Smartsheet announced the appointment of Dennis Durkin to its board of directors. He will also serve on the board's Audit Committee. Durkin, former Chief Financial Officer of Activision Blizzard and Chief Operating and Financial Officer of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, brings a depth and breadth of experience to Smartsheet, with a focus on growing and scaling global digital businesses and communities.

Durkin's appointment comes during a period of continued growth for Smartsheet during which the company is experiencing both strong logo growth and setting new high water marks for large enterprise deployments. Durkin is an advisor and investor who also currently serves on the boards of ON Holdings and Oura Health. During his tenure at Activision Blizzard, in a variety of roles including over seven years as CFO, he helped grow the company's enterprise value from approximately $10 billion to more than $70 billion.

Prior to that, Durkin spent nearly 13 years at Microsoft, where he was most recently the CFO and COO of the Interactive Entertainment Business, which included the Xbox, Xbox Live and Games businesses. Durkin holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.