Ori Yankelev is a Partner and CRO at Team8.

He supports companies across our portfolio with sales initiatives and manages Team8’s business development efforts.

Before joining Team8, Ori was the CRO and a founding member of Own (acquired by Salesforce). Under his leadership, Own’s ARR grew over 100% year over year to more than $170M and over 800 employees. He led a variety of functions including sales, customer success, sales development, operations, and alliances. Prior to this, he worked at Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners on a variety of go-to-market initiatives, including two years on Intronis (acquired by Barracuda Networks).

Ori has a BBA (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.