GUILLAUME LARRONDE

Extra Mile

Extra Mile helps B2B SaaS businesses and leaders drive brand awareness, revenue and business growth through buyer centric Sales & Linkedin Strategies that are innovative, measurable and actionable.

Few Brands and teams we have worked with: 
Unilever, Emrill, Air France KLM, Radisson Red, Nasco Insurance, Cigna, Voted Product of the Year, Gulf Capital, CXG, Dubai Golf, Infomineo, Chamber of Commerce France in UAE, Nanosun, POC Pharma, Dilitrust, Centre for Creative Leadership and the British Chamber of Commerce of Dubai.

- 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲𝘀: mindset, branding, networking & content best practices
- 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀: social selling, sales navigator, outbound & inbound
- 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: Linkedin Pages, Linkedin Ads, ABM, retargeting, content strategy
- 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: & C-Suite: Personal Branding, Etiquette & Best practices, Thought Leadership

Learn more & get in touch
https://extramile.me/

Fractional Sales Director | B2B & SaaS Sales Strategy Consultant

Nanosun is a global distributor of solar energy solutions, providing high-quality solar panels, inverters, and components to businesses across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Nanosun has 100 employees (majority sales) and is a direct and strategic distributor of Tier1 brands such as Longi, Sungrow, TrinaSolar, Canadian Solar, JAsolar, BYD.

Implemented strategies to enhance Nanosun’s marketing, sales, and operational performance. Key highlights:

• Social Selling Program: Trained the sales team in LinkedIn best practices and social selling, doubling profile views across Europe and the Middle East within two weeks.

• CRM Optimization: Cleaned and reorganized CRM data, improving segmentation by 40% and enabling better analytics for marketing and sales.

• HubSpot Adoption: Rolled out HubSpot for the MEA region to streamline trade show lead management, ensuring 100% lead capture and reporting within 24 hours.

• Email Marketing Overhaul: Revamped email templates and processes, boosting click-through rates by 25% and enhancing lead follow-up.

• U.S. Market Launch Support: Partnered with the American COO to launch Nanosun in the U.S., leveraging LinkedIn Ads and Google Ads to secure appointments and drive trade show success.

• E-Commerce Development: Directed an audit and roadmap for a new e-commerce platform and launched a Shopify proof of concept.

• Google Ads Optimization: Reduced cost per lead by 30% through targeted campaigns and dedicated landing pages.

• Basecamp Relaunch: Relaunched Basecamp to replace 80+ WhatsApp groups, improving collaboration for 100 employees over three months.

• Interim Marketing Director: Promoted to lead a $2M marketing budget for 2025, managing the marketing team and coordinating supplier brand initiatives to achieve shared objectives while aligning with sales goals.

Extra Mile Consulting: Sales & Marketing Consultant → Interim Marketing Director

Developed and executed strategies to expand POC Pharma’s reach into the SMB pharmaceutical market across Asia and Africa after their Series A.

Key achievements included:

• Enhanced Recruitment Strategies: Due to my Linkedin for recruitment expertise, I saw that recruitment was a big challenge and pain point so I pitched to the CEO and got the responsibility to revamp the talent acquisition process by integrating LinkedIn Recruiter and implementing the Workable platform and training hiring managers, reducing time-to-hire by 15% and increasing the quality of tech and sales team hires.

• Conducted Social Selling Workshops: Organized workshops to enhance employees’ LinkedIn profiles, especially for leaders and business development teams, with consistent branding and featured calls to action to educate ideal buyers. Trained employees on LinkedIn best practices, leading to a 30% increase in profile views within one month.

• Launched Targeted Marketing Campaigns: Set up LinkedIn Ads and email marketing initiatives, leading to a 10% increase in inbound inquiries and contributing to the closure of new deals during pilot phases.

• Established Scalable Sales Processes: Designed and implemented a comprehensive sales framework, incorporating LinkedIn data analytics to identify and prioritize target accounts, persona email templates and sequences resulting in a 20% increase in qualified leads within three months.

More about POC Pharma:
POC Pharma is a Series A startup specializing in digital go-to-market solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. It offers a SaaS platform that provides data-driven insights collected at PoS and pharmacies, enabling pharmaceutical companies, distributors, and wholesalers to learn from real insights and analytics to drive sales and marketing strategies and business growth. The company operates across emerging markets in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa

Extra Mile Consulting: Interim Digital Sales Leader - POC Pharma SaaS Solutions

Merkle MENA

Your Social was a creative and strategic social media agency operating in Dubai and Breda (NL) before its acquisition by Merkle (part of Dentsu).
Your Social Middle East, provided full-service solutions specialised in social media (insights & social listening, strategy, content, community management, ads planning and management, reporting) and managed a portfolio of Tier 1 accounts like Damman, Bateel, Sony, Pioneer, ADIB. 

