🚀Accelerate Your Leadership Transition in 90 days 💥Growth Strategist for Leaders Who Care 🎯Executive & Corporate Coaching 🎯Career Coaching For Frustrated Professionals Who Want to Get Unstuck

You didn’t start your business to feel stuck, stressed or overwhelmed. You had a vision: freedom, growth and work that actually mattered. Then it got complicated. Now it feels like the business runs you, not the other way round. 

If that resonates, I got you!

I make AI simple to save you hours and sleepless nights so that you can scale with confidence. I know what I’m talking about; I’ve been in your shoes.

Who I Help

Non-technical SME owners in professional services, creative industries and impact-led businesses who want to boost growth with AI but don’t know where to start 

How We Make That Happen Together

✅ AI Training & Training Days– hands-on workshops, keynotes and training days 

✅ The AI Growth Lab (12 weeks): Flagship program with weekly calls, assignments and accountability to bake AI into your daily ops

✅ Strategy Consulting: People | Processes | Leadership – Optimise your team, streamline operations, & strengthen leadership

✅ High-Impact Team Training Days – People & culture programmes grounded in GEDI, HumanWorksX and TAWDI to lift communication, collaboration, & performance

What You Can Expect

✔ Practical, tailored strategies that work
✔ A clear, actionable plan for your business & you
✔ A trusted partner who helps you scale with confidence

Why Trust Me?

With 25+ years of experience at the highest levels of business, leadership, & strategy, I bring real-world expertise, a global perspective, & a results-driven approach.

Key Credentials:

⏩ CPD Certified AI Trainer
⏩ Triple-Accredited Professional Coach
⏩ GEDI, TAWDI & HumansWorksX Accredited  
⏩ Senior Executive Leader (Sotheby’s, $500M+ in annual sales)
⏩ Co-founder & President, Metropolitan Business Association 
⏩ Member of the Professional Speakers Association Spain

What Clients Say

"Maria’s insight made a tangible, emotional, & financial difference to the company."
— Zoe Loveday, Managing Director, SSK

"Maria’s intervention was critical in accelerating awareness around opportunities ahead, resulting in significant positive change."
— Bruno Vinciguerra, CEO, Bonhams

Beyond work? You’ll find me

🤝 Volunteering 
🌍 Relaxing in Barcelona (in front of the latest Netflix show)
🐶 Hanging out with my husband, Yann, & our jack-a-bee, Cookie

📞 If you’re ready to stop spinning & start scaling, book a call to talk about how I can support you

Your business should serve you, not consume you. 
Let’s fix that!

Not ready yet? 
👉 Get my best tips: https://askmariakelly.ck.page

Maria Kelly

Vparagon

VPARAGON is a sales outsourcing consultancy based in Barcelona Spain.

WHAT WE DO! 

We help Software (SaaS) companies sell their software in new local or international markets. 
We also work together with companies selling physical products with a degree of complexity, such as Robots or Medical Equipment accelerate their sales. 
Traditional trading companies also benefit from our services. 

OUR SERVICES:

Consultative Sales
Direct Sales – Channel Sales
High Quality Lead Generation
Surveys and Market Research
Analytical Reporting
Sales Training, Sales Coaching
Sales Management. 

WHAT WE DON’T DO! 

Do or die calls – We are not a Call Centre
Work on a commission based only scheme.
Take projects we do not believe we can add value to. (For example digital agencies or SEO companies, active in crazy crowded market places, where a direct sales approach is not going to bring the desired results). 

WHY US? 

Decades of Sales Experience
We are over 8 years in the market, with numerous recommendations and references. (Check my LinkedIn Profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-valassidis/ or our websites: https://vparagon.com/ or https://alexvalassidis.com/ 
We speak most major European languages. 
Above all is our undisputable INTEGRITY. 

You can find more information about our current or past projects on the “Projects” section of this LinkedIn profile.

You can contact me here: https://vparagon.com/contact-us-4/

Chief Executive Officer

Tenego Partnering

Tenego Partnering provide International Partner Sales Channel Development services to software companies. Tenego build and manage sales partner networks to sell, deliver and support clients’ products in multiple markets around the world.

Business Partner

Diagonal Mar Toastmasters

In Toastmasters, members learn leadership skills by organizing and conducting meetings and completing projects. The projects address skills such as listening, planning, motivating, and team building and give members the opportunity to practice them.

Vice President of Business Development

Blueliv

Sales Account Manager for Blueliv – Cyber Threat Intelligence – for the DACH, East European and Balkan Market in Barcelona Spain. 

•	Generate and develop new business opportunities for the company, create pipeline, sell directly – indirectly Cyber Security Solutions.
•	Supporting and advising, resolving Start Up related issues. 
•	Creating a sale from scratch, from finding the lead to selling the service. 
•	Performing online Demos of the solution to high executives in Fortune 500 companies. 
•	Account Management
•	Identifying and qualifying needs for Cyber Security.
•	A real ´´hunter´´, chasing the opportunity until it closes. 
•	Cold calling (outbound calls, B2B, new sales only)
•	Develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers, and other key buyers within the assigned account(s)
•	Closing deals

With Blueliv, enterprises can build effective kill chains to discover, detect, deny, and disrupt the growing number and types of cyber threats in the world today.

