Driven business development professional who effectively builds loyalty and long-term relationships with partners while consistently driving revenue growth.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Partner Director
Appian Corp.
05.2020 - Current
Responsible for generating partner sourced opportunities with Appian's Strategic partners (Accenture, AWS, PwC, Deloitte and TCS). Consistently over exceeded sales goals. Finished FY 2022 150% of quota.
Work with regional Account Executives and sales leadership to leverage our partner relationships and gain entry to new accounts and grow our established accounts. Support 20 Commercial & Financial Services AEs.
Created and implemented industry messaging and solutions to expand Appian's presence in the energy market with our strategic partners.
Manage account planning sessions and ongoing opportunity cadence with our AEs and partners.
Engaged in product enablement and training sessions with our partners and customers.
Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic
Partner Sales Manager
Cloudera
02.2017 - 05.2020
Responsible for developing and implementing a successful regional channel program; supporting Cloudera's partner ecosystem including Cloud, Platform, Global & Regional SIs, and ISVs at the regional level
Named Partner Sales Manager of the Year my first year attaining 120% of new & expansion and 116% of partner sourced revenue. Over the last 36 months realized 174% year over year growth in partner revenue contribution
Worked with regional sales teams to identify mutual target accounts with Cloudera's strategic partners (Accenture/AWS/IBM/Microsoft) to drive sellers-to-seller meetings. These meetings included customer deep dives to identify ways to drive expansion within accounts
Hosted partner enablement sessions around new product launches to ensure strategic partners were proficient on current technology at time of launch
Responsible for recruiting, onboarding and enabling regional partners in emerging markets for Cloudera including ML/AI, Streaming Data and Cloud
Director Channel Sales and Partner Ecosystem
FADEL Partners
11.2015 - 02.2017
Designed, implemented and managed the partner ecosystem at FADEL
Spearheaded expansion and development initiatives in the Digital Asset Management market. Worked with market leading vendors to build out repeatable offerings in the DAM market
Through development of a formal partner and referral program worked with Technology and SI partners to identify over $7M in new revenue opportunities
Built a marketplace of Connectors for FADEL's SaaS based Rights and Royalty Solutions. Including integrations to Adobe, OpenText, NetSuite and other leading technology vendors
Developed partner technical certification and enablement program for Global Systems Integrators
NA Global Systems Integrator Sales Leader
IBM
03.2015 - 11.2015
Managed the NA IBM relationship with our Global Systems Integrators.
Exceeded targets for resell revenue in the first year as a new GSI partner.
Achieved 170% of annual quota.
Worked with NA GSI teams to host joint marketing, enablement and training events. As well as hosted client team strategy sessions.
Partner Recruitment and Activation
IBM
01.2010 - 01.2015
Recruited and on-boarded 300+ partners to drive millions of dollars of incremental IBM software revenue.
Grew new license revenue from new partners from 60 partners doing $4.4M to in 2010 to 150+ partners driving $63.3M in 2013.
Collaborate with our Value Added Distributors to develop recruitment plays to support IBM strategic initiatives.
Engage with Business Units to understand territory and brand partner gaps to prioritize recruitment plans.
Channel Sales Leader
IBM
04.2007 - 01.2010
Built the IBM Forms partner channel in the West Region. Grew IBM Forms business through the partner channel 3.5x.
As the West Region Channel Sales Leader worked with the Lotus FLMs, RBL GB sales teams to identify partner and pipeline gaps.
Exceeded revenue target in 2008 and made IBM 100% club.
Lotus Business Partner Sales Rep covering CDW and Insight. Grew CDW's new license revenue for the first time in 5 quarters.
Program Manager
IBM
01.2006 - 04.2007
Responsible for world-wide go to market strategy for Lotus in the Financial Services Sector
Delivered pipeline in the Financial Services that was 194% of plan.
Worked with BVA team to develop a Business Forms Assessment in Financial Services for Cigna and GE Financial.
Marketing Manager
IBM PureEdge
08.2003 - 01.2006
Responsible for the creation and execution of demand generation programs to build Workplace Forms pipeline
Quarter following the PureEdge acquisition, 4Q Forms results were 150% of plan. Through pipeline building and progression activities closed $2.1M in new license revenue