Dynamic, inspiring, innovative executive leader with international experience and proven career success driving growth for VMware, Siemens Enterprise Communications, and Sun Microsystems across highly competitive and constantly evolving markets. 25 years of experience in the IT industry with strong expertise in cloud sales and business development. 15-year successful track record bringing a talent for building dispersed, performance-driven teams that deliver results and multi million-dollar growth in short periods.
In the most recent role as Sales Director EMEA Hyperscaler, I was handpicked to design and execute field Go-To-Market strategy in partnership with Microsoft, Oracle, and Google. The team helped customers and partners achieve their business goals through innovative IT solutions and services while accelerating VMware’s multi-cloud strategy and revenue growth.
Sales management for entire VMware Cloud Services including all Hyperscalers, enterprise and commercial end-users in EMEA. Leading international team consisting of 11 specialists. Responsible for building strong territory in assigned geography and achieving revenue quota target, managing sales forecasting process, building brand around solutions within my territory. Coordination and close work with VMware's core Field and partner organizations to achieve success and lead interactions with VMware's existing customers. Deep knowledge of cloud services marketplace, hybrid cloud, IT sales cycles, and VMware's partner programs and ecosystems.
Main achievements in this role: 20-40% growth Q over Q since first Q in this role. Was built a strong international team that has been overperforming permanently.
Leading a sales team developing business with key SEN accounts; short-term and long-term forecasting; team coaching; defining annual targets and KPIs for each salesperson in the team; responsibility for 70% of the whole office target.
Working with key customers in Finance and manufacturing, building sales process including channel, marketing and technical aspects, achieving and overachieving annual sales targets.