Mike Porter

Mike Porter brings extensive international sales strategy and management experience to his role as chief sales officer at NAVEX. Over the last 20 years, he has helped numerous technology companies transform their businesses, accelerate growth and enable sustainable success.  

Mike previously led sales, marketing and customer success as senior vice president of global field operations at Backstop Solutions. As Vice President, Americas at Progress software, he assisted in rebuilding the organization and go-to-market plans to achieve the strategic objective of becoming a leading PaaS vendor. Earlier in his career, Mike spent 14 years at Microsoft in a variety of leadership roles including U.S. Central Region general manager, Asia Pacific sales director and enterprise sales and partner manager for Gulf States District. Mike is a graduate of Purdue University.