Sales Account Manager DACH

Arcserve

Inside Sales Account Manager for Arcserve – Back Up and Data protection – for the German market in Barcelona Spain. 

•	Generate and develop new business opportunities for the company, create pipeline, sell directly – indirectly Back Up and data recovery solutions
•	Account Management, end user focus, region South Germany at the beginning, Germany since March 2015
•	Quarterly Targets of 90000$ - overachieved almost every quarter
•	Identifying and qualifying needs in data management & recovery
•	A real ´´hunter´´, chasing the opportunity until it closes. 
•	Cold calling (20 – 50 outbound calls / day, B2B, new sales only, occasionally upselling licenses of existing customers)
•	intensive involvement/coordination of team within sales cycle, s.a. presales and partner managers (inside & field)
•	Support field-based Sales team members
•	Develop and maintain trusted relationships with senior level decision makers, and other key buyers within the assigned account(s)
•	Closing deals

Due to a strategic restructuring in Arcserve the Inside Sales Position has been withdrawn from the Barcelona office since November 2015.

Inside Sales Account Manager

Sitel

I started from scratch, after I closed my business in Greece. 

Technical support & Sales for the German Market at Sitel Barcelona on behalf of HP. 

Successfully resolve technical issues related to hardware and software from incoming customer contacts and proactive notification systems
• Work remotely via telephone, email, e-chat, and ticketing system to respond to first-level technical issues
• Respond to service, product, technical, and customer relations questions on subjects such as features, specifications, and repairs on current and discontinued products, parts, and options, based on customer entitlement
• Collaborate across teams to resolve issues and help reproduce issues in lab environment

The BEST salesman in the Whole HP department of Sitel!

Customer Service Agent & Sales

InterSell - Telecom Sales

•	Was the Nr 1 Company in the country in the Tourist Calling Card Niche with over 600 clients all over Greece. Direct Sales from me and my sales team all around Greece.

•	Sold Operated Assisted phone call services in Hotels in cooperation with the U.S. Company BBG Telecommunications and the Greek Telecom.

•	Sold and installed Wi-Fi systems in Hotels

•	Sold and installed coin telephones in Hotels, Campings etc.

•	Managed a team of 10 salespeople – employees for over 10 years. 

•	Owned 3 internet cafes in Athens and Mykonos

In the year 2012 the calling card - internet services and Operated calls business collapsed due to the widely use of smart phones.

Founder

Various

LIDL – STORE MANAGER Nov 1998 - Apr 2000: I was employed by LIDL a large international wholesale retail company. After training in branches across Greece, I have been working as manager, in its stores in Athens.

EUROMARKEN - SALES Nov 1997 - Nov 1998: Full time employment with Euromarken, Athens (Company specialising in the export, import and distribution of foodstuffs) After five months training in the department of Delivering Distribution, Exports, Imports, Sales and Dispatch worked in the sales Department.

MILITARY SERVICE – GREEK ARMY Nov 1996 – Nov 1997: Served the mandatory military service in the Greek Infantry based in the North Evros region, next to the Turkish border. 

PRIME TIME – TIME SHARING SALES Jan 1994 - Dec 1994: Employment with Prime Time (Tourism – Time Sharing) in the Department of Telemarketing - Telesales and in the department of direct Sales.

VARIOUS RETAIL SALES AND PRACTICES Sep 1987 - Dec 1993: As part of my university course, practices in various German firms. Holiday Jobs in companies and in retail businesses as a salesman in Greece and Germany.

Sales – Retail Sales – Door to Door, Store Management & more

-> Would you like to increase your sales by engaging new international markets? 
-> Are you a Technology, Software, SaaS company that wants to accelerate its sales, fast without the risks involved in this? 
-> Vparagon can help you sell your products / services / solutions effectively, increase your revenues and presense in new markets and territories. 

I am the Head of Sales and Business Development at Vparagon, a Barcelona based, sales consultancy that helps companies expand and accelerate their sales in new markets since over 8 years. 

WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU? 

Vparagon offers a holistic sales service for you. That means:

UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE

Understanding of your product & service first.

Understand the markets and industries you want to approach. 

Identify the correct decision makers of interest, secondary decision makers, third party players & influencers and then find their contact details, telephone numbers and email addresses. 

Create the appropriate communication strategy, our sales pitch, marketing emails, analytical emails and LinkedIn communication. 

Generate high quality leads.

ENGAGE

Engage those leads by emailing and calling them with the intent to generate a “Discovery Call” between them and you or conduct it ourselves. 

Follow up until we close the sale. 

MULTILANGUAGE

All these in the native language of your target market, (besides English, we speak Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and other languages). 

TRANSPARENT

You will receive weekly analytical reports and have an open communication channel with us. 

Our intent is to engage you as less as possible in the sales process. 

WHY US? 

With over 35 years of experience in sales and over 8 years as head of Vparagon, I and my team, have a proven track record of increasing your sales and revenues. 

Check our recommendations on LinkedIn and testimonials on Vparagon's website: https://vparagon.com/

You can contact us here: https://vparagon.com/contact-us-4/ or simply email us here: info@vparagon.com 

Thank you  

Alex Valassidis / Vparagon

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