Alex Blakeway Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, GB

I focus on acceleration and growth in the technology sector. Transformation of the sales organisation and growth through M&A are the two levers I use to accelerate companies.​After playing a pivotal role in propelling The Access Group (now the UK's largest software company) from £280 million SaaS ARR to over £1 billion in under four years, and successfully.

Loughborough, Leicestershire, GB

Leading several Divisions through multiple acquisitions and accelerated growth. A key contributor in taking Access from £280m to £1bn +. I led two of our fastest growth Divisions (Hospitality/Recruitment) with a combined global sales team of 250 members and consistently achieved double-digit revenue growth year on year, surpassing annual targets by an.

Loughborough, Leicestershire, GB

• Remit to professionalise the sales organisation and deliver a Global Sales Operating Model:Performance & Sales eNPS
• Developed performance measuring and under-performance programmes.
• Moved from 60/40 Marketing/Self Gen to 40/60 split to drive accelerated growth.
• Developed and launched the Global Sales Career Framework.
• Ran Divisional performance reviews.Sales Operating Model
• Developed a Global Sales operating model.

Brussels, BE

Horizon 2020 was the EU's research and innovation funding programme from 2014-2020 with a budget of nearly €80 billion. I was part of the evaluation team assessing applications for funding.

Austin, Texas, US

***Oracle HCM - Financial Services Account Director***Responsible for global T1 Financial Services accounts.***Oracle CX - Head of Oracle Commerce Cloud | East & Central Europe***Responsible for launching Oracle Commerce Cloud across East & Central Europe working with ASR’s and Oracle Digital. My role was to lead the sales enablement, recruitment of the.

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

I was responsible for setting up the Cloud business within Damovo prior to the acquisition to the Daisy Group PLC. This included business development, sales, delivery and portfolio management.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

Managing the Diageo Account. My role was to bring together a global team and develop an account strategy that would drive business in new technology areas. Projects included Cloud – IaaS, SaaS, EMC Storage and back up, Cisco Collaboration, CUCM, Telepresence, connectivity, Global Managed Services and hosted security.

San Jose, CA, US

• Managing virtual teams, I was responsible for working with the Tier 1 financial organisations in changing the way they do business through collaboration. I used my consultative approach to work closely with the.
• Cisco FY 2009/10/11 achieved “Sales Champion/Sales Achiever” reward and recognition
• One of eight chosen in the UK to take part in the “Cisco leader of the future programme“
• Represented Cisco at the 2012 Olympics – “Team Leader Events Services”

Hull, GB

My team were responsible for delivering over 300 projects spanning 60 locations in 24 countries.