Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Gene Farrell is the chief product officer at Smartsheet, responsible for driving product vision and technology strategy across the company’s product management, product marketing, and experience design functions.

With over 25 years of executive leadership experience driving transformation and growth across the consumer and technology industries, Gene is a recognized thought leader and innovator known for building disruptive new businesses for global brands. He was named a 2019 Innovator of the Year by the Puget Sound Business Journal, is a named inventor on more than 10 patents, and received the Gold Edison Innovation award and the Catalyst Design award for his groundbreaking work on the Coca-Cola Freestyle beverage platform.

Gene joined Smartsheet in 2017, after five years at Amazon Web Services where he served as a vice president responsible for enterprise computing. In this role, Gene pioneered new cloud businesses including Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon Chime, and scaled Amazon’s enterprise compute platform. Prior to his leadership at Amazon, Gene was a vice president at the Coca-Cola Company, where he founded and led the creation of the Coca-Cola Freestyle beverage platform. Freestyle, an entirely new line of business for Coca-Cola, was recognized by Forbes as one of the best new products of the decade.

Gene received an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta and a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle. Gene and his wife, Helen, live in Sammamish. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, cycling, snow skiing, and water sports.