Chris Kranz Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, GB

As CRO, my focus is maximising the value of products and services our clients offer, understanding how to improve customer messaging and evolving go-to-marketing messaging to improve sales & growth. I also do regular Business 360 workshops with clients, a sort of business therapy session where we discover areas for improvement and development within their.

Polyvalent - having or using a lot of different forms or featuresPolyvalent is a company that provides both go-to-market consultancy services (sales, marketing, technology, etc.), and also builds SaaS products that assist in these go-to-market activities (social media advocacy, solution selling, etc.). We are a bootstrapped company that focuses on user.

Duties include project management, damage limitation, education, travel logistics, mentoring, tantrum avoidance (~50% success rate), food preparation, supply chain management (trip and holiday organisation). Successfully made president's club each year (father's day and anniversary cards), although never received a pay rise. Managing a complex P&L budget..

San Francisco, California, US

The company had great funding, the cloud native market was growing, and cloud security was becoming a top priority. But Sysdig had a problem - there simply isn't people in the job market with the relevant domain knowledge to join the team and help grow our market. I was approached to solve this problem, as someone with solid technical knowledge of both the.

San Francisco, California, US

Sysdig was growing, but as a US based company, they were struggling to manage a world-wide team. I was promoted to help cover EMEA, including teams in Singapore and India. We grew the team from 3 to 13 before I moved on, and had staff across the region. We were fully remote and usually worked asynchronously. The team had a hugely supportive culture, and we.

San Francisco, California, US

Sysdig was early stage, but starting to grow. They had a new sales team in EMEA, but needed some technical assistance with a complex product. I joined to help the EMEA team in the presales stages, but quickly worked out for success I needed to work with customer success and support teams too. We built a virtual team that although had different reporting.

London, GB

Vocalink is a fundamental core part of the UK banking system, but the company had a challenge: How can we grow the business given we already have significant market share of the UK? The solution was to be able to package up their payments platform and deliver this around the world, expanding their market offering. I was brought in as part of a team tasked.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Hedvig has brought to market a truly unique storage solution. As with most software-defined solutions it of course scale-out, but what makes it unique is the ability to scale-out as an active/active/active cluster across multiple physical (and logical) locations, including public clouds. All this from an enterprise tier-1 storage platform.My role at Hedvig.

Halifax, GB

Assisting the team with the design, deployment and transition of a new infrastructure to support a new business initiative. Working with VMware, Tegile, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Zerto and Veeam with lots of PowerShell. PowerShell automation work both for environment automation and auditing / health checks, integrating across various APIs and modules.

We work with businesses of all shapes and sizes, at all levels. Our main focus is helping people better understand what technology can do for their business and how they can adapt their own skills to stay relevant to both the business and the latest technology. We can help build an IT or cloud strategy, assistance with writing and running tenders (RFP.

London, London, GB

Brought on to assist with several transformation projects within the business, including driving data centre efficiencies, strategic use of IaaS (both private and public), unified communications, PCI-DSS, Active Directory consolidation and other projects. Assisted in setting standards for consumption of AWS cloud services, as well as migrating specific.

London, England, GB

Kelway are rapidly becoming one of the UKs leading system integrators / value-added resellers. In addition to the very successful fulfilment business, in 2011 they committed to growing in the services and solutions areas and I was employed to help develop and build this. Working across multiple technologies including a primary storage focus on HDS, EMC.

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, GB

• Senior NetApp Consultant working to deploy all the largest projects on all levels of systems. Specialising in minimising downtime and impact of any project
• Senior VMware Specialist working to deploy many environments in excess of 200 VMs
• Assisted many customers design complete DR policy and how this can be automated with existing NetApp and VMware technologies
• Consulting role working to win new projects with customers who are existing VMware or NetApp users but require more of a technical deep dive and troubleshoot complex architectures
• Designed, deployed and managed a custom support infrastructure to support around 500 NetApp systems (B2net are now ASP certified in part due to this work)
• Custom scripting using PHP and BASH to assist customers to fill management and automation gaps before projects and technologies filled this