Leadership Profiles

Blaine Kahoonei is PeerNova’s Vice President, Channel Partnerships, responsible for the company’s acceleration through its partnerships with Salesforce, developing its network of consulting partners, prospective Global Systems Integrators, and ISVs supporting Cuneiform for Salesforce.

Blaine brings more than 20 years of experience building and leading partnerships across the Salesforce ecosystem. Prior to PeerNova, he led partnerships at Thunder Consulting, served as VP of Technology & Ecosystem Partnerships at Copado, and held alliance roles at different business divisions at Salesforce, including Director of Technology Partnerships at Salesforce.org and Director of Alliances for Heroku. Earlier in his career, he also played a number of roles across go-to-market and operations to develop the Salesforce Partner Program and the AgentExchange ISV Partner Program. He is also the founder of Growth Elements a business consultancy focused on go-to-market and revenue acceleration through the development of partnerships and distribution channels.

A Native Hawaiian entrepreneur and philanthropist, Blaine volunteers time as a mentor for Blue Startups a leading venture accelerator out of Hawai’i.  He also serves on the selection committee of the Paubox Kahikina Scholarship, an annually recurring award designed to support Native Hawaiian students pursuing degrees in STEM or technology fields.