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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Oracle Cloud Services and Oracle Advanced Services portfolio for North America. Manage entire P&L for a $600M+ business. Responsible for sales, delivery, business development, engineering resources.

Austin, Texas, Us

Leading GTM, business development, product strategy and business growth for Oracle's Generation 2 public cloud. Exponential growth of the platform over the past 2.5 years. Customer and partner engagement for the business unit.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

A dynamic, fast-growing international team of experts and forward-thinking technology enthusiasts working on the convergence of blockchain, AI and multi-agent systems. We are building technology for both today and tomorrow - a collective super-intelligence on top of decentralized economic internet built with a highly scalable next-generation distributed ledger technology. Combined with machine learning, this delivers the predictions and infrastructure to power the future economy.

Responsible for all Product Strategy, Global Sales, Business Development, Services, Channels and GTM-Strategy for PLUMgrid.PLUMgrid is a leader in software defined networking and security/microsegmentation for clouds. The ONS product is used by multiple cloud service providers, enterprises, service providers and financial customers to build and automate clouds that are highly available, secure and compliant. - First Executive Team leader to define and execute the sales/partner plan & product pricing strategy- Helped raise Series B and C financing with the Executive Team - Grew the software subscription revenue from $0 to multi-million ARR business- Closed one of the largest SDN/NFV deals at a major European Telco- Drove revenue and executed strong customer results with Fortune500 and Tier1 Telco's- Deployed, piloted and upgraded more than 70 clouds running legacy and microservices stacks across multiple enterprise and telco customers- Established PLUMgrid presence (direct/with partners) in key geographies – USA, Japan, EMEA, China, MiddleEast- Drove all worldwide OEM and partner agreements for enterprise private cloud sales (IaaS, PaaS) - RedHat, RackSpace, Canonical, Docker, F5, Accton (AWCloud, 99Cloud), SHI and others- Drove the GTM and Sales motions with key Telco/NFV equipment providers (Ericsson, Quanta+Redhat NFV stack, Canonical vCPE stack, NEC, others)- Built the entire sales, channel and systems engineering organization (0-20+)- Created reference architectures with Container, OpenStack & VMware private/hybrid cloud solutions- Developed a 24X7 support center- Grew the professional services revenue and built a team of DevOps engineers to support key customer engagements

Round Rock, Texas, Us

- General Management responsibility for $400M networking business at Dell post Force10 acquisition (Enterprise, Service Provider, SMB, Federal)- Team of 300 Sales leaders, sales executives, consulting engineers, inside sales and channels- Directly accountable for revenue, GTM, strategy and product integration- Managed a team of Sales, Sales Engineering & Inside sales organization- Managed the integration of Force10 and Dell networking teams. Meanwhile added significant headcount to support the combined business and growth objectives- Created Dell joint solutions with Server & Storage teams to accelerate the “network attached” business

- Responsible for a $120M business comprised of US, Canada and LATAM territory- Provided strategic direction for Asia & EMEA business- Managed a team of 95 sales executives, channels managers, sales engineers & inside sales personnel- Delivered one of the largest, most strategic deal at global cloud provider that was instrumental in the acquisition of the company - Major Accounts – Microsoft, Equinix, Level3, Salesforce, Facebook, Yahoo, Verizon, F5, Zynga, Craigslist, F5, DOE, ESPN, AT&T, TWC, Ebay, State/LocalGov, Gov HPC Labs … others

- Managed the West Coast Sales Operation (California, Washington, Oregon, Denver, AZ and British Columbia)- Managed a team of Regional Sales Directors, Account Managers Sales Engineers & Inside Sales - Built value added reseller and 2-tier distribution with established resellers like Dell, Qwest, Agilysys etc.- Key Business Verticals: Internet, social media, semiconductor, healthcare, gov/ed, software, retail- 2010 – 3 quarter achievement 110% of plan- 2009: 152% of plan – Top RVP of the year

- Handpicked to manage product and service bookings for Force10’s most strategic customers - Won largest net new accounts in the company’s history - Drove one of the largest deal in the companies history (Total bookings >$25M+)- Signed up 8 resellers in the Bay Area to extend company’s presence in mid-tier enterprise accounts- Built strategic relationships with top server & virtualization solution providers (Dell, HP, VMware, Oracle, Sun, F5)- Developed the Enterprise Data Center Strategy for the company- Trained the company in competitive strategies and Data Center solution selling- Key Customers: Google, Salesforce, Oracle, Sun, Kaiser, Zynga, Ebay, NetApp, Craigslist, American Express- Top Performer - 2006, 2007, 2008

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

CCIE # 6062Managing Strategic Cisco Accounts in Bay Area and West Coast

Mba, Finance

Mba, Turnarounds - M&A

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering