Paul Patterson

In his role as VP of Sales for Arena Solutions, Paul Patterson is responsible for leadership of the company’s sales organization. Paul’s focus is to grow revenue, deliver profitability and provide outstanding service to Arena’s prospects and customers. He will manage and scale Arena’s sales organization to deliver on the tremendous market opportunity and increase demand for the innovative, easy–to–use, easy–to–deploy, on–demand PLM solution.

Paul brings more than 15 years of sales management experience paired with a deep understanding of both on–demand and manufacturing software.

Prior to joining Arena, Paul was responsible for the global sales organization of Apexon, an on–demand solution for improved supply chain management and decision support. There he helped the company deploy its solution into a solid base of Fortune 1000 manufacturing customers and become the leader in the on–demand supplier performance management space.

In a prior position as the director of sales for the western and central regions at newScale, Inc., the leader in IT service portfolio management and service catalog software solutions, Paul helped grow the company’s customer base to more than one million users in just six years.

Earlier in his career, Patterson helped develop and launch the sales organization for Datasweep (now Rockwell Automation), a leading provider of manufacturing execution software for Fortune 1000 manufacturers.

Patterson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from University of Colorado.