Brian Hodges Email & Phone Number

Retired and enjoying life! I highly recommend it. I do not check LinkedIn messages.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for all mission critical server and edge compute sales teams in North America and LATAM.

San Jose, California, United States

Led a team of compute specialists covering all of HPE's compute solutions into the top 40 global accounts in the West and Central US, including Ford, GM, Exxon, Microsoft and Google

San Francisco Bay Area

I led the West and Central US enterprise sales teams for HPE's mission critical solutions. These systems are optimized for critical enterprise workloads such as SAP HANA. This is one of HPE's fastest growing solutions and we have achieved 50% market share with SAP HANA customers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for creating, building and leading the global direct sales team and all partner channels for SGI's enterprise markets. Primary focus was the UV300 for HANA, a breakthrough in-memory hardware appliance using a single-node architecture scaling up to 32TB for ERP applications at SAP's largest customers. Exceeded all sales goals with entire team attending President's Club in 2016. My team's success in this area directly led to SGI being acquired by HPE in Nov 2016.

San Francisco Bay Area

Sales executive responsible for driving analytics, big data, mobility and ERP on HANA for top accounts in the West. SAP HANA converges database and application platform capabilities in-memory to transform transactions and analytics so businesses can operate in real time.

San Francisco Bay Area

Built and led a sales team for a systems integration firm focused on software and hardware solutions for residential and commercial building electronic systems with a focus on IoT. Emphasis on intuitive full control with mobile devices. Doubled sales, elevating the firm to 4th largest in the CEDIA industry.

Responsible for all marketing activities and competitive positioning of a programmable analog IC solution targeted at consumer technology providers.Key player in raising $12M in VC funding.

Reorganized a transaction oriented sales force into a consultive selling operation comprised of sales, field applications, and customer service teams focused on Fortune 100 accounts. Generated 30% annual growth reaching over $100M in sales. Grew market share of power management integrated circuits from 15% to 50% in target market.

Palm Bay, Fla

Headed a $170M analog semiconductor product line. Managed engineering, R&D and marketing with full P&L responsibility, generating record margins and net income. Established 20% annual growth, reaching revenues of $170M and 60% standard margins, ultimately generating the bulk of the company's earnings in 1997 and 1998.

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