Jonathan Cherins

Jonathan joined PuppySpot in April of 2018 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining PuppySpot, Jonathan spent 3 years at YEXT as EVP responsible for Small Business and Middle Market. Prior to Yext, Cherins was CMO at TravelClick from 2010-2014. Cherins has extensive experience in general management, marketing and sales leadership and go-to-market execution in the Information, Media, and SaaS industries. Prior to TravelClick, he held a variety of leadership positions at Dun & Bradstreet and was a founding employee at Juno Online Services, which went public in 1999.

Articles by Jonathan Cherins

• My team outperformed expectations amid WFH — but we’re still heading back to the office eventually

  Thursday, July 09, 2020

  When I became the CEO of PuppySpot a few years ago, one of my first projects was bringing our team closer together, both figuratively and literally. When this current pandemic arrived in the U.S. this March, it called into question right away all the improvements we'd made for our company culture. I wasn't concerned about our ability to move home and to remain in touch; what worried me was that people would fall back into bad patterns and focus exclusively on their rigid areas of the business and lose the curiosity and creativity that they'd established from working alongside others. My apprehension proved to be unfounded, though.