Erik Carlsen Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Campbell, California, Us

🚀 Excited to be at the center of Autonomous AI, where the future of IT leadership and innovation is creating tangible wins with real technology!Many IT & Business Leaders are facing the challenge of doing more with less—reduced teams, shrinking budgets, and the pressure to "keep the lights on." But here’s the truth: AI can do more than optimize—it can transform. At Join, we make corporate stars out of our clients with our autonomous network solution that:- Eliminates downtime 🚫- Cuts staffing costs 💼- Mitigates operational and cybersecurity risks 🔒- All at a cost that will impress even the most budget-conscious executives.As the CRO of Join, I’m focused on simplifying the complexity of enterprise branch and campus networks with AI-driven, ML-automated solutions. Our success is empowering IT leaders to deliver real AI impact where it matters most: improving performance, reducing costs, and boosting security.

Houston, Tx, Us

At Meriplex I am responsible for leveling up, creating, and leading national sales, marketing, business development & our customer success teams while providing cross-functional leadership and collaboration across finance, delivery, and ongoing field support teams.My team of VPs are highly disciplined and bring a programmatic approach to serving our clients which fuels my go-to-market intuition and a craving to innovate for clients. The best part of my day is working in service to our employees as a motivational and inspirational executive leader, with the finesse and experience in building, coaching, and mentoring high-performing teams.

Santa Ana, Us

I joined Anuvu, post-bankruptcy, and achieved a rapid sales turnaround, driving the company back to success and divestiture. This was achieved by devising and leading an effective sales and marketing strategy to boost revenue and position the company sale to FMC Globalsat. Notable Contributions★ Realized 146% growth in revenue within 12 months by introducing new logos across all vertical markets, such as cruise and ferry, energy and enterprise, government, yachting, as well as media and entertainment.★ Transformed underperforming company through hands-on education, train-the-trainer, and executive sponsor programs, which resulted in securing new contracts with 4 of the top 5 cruise operators, including world’s largest superyacht fleet.★ Grew greenfield markets by adapting product portfolio.- Secured a contract worth $3M with a first-to-market SpaceX product for the offshore energy market.- Became the fastest-growing Global SpaceX Starlink partner.★ Created and embedded new culture through communication and accountability.★ Led the acquisition and successive integration of Signal Mountain into Anuvu that strengthened Government Services practice.

Irvine, California, Us

Hired to turn around and sell PACs global satellite business (ITC Global) within 18-24 months. I was responsible for uniting and steering the executive leadership team while reviving all revenue-generating and rebranding activities during COVID-19 pandemic. Completed sale of ITC Global to Marlink from Panasonic with Morgan Stanley.It was me who capitalized on available growth opportunities by changing strategic direction and connecting with potential customers through new messaging techniques, including website, marketing campaigns, sales materials, and go-to-market strategy.Notable Contributions★ Oversaw business transformation and divestment of ITC global business unit from Panasonic.★ Reorganized business units, retained all customers and key employees, and accomplished stated objectives.★ Rebuilt new sales and marketing team by hiring top talent and generated exceptional results through industry-specific selling and permission-based marketing.★ Doubled annual revenue by securing new contracts worth $174M.

Bloomington, Minnesota, Us

While working over here, I provided executive-level leadership with full P&L accountability.By leveraging my business acumen, I managed cloud and as-a-Service sales business full lifecycle, valued at 15X multiple across all recurring revenue streams.It is worth noting that I served as an integral member of several leadership committees with special emphasis on overseeing acquisitions and company reorganization.Notable Contributions★ Demonstrated exceptional ingenuity and leadership skills, which resulted in gaining promotion and managing end-to-end cloud service offerings.★ Utilized leadership attributes to steer a team of 12 for seamless field sales operations, resulting in producing $250M in annual sales and maintaining more than 40% margins on $134M in Net New TCV.★ Grew cloud business division from $350K in TCV to $500M+ in less than five years. ★ Directed sales and associated operations for in-house customer financing services that generated $85M in revenue annually.★ Won multimillion-dollar deals and closed largest account of $70M in TCV.★ Acknowledged by the top management for consistently exceeding set performance goals:- 103% of 2019 sales goals, 119% in 2018, and 151% in 2017- 174% of 2016 sales goals and 312% in 2015★ Performed exceptionally well and recognized as 2019 Chairman’s Award Recipient for outstanding executive action in creating cloud sales organization.★ Nominated in the Executive Leadership Council in 2016 and 2017.

Education record

Mba