Colin Murphy '03
- Chief Customer Officer, Zendesk
- President, IST Alumni Society
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Colin is the Chief Customer Officer at Zendesk. Previously, he was the global vice president of customer success and customer support at BMC Software and senior vice president of global customer success at New York-based Integral Ad Science, a Vista Equity Partners company.
Colin is a technology executive with 20 years’ experience operating in a broad range of high leverage capacities — across management consulting, strategy/M&A, general management, operations, and post-sales. He held multiple leadership positions at CA Technologies (now Broadcom) including SVP operations and general manager of a multi-million dollar cybersecurity business. Colin also held strategy and operational roles at Unisys and The Boeing Company. Colin began his career with stints at global management consulting firms, Oliver Wyman and Deloitte. He holds two graduate degrees (MBA, public policy) from the University of Texas at Austin and a BS degree from the College of IST at Penn State.
Graduates honored at College of IST Alumni Symposium and Awards Ceremony