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databahn Leadership Team

Ryan Murray, CEO & GM

Ryan’s early career after graduation from St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH includes sales positions at top technology companies such as Siemens, Genuity, and Availant where he demonstrated his selling skills as a top performer, negotiator and closer.

The lessons he learned drove him to start a business designed to enable enterprise sales reps to increase deal sizes, close more deals and shorten sales cycles. In 2001, he started SalesQuest at age 28 with nothing more than some creative ideas and a few hundred dollars.

Key to the initial success of this lean startup was the ability to attract Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Microsoft, and EMC while keeping costs low and customer needs high.

Ryan changed the way these companies approached strategic account planning, sales prospecting and selling into Fortune 1000 companies with the introduction of CRUSH Reports in 2005. By listening to what sales organizations needed to streamline their sales processes, CRUSH Reports were a run-away success. The resulting demand rocketed SalesQuest to #255 on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in 2008.

With customer acquisition, revenues, profits and renewals continuing to grow in the down economy, Ryan and his team launched new offerings including CRUSH Report Alerts, CRUSH Report Target Builder, CRUSH Report mobile, ConnectCRUSH for Salesforce.com, CRUSH Report Executive Profiles, CRUSH Industry Reports, and the CRUSH Report M3 Database.

In January of 2014, Ryan led the acquisition of SalesQuest and CRUSH Reports by OneSource/Avention, now Dun & Bradstreet. He transitioned all things CRUSH Reports to the OneSource/Avention team while developing plans to expand CRUSH Reports internationally, expand into new vertical markets and re-launch a new CRUSH Reports e-commerce site.

In January of 2015, Ryan launched databahn, a sales intelligence company powered by cutting edge generative AI and deep learning technologies. databahn goes beyond traditional sales tools by automating time-consuming research, predicting sales triggers, and generating actionable insights focused on Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies.

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Bill Gosse, Chief Technology Officer

Bill brings unparalleled expertise to databahn’s leadership team with over 30 years of experience in software development and a distinguished career spanning enterprise architecture, cloud computing, and AI-driven applications,

A proud U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran, Bill has a proven track record of driving technological innovation and scalable solutions. His extensive technical proficiency includes Vue.js, NodeJS, AWS, Google Gemini API, Liferay, and Camunda BPM, among dozens of other cutting-edge tools. Most recently, Bill has been instrumental in developing databahn’s flagship application, which leverages NodeJS, Gemini AI, and PptxgenJS to automate dynamic business presentations enriched with organizational charts, financial and business insights, and industry analyses.

Prior to joining databahn, Bill served as a Software Architect at Contruent, where they led cloud migrations to AWS and pioneered identity federation solutions. His previous roles include leadership positions at AI Foundry, SalesQuest, and BEA Systems, where he specialized in portal development, microservices, and enterprise security. Bill is also a Certified Java Programmer and has contributed to open-source projects, including a notable integration of Liferay 7 with Keycloak for SSO authentication.

Bill holds a Master of Science in Technological Systems Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Earth and Space Sciences from Stony Brook University. A lifelong learner, he is passionate about mentoring teams and advancing scalable, secure architectures.

databahn is a GenAI-powered sales intelligence service delivering real-time insights on Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 accounts. Our AI analyzes the deep web to generate dynamic company profiles, org charts, and sales triggers—cutting research time by 80% while tripling revenue opportunities. Specializing in tech initiatives, we provide hyper-relevant intelligence to engage decision-makers precisely. Unlike static reports, our always-on AI interprets buying signals, recommends strategies, and continuously learns. Trusted by tech leaders since 2015, we're redefining sales intelligence with actionable, AI-driven insights that accelerate pipeline and crush quotas.

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