Suaad Sait Email & Phone Number

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

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

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

Chicago, Il, Us

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

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

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

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

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

Boston, Ma, Us

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

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.

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

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

Austin, Texas, Us

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

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.

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

Austin, Texas, Us

OneSpot delivers personalized, repeat engagement with content across digital channels.https://www.onespot.com/investors-and-advisors/

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.

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

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.

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).

> 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.

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.

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.

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.

Responsible for the Inconcert workflow product (now part of Tibco).

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

Master Of Science - Ms, Strategy, Marketing & Operations Management

Bs, Electrical & Computer Engineering