Mel Zeledon is the Executive VP of Alliances and Transformation at Strategy. Mel joined Strategy in October 2022 after more than 40 years of experience in the enterprise software and services industry, the past 20 with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leaders.
Before Strategy, he served as Senior VP of Channels & Alliances at BlackLine. Before that, he served as vice president of global channels at financial and HR SaaS leader Workday where he revamped the Workday Adaptive Planning Solution Provider Partner Program, growing annual sourced revenues as much as 40 percent year-over-year during his tenure. Prior to Workday, Zeledon was vice president of channels and mid-market at IBM for six years where he drove more than $500 million per year in worldwide revenue through channel and alliances business partners for the Business Analytics brand. Zeledon also has served in partner ecosystem leadership positions with Adaptive Insights, Cognos, Hyperion Solutions and Siebel Systems. Earlier in his career, he established and ran an Oracle Corp. subsidiary in Central America. Mel has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica, was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, where he earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science.
