Suaad Sait

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Growth Partner @ Great Hill Partners | Advisor, Board Member @ Great Hill Partners
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Austin, Texas, United States, United States
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About Suaad Sait

As a high tech industry senior executive, Suaad has played leadership roles at high growth software and cloud technology companies driving value creation of over $15B.Most recently, Suaad was the President of SharpSpring (NASDAQ:SHSP) which was acquired by ConstantContact. Prior to that role, Sait served as President of insidesales.com (acquired by Area Software). In addition, Suaad served as EVP, Products & Markets @ SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) and prior to that role, served as the first Chief Marketing Officer of Rackspace (NYSE: RAX).Suaad also serves as a venture advisor for Menlo Ventures and OpenView Ventures.As a passion Suaad has always advocated for diversity on teams he has been a part of and lead. Mr. Sait was also the co-founder, President & CEO of ReachForce, an OnDemand (SaaS) & Marketing Data Service business. Prior to ReachForce, Suaad was the vice president & general manager of Products & Markets at Pervasive Software (PVSW) with world-wide P&L responsibility of the entire product line ($50M+). Suaad served as the Chief Marketing Officer and COO of Liaison Technology (acquired by Forest Express) a software platform for supplier catalog content management. Before Liaison, Suaad served as vice president of product marketing at Motive Communications (MOTV). He was on the founding team for Ventix Systems and served as the vp and general manager of the enterprise business and vp of marketing. Suaad has also held leadership positions at DAZEL Corporation (acquired by Hewlett Packard), InConcert Software (acquired by TIBCO), CAP Ventures and Xerox Corporation. Suaad earned his Master of Science in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Rochester and a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Suaad has served as a Mentor for the New Venture Creation program at the McCombs School of Business - The University of Texas at Austin. He also served as an Executive Advisory Board Member of the American Marketing Association (Austin Chapter). In, addition Suaad served as a board member and President of the Austin Technology Entrepreneurs' eXchange ("Texchange").

Suaad Sait's Current Company Details
Great Hill Partners

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Growth Partner @ Great Hill Partners | Advisor, Board Member
Suaad Sait Work Experience Details
  • Great Hill Partners
    Growth Partner
    Great Hill Partners Jan 2022 - Present
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    Founded in 1998, Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm targeting investments of $100 million to $500 million in high-growth companies across the software, digital commerce, financial technology, healthcare, and digital infrastructure sectors. With offices in Boston and London, Great Hill has raised over $12 billion of commitments and invested in more than 95 companies, establishing an extensive track record of building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs and providing flexible resources to help middle-market companies scale. For more information, including a list of all Great Hill investments, please visit www.greathillpartners.com.Honored and excited to join the winning team at Great Hill.https://www.greathillpartners.com/media/great-hill-partners-adds-suaad-sait-as-growth-partner
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  • Auvik Networks Inc.
    Board Member
    Auvik Networks Inc. Jan 2022 - Present
    Waterloo, Ontario, Ca
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  • Perkbox
    Advisor - Perkbox Vivup Group
    Perkbox Mar 2024 - Present
    London, England, Gb
    Vivup and Perkbox to Combine, Creating a World-Class, All-in-One Employee Wellbeing, Benefits and Engagement Platformhttps://www.greathillpartners.com/media/vivup-and-perkbox-to-combine-creating-a-world-class-all-in-one-employee-wellbeing-benefits-and-engagement-platform
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  • Fusion Risk Management
    Advisor
    Fusion Risk Management Apr 2023 - Present
    Chicago, Il, Us
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  • Evolve Ip
    Advisor
    Evolve Ip Jan 2022 - Present
    King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Us
    ATSG and Evolve IP Announce Strategic Combination to Create a Leading, Scaled IT Managed Services Providerhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/atsg-and-evolve-ip-announce-strategic-combination-to-create-a-leading-scaled-it-managed-services-provider-302292268.html
