Chris Federspiel is the CEO and co-founder of Blackthorn.io, a leading developer of Salesforce-native apps in the events management and payments space. Since 2015, Blackthorn.io has provided companies with the acceleration and streamlined innovation needed to scale and unite their CRM with events, payments and compliance data.

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