Gene Kaalsen Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I lead and coordinate the SAP Partner GTM programs and initiatives across APAC to help drive sales, adoption, improve customer success, and evangelise Splunk’s offerings to SAP customers and partners. Tom Roberts, global head of software solution partners, SAP: “SAP and Splunk continue to build on our partnership goal of enabling the Intelligent Enterprise.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I established Australia's most highly accredited, elite-level Splunk reseller and professional services practice. I hold the personal responsibility as the ANZ leader for SAP PowerConnect for Splunk, the individual.
• Presented at 7, highly-attended IT Service Intelligence and Splunk for SAP customer events.
• Awarded top Splunk Partner in APJ at Splunk SKO in Feb 2020 for 334% YoY software growth.
• Individual contributor significant wins: -- Closed a healthcare opportunity for a 3-year Splunk Cloud subscription term to the value of AUD 1.1m-- Closed an SAP PowerConnect for Splunk opportunity at a major.

Sydney, Australia

I led a team of 11 AEs across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to overachieve gross margin goals and achieve successful customer outcomes through software and professional services. I was responsible for the four primary vendor alliance relationships with Splunk, AppDynamics, ServiceNow and Microfocus, as well as relationships with SAP, PagerDuty.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• This was a Country Manager role with sole responsibility for all sales and revenue targets, marketing and growth strategies across subscription software and professional services through both direct and indirect.
• Grew YoY software revenue by 308% for FY16 from a base of USD 508k
• Kony specialises in SAP Field Service Apps, and my SAP experience contributed greatly to our success
• Individual contributor significant wins: -- I won a Sydney-based Big-4 bank to use Kony in their app ideation and prototyping labs-- I won a major Brisbane-based credit union for software and services for their.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I held the individual contributor revenue target and was accountable for the business development and sales of all ISV Partner Software on SAP's price list in ANZ. I represented 21 ISV vendors such as DocuSign, Apigee.
• Achieved 117% of SW and Cloud quota of €12.7m for FY13
• Achieved 122% of SW and Cloud quota of €14.9m for FY14
• Individual contributor significant wins: -- I competitively won Commonwealth Bank to use SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood to automate SAP Core Banking end-of-day jobs

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I was accountable for a team of 31 specialists, including regional sales directors, account executives and a presales organisation. My responsibility included Australia, New Zealand, Oceana, South East Asia, Korea.
• Overachieved a revenue target of €37m for SW and Cloud quota for FY12

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I was accountable for Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia with a team of regional sales directors, AEs and presales members. I spent at least a week in Singapore every month travelling onward to other hubs.
• Achieved 141% and Presidents Club on a team target of €7.1m in FY11Partner Award:
• Recognized as HP PartnerOne Alliance Partner of the Year Award - Asia Pacific & Japan Growth Alliance Award for driving accelerated sales and adoption of HP’s converged systems

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I joined as the first individual contributor AE in APJ responsible for driving the business development and sales of ISV partner software and SAP's own IT Operations Software.
• Achieved 191% of individual target of €1m for FY08 (Not eligible for President's Club)
• Achieved 128% of individual target of €3.2m and achieved President’s Club for FY09
• Achieved 140% of individual target of €4.8m and achieved President’s Club for FY10

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• HP acquired Mercury and I took on the role to lead HP Software Direct with a team of 8 AEs and responsibility for all demand generation, new customer acquisition, run rate and renewal business.
• Achieved President’s Club for FY07 based on a combined contribution at Mercury and HPE
• I continued the accountability for HPE's partner relationship with SAP for SAP's SOLEX ISV reseller program

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• I established the Mercury Commercial Sales Division and built a team of 6 AEs and undertook responsibility for all demand generation, new customer acquisition, run rate and renewal business. SAP established the SOLEX.
• Achieved 156% of individual target and President’s Club for FY06
• Achieved 137% of team target and President’s Club for FY06
• Voted by peers as Mercury ANZ - Most Valuable Employee for FY06

• I joined as a [Commission Only] hunter AE in a contract role with no base salary, superannuation or any corporate benefits.
• Achieved 171% of SW quota for FY05 and broke numerous sales records.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Johannesburg Area, South Africa