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Matthew Mulqueen

Matthew Mulqueen

Work History

Chief Revenue Officer

LILT
  • Led a Complete GTM transformation for LILT, across 3 separate lines of business: Enterprise/Commercial ($30M), Public Sector ($20M), AI Data sales ($10M), with the below outcomes:
  • Drove topline from $15M to $60M in 2 years; Created the Pricing/Packaging and GTM Motion to transform Bookings from being 100% un-committed (pay-as-you-go) to 85% contractually committed (i.e. SaaS consumption model)
  • Increased ASP from $72k to $114k; Reduced sales cycle from 157 days to 94 days
  • Tripled pipeline generation with a 95% purely outbound motion (there was no formal marketing function during this time)
  • Full talent revamp of both Leaders and IC talent; Improved Sales Efficiency from .5 to 1.7, and delivered Bookings above Productive Capacity every single quarter (~120%)
  • Built a Post-Sales function to increase adoption/CSAT and drive NRR from 84% to ~125%
  • Created a RevOps function to track leading indicators at Team and IC-level and ultimately bring rigor to entire GTM function
  • Landed the top logos and deals in company history (almost all >$1M):

Nvidia, Google, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, OpenAI,

Anthropic, Visa, United Health, Mastercard, Proctor &

Gamble, Eli Lilly, L’Oreal, Sony, USA's CIA, USA's FBI,

USA's Army/Navy/Airforce/Marines (the Dept of War)


  • Generally looked at as the standard-bearer for a culture of excellence and having fun by winning

References: Mark Rostick (BoD-Intel Cap), Matt Singer (CMO), Angela Loeffler (CPO), Sylvia Borek (OpenAI), Sam Zegas (VP Strategy), Mason Hanson (VP BizOps)

Chief Revenue Officer

Cresta
  • Drove topline ARR from $3M to $30M in 2.5 years
  • Created pricing/packaging, sales playbook, company pitch deck, and overall operational rhythm for sales and field operations to figure out how to commercialize and scale Generative AI solutions for the Enterprise; more/less still what is in place today
  • Landed some of the largest logos in the contact center world, most of which being 7-figure clients: Intuit, Cox, Verizon, American Express, US Bank, UnitedHealth, United Airlines, Experian
  • Helped lead Series B and Series C fund-raising ($130M)
  • Hired and built A+ Sales Leadership & Sales Teams, RevOps, SDR org, Technical Field Operations, and Strategic Architecture teams
  • References: Zayd Eman (Founder CEO), Tim Shi (Co-Founder CTO) Carl Eschenbach (BoD- Sequoia), Kais Kimhj (BoD- Sequoia), Scott Kolman (CMO), John Donovan (Board, former ATT CEO), Ashish (Eudia Founder)

VP Sales

Kong
  • Joined at ~$6M and helped lead the team to $40M Created the company pitch deck, and the Kong sales paybook, shifted motion from inbound to outbound-driven, and operating rhythm for all of the sales GTM installed Leading Indicator
  • Created and led the first Commercial/Mid-Market team, $0-$6M ARR
  • References: Augusto Marietti (Founder/CEO), KenKim(SVP), Carl Mattsson (GM)

Regional Vice President, Europe

Datadog
  • First sales hire in EMEA. Built first sales team as Datadog started their first up-market, enterprise sales motion
  • Built company sales deck and sales pitch around the ‘3 Pillars of Observability’
  • Hired the team that is still the highest producer in Europe across Sales leaders, sales reps, Pre-Sales Engineering
  • Landed the newest logos, which are still of the highest ARR in EMEA: HSBC, Vodafone, Klarna, Aviva, Maersk, London Stock Exchange, Credit Suisse, Sainsbury, IHS Markit, FCA, EasyJet
  • References: Steve Malouf (EVP – WW Sales), Kevin Anderson (VP – Americas), Nick Hewitt (Director, Northern Europe), Lee Farrar (VP Sales Engineering)

Sales Director, UK & Ireland

AppDynamics
  • Part of the first sales rep team, annual top 5% performer, and then built and led a top-producing team in the UK (2x $1M+ earners)
  • Built the sales motion that was rolled out company-wide, and maintained for years re: “3 Whys” built around the “3 Legs of the Stool: Ops, Dev, Business”
  • Landed some of the top ARR deals/logos in the company: Vodafone, Credit Suisse, Aviva, DixonsCarphone, Jaguar LandRover, AXA
  • Hired a team of sales reps that all went on to lead teams at AppDynamics, post-acquisition
  • References: David Wadhwani (CEO), Jyoti Bansal (CEO), Bhaskar Sunkara (Co- Founder), Joe Sexton (President)

Education

Master of Business Administration -

University of Southern California, The Marshall School of Business
01.2013

Technology Commercialization Degree - undefined

University of Southern California, The Marshall School of Business
01.2013

B.S. Business and Marketing -

The Pennsylvania State University, The Smeal College of Business
01.2007

Force Management

PERSONAL

  • Married for 15 years to my college sweetheart (20 years together now!)
  • 3 young children: Caroline (8), Grace (6), George (2)
  • I have two key passions in life: #1 is spending time with this crew, and #2 is building software companies/GTM teams
  • Outside of those two things, I am a voracious reader, wannabe skier, retired traveler/adventurer, above-average on the BBQ grill, and a hobbyist winemaker

Timeline

VP Sales

Kong

Regional Vice President, Europe

Datadog

Technology Commercialization Degree - undefined

University of Southern California, The Marshall School of Business

Chief Revenue Officer

LILT

Chief Revenue Officer

Cresta

Sales Director, UK & Ireland

AppDynamics

Master of Business Administration -

University of Southern California, The Marshall School of Business

B.S. Business and Marketing -

The Pennsylvania State University, The Smeal College of Business

Force Management
Matthew Mulqueen