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  • Bigchange
    Advisor
    Bigchange Jan 2022 - Present
    Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb
    Simpro Group Acquires BigChange - With Acquisition, Simpro Group Enhances its Best-in-Class Global Offering in Field Services Softwarehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241025262794/en/Simpro-Group-Acquires-BigChange
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  • Mission Cloud
    Advisor
    Mission Cloud Jan 2022 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    CDW Announces Acquisition of Mission Cloud Services Inc., a leading US-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Partnerhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/cdw-announces-acquisition-mission-cloud-133000753.html
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  • Menlo Ventures
    Venture Advisor
    Menlo Ventures Jan 2016 - Present
    Menlo Park, California, Us
    Honored to be working in a advisory capacity with a great VC team. I am focusing my efforts on sourcing great companies as well as serving as an executive advisor and/or board member for current and prospective companies in the Menlo Ventures portfolio. Currently working with:Gild (www.gild.com) - Hiring Success Management (Cloud/SaaS based) - acquired by CitadelBoard Member - June 2015 to Oct 2016OverOps (formerly Takipi) - Real-time Event Intelligence for Production Apps (Cloud/Hybrid/Enterprise)Board Member/Exec Advisor - Sept 2015 to Dec 2016 Unravel Data - Full stack performance intelligence for Big Data Applications (Enterprise)Advisory Board Member - January 2016 to present Platform9 - Cloud Infrastructure Management for OpenStack Private Clouds and Kubernates (Cloud/SaaS)Executive Advisor - May 2016 to 2018Other non-Menlo roles:Dyn - Internet Performance Management (company acquired by Oracle)Executive Advisor - 2016Vertiscale is a secure workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) - acquired by NeverFail 2016Executive Advisor - 2/2016 to 6/2016Lens - personal privacy block-chain systemAdvisor - 2018 - 2020
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  • Eloomi
    Advisor
    Eloomi Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
    Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Dk
    eloomi, a Great Hill Partners portfolio company, acquired by Ceridian/Dayforce.Ceridian to Acquire eloomi, a Market-Leading Learning and Development PlatformPowerful new people development capabilities to equip Dayforce™ customers with optimized training and development programs for the extended workforce.https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/01/18/2811474/0/en/Ceridian-to-Acquire-eloomi-a-Market-Leading-Learning-and-Development-Platform.html
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  • Openview
    Advisor
    Openview Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
    Boston, Ma, Us
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  • Examity
    Strategic Advisor
    Examity Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
    Newton, Massachusetts, Us
    Examity, a Great Hill Partners portfolio company, acquired by Meazure. MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Meazure Learning, a premier provider of full-service test development and delivery solutions for higher education and professional testing, announced today the acquisition of Examity, a leader in online proctoring for academic and credentialing programs. The acquisition allows Meazure Learning to expand its global footprint and strengthen its position as a leading provider of secure, user focused exam administration solutions.www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meazure-learning-strengthens-position-as-global-leader-of-assessment-solutions-with-acquisition-of-examity-301916446.html
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  • Sharpspring
    President (Company Acquired By Constantcontact)
    Sharpspring May 2021 - Sep 2021
    Gainesville, Florida, Us
    Clearlake Capital and Siris-Backed Constant Contact Agrees to Acquire SharpSpringStrategic acquisition to maximize growth and audience engagement for small businesses.https://investors.sharpspring.com/2021/clearlake-capital-and-siris-backed-constant-contact-agrees-to-acquire-sharpspring/Honored to join an exciting team at SharpSpring (NASDAQ:SHSP) with the leading Revenue Growth Platform (marketing automation and CRM) for the SMB market - businesses and agencies. We are defining the future of integrated modern marketing and digital sales.
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  • Auvik Networks Inc.
