Chris Hyde

SVP - Strategy and Operations Validity

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Chris Hyde is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations at Validity, the software company whose products, among them DemandTools, BriteVerify and Everest, cover CRM data management, email address verification and email deliverability. Validity describes him as one of its first international employees. Before his current title he led the company’s data solutions business as SVP and Global Head of Data Solutions, responsible for its executive direction, roadmap and overall management. In that role he fronted Validity’s DemandTools announcements to the Salesforce community at Dreamforce in 2022 and 2024.

Career Highlights

• Listed on Validity’s leadership page as SVP – Strategy and Operations.
• Previously SVP and Global Head of Data Solutions at Validity, the title he used in company releases in September 2022 and September 2024 and in a September 2023 trade interview.
• Company spokesman for the DemandTools freemium launch at Dreamforce 2022, and for new DemandTools capabilities at Dreamforce 2024, where he was also a featured session speaker.
• Validity credits him with more than 25 years in pre-sales, product and customer success roles at startups and large enterprise software companies.

Professional Journey

Hyde’s career before Validity is described only in general terms by the company: more than 25 years as an individual contributor and a leader in pre-sales, product and customer success at a mix of startups and large enterprise software companies. No source reviewed names those earlier employers, so none is recorded here.

At Validity he was, in the company’s words, one of its first international employees. He rose to Senior Vice President and Global Head of Data Solutions. In that role Validity describes him as responsible for the executive direction, roadmap and overall management of its data solutions, working with industry operators, customers and data analytics to shape product strategy. The flagship of that business is DemandTools, Validity’s data quality product for Salesforce users.

He was the public face of that product line. When Validity launched free editions of its data quality tools at Dreamforce 2022, he said the company was “thrilled to be back in person at Dreamforce”, presenting the freemium offering as a way for businesses from SMBs to enterprises to manage data at scale. A year later he discussed DemandTools in a MarTech Cube interview, and at Dreamforce 2024 he announced new DemandTools capabilities and co-presented a customer session, “Lessons from Successfully Implementing Data Cloud”, with Elements.cloud.

Validity’s leadership page now lists him as SVP – Strategy and Operations, alongside Chairman and CEO Mark Briggs and President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Piispanen. The company has not published a date for the change of title.

He is active in the Salesforce community, and Validity describes him as a regular contributor to events and blogs.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or dated editorial source.