The company was backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic and was acquired by Wipro in November 2016.