    Non Executive Board Member
    Auvik Networks Inc. Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
    Waterloo, Ontario, Ca
    Auvik Networks Secures $250 Million Growth Investment from Great Hill Partnershttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210715005554/en/Auvik-Networks-Secures-250-Million-Growth-Investment-from-Great-Hill-PartnersChairman of Compensation CommitteeMember Governance Committee Mentor/coach/advisor to CEO, CPO and CMO
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  • Insidesales
    President, Growth
    Insidesales Feb 2018 - May 2021
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Aurea Completes Acquisition of XANT (Insidesales.com)The Future of Commerce, with B2B Buying Experiences that Rival B2C, is One Step Closerhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210802005829/en/Aurea-Completes-Acquisition-of-XANTXANT is a leading AI-based Sales Acceleration software (SaaS) company. The company is the Enterprise leader in the high growth Sales Engagement category in the Sales Tech/MarTech segment of the market. Leading cross company growth - Product Strategy + Data Science + Marketing + Business Development + Emerging Enterprise BU.Leader of the end-to-end go to market for the Emerging Enterprise Business Unit. Honored and excited to be part of this team and look forward to future success.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180222006581/en/InsideSales.com-Expands-Leadership-Team-New-CTO-New
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  • Insidesales
    Executive Advisor
    Insidesales Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
    Austin, Texas, Us
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  • Solarwinds
    Executive Vice President, Products & Markets (Product Strategy, M&A Strategy And Global Marketing)
    Solarwinds Nov 2013 - Mar 2016
    Austin, Texas, Us
    SolarWinds was taken private in a transaction valued at $4.5B in Feb 2016 - https://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/solarwinds-completes-private-acquisition-silver-141620545.htmlResponsible for leading Product Strategy, Mergers & Acquisition (M&A)Strategy and Global Marketing for Solarwinds, a publicly traded NYSE:SWI focused on IT infrastructure and application performance management solutions. During my tenure the company grew to over $500m in revenue (profitable) and was acquired for $4.5 B in a take private transaction by P/E firms Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake.Lead and developed a 4 pillar product business unit strategy for the core business across Network Management, Application + Systems Management (incl Storage management + Virtualization Management), Database Management and Tools. Each BU drove their go to market, P&L and growth targets on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.Lead a data focussed decision framework for the business teams - with deep near real-time analytics for the growth engine of the company.Developed 3 horizon product and business strategy for the business as a framework to define organic and inorganic growth. Lead key acquisitions (3 companies + 2 technology tuck-ins) in the Cloud performance management space to advance the product portfolio and use cases for the business to transform Solarwinds beyond the firewall in the Cloud.http://livestream.com/NYSE/solarwindshttp://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20131105-906439.html?dsk=y
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  • Techstars
    Mentor
    Techstars 2011 - 2014
    New York City, New York, Us
    Mentor for TechStars Cloud - San Antonio. http://www.techstars.com/cloud/TechStars Cloud is a thematic accelerator that will fund companies focused on cloud computing and cloud infrastructure. Because TechStars Cloud is targeting cloud startups exclusively, we’ve assembled the world’s best and brightest mentors with deep cloud technology expertise.
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  • Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company May 2011 - Nov 2013
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    Growth strategy and revenue driven global marketing leader for Rackspace a public company (NYSE:RAX). Responsibility areas: Leading a global team in the areas of Product Marketing, Digital Marketing/E-Commerce (driving online revenue as well as lead generation), Online Sales, Online Lead Gen, Outbound Marketing (lead gen for complex sales), Segment Marketing, PR and Brand Marketing. Leading an organization of over 300 Rackers worldwide (US, EMEA in the UK, APAC in Singapore and Australia).During my tenure the Rackspace revenue grew from $780M to over $1.5B annually. The market value of the business grew from $3B to $10B.> Global launch of the industry's first OpenStack powered public cloud platform (2nd largest public cloud in the market) - Compute, Storage and Networking offerings - all software based cloud products (delivered via a cloud based/utility/consumption revenue model) to compete against AWS> Re-positioned and re-launched Rackspace brand in the global marketplace as the Open Cloud company as a key player in the Public Cloud market vs AWS, Azure, etc.> Digital/online marketing (SEO, SEM, PPC, Social, Content Marketing) driving revenue and leads for the business - delivering a significant percentage of all new acquisition sales (tens of thousands) including 100% digital only model (e-commerce revenue) for cloud only customers in the SMB (acquisition) and Enterprise (growth) segments.> Developed revenue oriented customer acquisition teams focussed on key growth segments in the market SaaS (Mobile, Social, Gaming, Ad Tech) and Web (content management and e-commerce)> Go to market focus a wide market segments including e-commerce (B2C), retail, healthcare, finance, technology(including SaaS), etc.> Secured leaders quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant (for Managed Hosting) as well as Visionary for Cloud
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  • Onespot
    Advisor
    Onespot 2011 - 2013
    Austin, Texas, Us
    OneSpot delivers personalized, repeat engagement with content across digital channels.https://www.onespot.com/investors-and-advisors/
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  • Workstreamer, Inc.
