Steven M. Cakebread, Technology Veteran, Joins Yext as Chief Financial Officer

Yext today announced that Steve Cakebread is joining the Yext team as Chief Financial Officer. Cakebread is responsible for Yext's global financial operations.

Cakebread brings extensive experience in public markets, global expansion, and strategic council. He has been a senior financial executive at rapidly growing technology companies for the past four decades. Cakebread was Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce.com from 2002 to 2009, in addition to serving as the President and Chief Strategy Officer. More recently Cakebread served as Chief Financial Officer of Pandora Media Inc. He previously held senior management roles at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics World Trade, and Hewlett Packard.

"Yext has had a tremendous year. We've raised $50 million of funding, developed breakthrough technology, and continued to grow our world-class team" said Howard Lerman, Yext Co-Founder and CEO. "Steve's leadership experience adds immense value to our executive team as we expand globally and manage massive growth, and is the ideal person to help Yext achieve our ambitious long-term goals."

"Yext is clearly the leader in the high-growth geomarketing category and is one of the most exciting companies in the world," added Cakebread. "I was looking for a company with brilliant leaders, passionate employees and uncapped potential – and Yext is that company."

Cakebread holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University.