SARAH TAKASAKI

• Leading Business Development for Oracle’s Private Equity team on the East Coast, responsible for sourcing, onboarding, and managing relationships with top-tier private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

• Awarded MVP of fiscal year 2025.

• Surpassed over 150% of 4.7 million dollar quota.

• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies to expand Oracle’s footprint within the private equity ecosystem, leveraging market intelligence, transaction activity, and industry trends to drive engagement and pipeline growth.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to PE firms, aligning Oracle’s cloud solutions with portfolio-level value creation initiatives, digital transformation goals, and operational efficiency targets.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, solutions consulting, product, and customer success teams to support complex, multi-

stakeholder ERP evaluations and enterprise transformations.

• Managed relationships with 200+ of North America’s largest private equity firms, contributing to over $150M in annual revenue and supporting 700+ portfolio companies through full lifecycle ERP support.

• Prepared and delivered investor-facing materials, business cases, and executive briefings to facilitate C-level alignment and investment committee buy-in.

• Establish new partnerships with PE and VC firms to generate new business opportunities for sales, monitor existing portfolio companies, and further partnerships by providing thought-leadership content.

• Lead full deal cycle from conception to sale.

• Surpassed over 100% of quota.

• Collaborate with executive team and cross-functional departments (sales, marketing, customer success, and product) to develop go-to-market strategy for a new VC Channel

•Partner with complimentary vendors/service providers to cross-sell services and host educational sessions or broader events for PE/VC firms and their respective portfolio companies

• Working with C-Suite personnel to understand client’s business initiatives and NetSuite’s role in their organization

• Diagnose underlying business issues and match with viable long-term solutions through additional functionality, partner solutions, training, and professional services consulting

• Sell subscription renewals, add-ons and professional services relative to customer’s needs and initiatives

• Own the business relationship and all revenue associated with each customer by leading quarterly business reviews and ensuring services are aligned with changing business requirements

• Consistently leverage cross departmental resources such as Solution Consultants, Customer Success Managers, Finance managers, Value Management Associates, and others in maximizing client revenues

• Drive awareness of new products and reinforce the adoption of ongoing enhancements to existing functionality

• Attained over 100% quota for all quarters with an annual attainment average of 115%

• Owned top of the funnel through primarily outbound outreach to C-level executives within the corporate sector ($20MM- $200MM)

• Qualified prospects’ business needs, current and future projects, exit strategies, and requirements to ultimately ascertain value added solutions

• Spearheaded multiple marketing outreach campaigns that were leveraged consistently across the entire BDR organization