    Co-Founder / Advisor
    Workstreamer, Inc. Jan 2010 - Apr 2011
    Austin, Tx, Us
    a one-click business listening platform delivering a real-time information advantage to business professionals, in a sales cycle or in the boardroom.follow your customers, competitors, prospects, partners, vendors and more.Get a real-time information advantage from a myriad of sources ranging from blogs and published news articles to Twitter, LinkedIn, Jigsaw, salesforce.com and beyond.
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  • Reachforce
    Co-Founder President & Ceo - Chairman Of The Board 2010 To 2017
    Reachforce Oct 2005 - Jan 2010
    Austin, Texas, Us
    ReachForce (Cloud based MarTech SaaS company) helps B2B marketers increase revenue contribution by providing continuous database profiling and cleanup, inbound lead form data enrichment, and data cleansing and appending. We partner with B2B marketers to deliver better demand generation & customer lifecycle marketing results through data management.>Built venture backed marketing technology company from the ground up raising over $10M in debt (Silicon Valley Bank) and equity (G51 Capital and Greenhill-SAVP) financing>Company grew 100%+ year over year going from zero to over 300 customers in 3 years - customers include salesforce.com, Taleo, Concur, Polycom and Citrix>Defined the industry's only data factory to automate the production of role based contact data>> Initially President and then President & CEO
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  • Appleseed Partners, Llc
    Managing Partner
    Appleseed Partners, Llc Nov 2004 - Oct 2005
    Suaad's area of focus is product/market strategy development with general management experience in a number of environments from early stage startups to large sized global businesses. In addition he advises clients on offshore product development strategy and go to market initiatives through both direct and indirect channels. Suaad's experience in early stage software startups includes raising venture capital, product/market validation, building sales, marketing and product development organizations.> Delivered a market assessment study for Austin Ventures resulting in seed investment in an open-source software start-up.> Worked with Austin Ventures and Greylock Partners backed Troux Technologies assisting in the acquisition strategy for Computas as well as the product and go to market strategy for the company post acquisition.> Developed business, marketing and product strategy for an early stage start-up Quickshift working with Centerpoint Ventures and Interwest Capital – as a result, the company completed a serried B financing in May 2005.
  • Pervasive Software
    Vp/Gm Database Products Bu & Vp Of Marketing
    Pervasive Software Jun 2002 - Jan 2005
    Executive leader at Pervasive Software, a publicly traded (NYSE: PVSW) data products software company> Product line P&L accountability for $55M revenue business worldwide. Products delivered via ISV channel (data management products) as well as direct to IT organizations (integration products).> Lead organization consisting of product management, product marketing, product development (engineering, docs and QA) as well as customer support – direct organization size of 80. Matrixed with sales business development and other corporate functions.> Developed new go to market strategy to transform a single product/market company into separate product lines. Product line growth via internal development as well as technology acquisition.> Established product development in India utilizing a dual source model – partner and direct India software development operations of 35 engineers> Served as VP of WW Marketing and promoted to VP/GM of the Database Products Division ($37 M business world wide).
  • Liaison Technology
    Chief Operating Officer (Previously Cmo)
    Liaison Technology Jun 2000 - May 2002
    > Strategic direction; repositioned Liaison into an enterprise software platform business focused on “supplier enablement” for global 2000 companies’ procurement applications. Responsibilities spanned Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Sales and Services.> Raised series “C” financing of $6 MM in March 2001 from Dell Ventures, Austin Ventures, SSM Ventures and Techxas Ventures.> Rebuilt organization and reduced cash burn by over 60 %while changing market focus from an ASP service of $20K per customer to an over $200K per customer enterprise software model.> Increased sales revenue quarter over quarter growth of greater than 100% for 6 quarters. New customers included Dell Computer, Seagate Technology, VerticalNet, Forest Express and Comark.> Defined strategic plan synergistic with purchasing platforms. Aligned company with Ariba, CommerceOne and VerticalNet.> Created market impact through proactive Press and Analyst relations which resulted in coverage by AMR Research, Yankee Group, Computerworld, InternetWeek, Information Week, InfoWorld, etc.
