Don Davidge

Seattle-based AnswerDash, the world’s leading provider of predictive Q&A customer support for websites and apps, has appointed Don Davidge as vice president of sales and marketing. In this role, Davidge will drive revenue and capitalize on AnswerDash’s pioneering position in online contextual self-service support.

Davidge is uniquely suited to lead AnswerDash’s sales and marketing efforts, bringing over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, co-founder and brand builder in the technology industry. His arrival enables AnswerDash to accelerate growth in customer acquisition, revenue and customer success.

“Top-flight sales and marketing execution is critical as we accelerate growth,” said William Colleran, CEO at AnswerDash. “Don’s experience, enthusiasm and insights boost these capabilities tremendously, and we’re fortunate to have him.”

Davidge co-founded Melodeo, an early, digital-streaming music service, where he led the company through dramatic growth contributing to the company’s acquisition by Hewlett Packard. Davidge was also a key executive at Tegic, developer of the T9 predictive text input system for mobile devices, which was acquired by AOL and has now shipped on over 10 billion devices. Both companies were backed by Voyager Capital.

Davidge also served as a corporate advisor to Swype and Voice Signal, both of which were acquired by Nuance. Most recently, he served at Hewlett Packard as head of business development for mobile enterprise web services—formerly HP Palm webOS, where he led business development activities for web and cloud services, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.