Pendo hires nCino exec as chief product officer, adds 143 employees

RALEIGH – Fast-growing software firm Pendo hires a new “chief product officer” – and she’s an executive who helped take public cloud banking firm nCino in Wilmington last year.

Pendo announced the addition of Trisha Price on Thursday morning. She had been chief innovation officer and chief product officer at nCino.

Trisha Price (Pendo photo)

“Along my product management journey, I did not always have the best tools to optimize my products. Pendo has created an amazing platform and I am excited to build on it and create the best product management tools for a world quickly going digital,” Price said in citing reasons why she joined Pendo.

Price is a graduate of N.C. State.

“I’m really excited to introduce new product leadership for the leading platform for product leaders. Trisha brings incredible energy and expertise from innovating at both fast-growing startups and traditional enterprises,” said Todd Olson, CEO and co-founder of Pendo, in a statement. “She will help us accelerate R&D to ensure our customers continue to have the leading platform for understanding user behavior and driving product adoption.”

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Pendo also continues to hire in Raleigh and at its growing global operations, adding 143 people in the quarter ending Oct. 31. The software “unicorn” – valued well above $1 billion – now has some 800 workers, the company disclosed Thursday.

In recent months Pendo also named three other execs: