Christine Washburn | Vice President, Marketing

Christine Washburn brings 20 years of marketing experience to Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks, including the creation of online customer communities that helped drive significant business growth. Prior to joining the company, Christine served as vice president of marketing for QUMAS, a compliance software company ranked #1 by Forrester Research in the governance, risk, and compliance space. Christine also held the position of vice president of marketing at SilverBack, a managed service provider software platform, ultimately acquired by Dell Computer on the strength of its channel program, and vice president of corporate marketing for Concord Communications (now Computer Associates). Christine began her career in politics, serving as a legislative assistant, and later press secretary, to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance. Christine holds a master's of public policy degree from Georgetown University as well as a bachelor of science in telecommunications and political science from Indiana University.