  • Motive Inc.
    Vp Of Product Marketing
    Motive Inc. Dec 1997 - Jun 2000
    Early start-up team at Ventix and served as VP of Marketing/VP-GM Enterprise BU, the company was acquired by Motive in 2000.Vice President Product Marketing> Lead role in the integration of the Sales, Marketing, Product Development and Services teams post-merger.> Key role in defining the value proposition and e-business strategy for Motive Communications, which resulted in 200% quarter over quarter growth in revenue.> Lead the product marketing organization for Motive to define the product/market strategy and roadmap. In addition delivered strategic relationships with webMethods, VerticalNet and Vignette.
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  • Ventix Systems Inc.
    Vp/Gm Enterprise Business - (Founding Vice President Of Marketing)
    Ventix Systems Inc. Dec 1997 - Jun 2000
    Part of early team, 6th team member - Company acquired by Motive (MOTV)> Founding member of Ventix team; served as Vice President of Marketing and launched the company in October 1998. Company received significant customer traction and accolades from press and industry analysts.> Key role in raising series “B” funding from Austin Ventures, Intel, GE, TL Ventures, DB Alex Brown and Piper Jaffray Ventures of $10 MM.> Business unit represented 80% of revenue for Ventix. Grew revenue from zero to $4MM within 24 months of founding of the company. Organization grew from 5 to 65 employees. Customers included Elf Atochem, GE, Toro and Equistar.> Hired and lead marketing team (as VP of Marketing) including Product Management, Product Marketing, Inside Sales prospecting Global 2000 companies, Direct Marketing Programs, PR and Analyst relations.
  • Dazel Corporation (Acquired By Hp)
    Director Internet Products
    Dazel Corporation (Acquired By Hp) Aug 1996 - Dec 1997
    Responsible for internet product - MetaWeb> Responsibilities included the startup of a new internet based product line – DAZEL MetaWeb.> Delivered $1MM in revenue from new product within first 6 months of product delivery.> Launched product to market with Lighthouse customers, analyst references and press coverage. The launch resulted in DAZEL being selected as a Top 10 internet software company by Software magazine.> Defined product strategy, presented business plan to board of directors for investment focusing on ERP market with customers in G2000 companies deploying SAP and Oracle Applications.
  • Inconcert Software (Acquired By Tibco)
    Worldwide Product Manager
    Inconcert Software (Acquired By Tibco) May 1995 - Aug 1996
    Responsible for the Inconcert workflow product (now part of Tibco).
  • Xerox Corp
    Design/Project Engineer; Financial Analyst; Service Business Strategy Manager
    Xerox Corp May 1990 - May 1995
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Worked at Xerox in a number of roles as: > Design Engineer (Networking & Disk sub-systems) on DocuTech Product Line (digital press)> Project Engineer on DocuTech Product Line> Financial Analyst for Color Products Business Unit> Service Business Strategy Leader for Digital Color Digital Press
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Suaad Sait Skills

Leadership Product Marketing Solution Selling Direct Marketing E Commerce Sales Process Consulting Strategic Partnerships Salesforce.com B2b Online Marketing Executive Management Sales Start Ups Networking Business Development Competitive Analysis B2b Marketing Lead Generation Strategic Planning Strategy Marketing Automation Mobile Applications Direct Sales Demand Generation Business Planning Entrepreneurship Professional Services Marketing New Business Development P&l Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Product Management Go To Market Strategy Enterprise Software Business Alliances Multi Channel Marketing Saas Business Strategy Revenue Management Product Development Software Development Analytics Venture Capital Mobile Devices Mergers And Acquisitions Cloud Computing Integration Crm

Suaad Sait Education Details

  • University Of Rochester - Simon Business School
    University Of Rochester - Simon Business School
    Marketing & Operations Management
  • University At Buffalo
    University At Buffalo
    Electrical & Computer Engineering

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