Results-oriented, Professional Services, Partnerships, and Product Management Senior Leader with 12+ years of B2C, B2B, and global experience spanning SaaS (GRC, BPM, CRM, Cyber Security, SOC, and Fintech) experience. Passionate about building efficient teams in different work setups (large enterprises, Startups) and coaching/mentoring the broader Professional Services & Business Development community.Here are some of my key career accomplishments:- Promoted within several organizations (Stripe, IBM Security, Pegasystems)- Helped with a startup exit (Resilient Systems) to IBM security, and set up its professional services team and practice, by hiring and scaling its business from $1M to $12M in ARR in 12 countries within 3 years. - Spearheaded the partner program within Stripe to interview, hire, and onboard 12 ISVs and strategic partners to augment our professional services capabilities and improve revenue by 40% and go-lives by 3X year over year.- Merged 3 teams within IBM security (QRadar, SOAR, CloudPak for security) to form the Threat Management practice and built cross-selling offerings that resulted in a 30% revenue increase within our sales team, and a cross-skilled talent pool that was able to work on challenging and engaging projects with customers.- Worked with Pegasystems as a professional who helped shape the product management, marketing and analyst relations team to build compelling products (PEGA express) for the mid-market segment which increased revenue by 29% year over year.- Mentored multiple startups in two large startup incubators that resulted in them in securing funding and expanding their businesses to new markets in MEA- Led product efforts at an early-stage startup (Swerdlove consulting) and increased new signups in our SaaS PO product from 30/month to 100/month by building a strategic distribution plan.- 12+ years of experience working with globally distributed product, sales, and engineering teams.- Personally worked in 17 countries with the ability to speak (French, Arabic, and English) fluently and understand cultural differences and adapt to them.- Completed a challenging MBA program from Boston University while working full-time.Bridging teams, removing conflict and understanding the value of technology while leading coherent teams is what I am passionate about and what I excel at. Feel free to drop me a note at rxbennani1@gmail.com
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