Key achievements included:

• Team Leadership: Managed and coached the account team, fostering development and ensuring alignment with revenue, service and business development goals.

• Generated Revenue Growth: Closed 1M AED in new business and add-on projects, including securing the agency’s first client in Saudi Arabia.

• Business Development: Created 44 new opportunities within a year, representing a potential pipeline value of 7.5M AED.

• Sales Process Optimization: Designed and implemented new sales processes, including pipeline management, performance reviews, and operational workflows.

• Marketing Strategy: Developed a comprehensive marketing plan, leading initiatives such as the Social Breakfast series, weekly blogs, and a monthly newsletter to drive brand visibility and engagement.

Head of Sales & Marketing | Your Social

LinkedIn

Linkedin was a transformative experience: 3 countries, hyper growth, IPO, EMEA Clubs, lots of amazing colleagues, customers and experiences. I started as one of their first employees in London to develop business in France and ended up in Dubai leading a team of superstars. Few highlights:

• First employee in France to launch Linkedin in France (directly competing with Viadeo) in 2010

• Part of the kick off team (3 persons) to launch Linkedin in the Middle East (Dubai) in 2012

• Closed over $7M in total revenue, $1M global deal, and qualified 3 years in a row for EMEA Top performer Club

• Spoke at La Sorbonne and multiple events including Linkedin Sales Kick off (2000+ employees)

• Worked with thought leaders and innovative companies like AXA, Societe Generale, Orange, Twenga, Louis Vuitton, Dassault Systems, Emirates, Etisalat, Alshaya, Qatar Airways, Qatar Foundation, Saudi Aramco, across many industries and countries

• Hired and managed the best-performing team in MENA in my first year as a sales leader.

• Using Social selling and social recruiting best practices day in and day out

Head of Enterprise Sales - Linkedin Middle East - Talent Solutions (Qatar, Kuwait, Oman Bahrain)

Key Accounts Director MENA and team leader - Linkedin Middle East

Enterprise Relationship Manager - Linkedin France

I was the first representative of Linkedin in France.

Account Executive - First Sales Representative for Linkedin Corporate Solutions in France

OneSource Information Services

OneSource was a recognized UK leader in B2B SaaS information services and delivered company, executive and industry intelligence (acquired by D&B)

My very first workshop on Linkedin for lead generation and sales was when one of the sales director invited a friend working at Oracle who literally opened our eyes on the potential of Linkedin for social selling before it was called social selling

Sales Consultant - UK

Artefact designs

Co-founded Artefact designs, a greeting card publisher distributed in Canada, France and England in 2007. The business was put dormant and closed after I joined Linkedin

Co-founder and Director

Mintel

Mintel is a leading market research publisher specialized in consumer, product and media intelligence. My daily role involved developing business in France, South Africa & the Middle East by selling off the shelf reports and subscriptions

I started using professional social network Viadeo and Linkedin to reach out to prospects and sell (my first social selling initiative)
Received Sales training on inside sales prospecting techniques

Business Development & Account Manager - France, South Africa & MENA

AdUX (previously Hi-Media)

Hi-media was an internet advertising agency in 2003 and is now one of the top Internet publishers and Ad agency in Europe. My role in the Direct Marketing team was to support them with campaigns or any other marketing related projects

Intern, Direct Marketing Team

With over 20 years of SaaS and international sales experience, I consult with leaders and b2b teams of organisations from enterprise to high-growth startups, on commercial strategies based on buyer centric process aligned with marketing, sales and customer success. I am strategic and results-driven, with a passion for leveraging linkedin, data insights, optimizing processes, mentoring teams, and building meaningful client relationships.

CEO - Helping B2B sales teams and leaders WIN more businesses with social selling

This is a bittersweet post to write.

After a lot of reflection, I’ve decided to close Extra Mile early next year.

Building it has been one of the most meaningful chapters of my career and life.
It taught me what it really feels like to build without a brand behind you. 
To sell, deliver, educate, and stand on your own — especially in a market as diverse and demanding as the UAE.

There were proud moments.
There were challenges I didn’t see coming.

And there were lessons I’ll carry for a very long time:
• That credibility is earned one conversation at a time  
• That not every client is the right client  
• And that entrepreneurship forces a level of clarity you can’t get anywhere else

But over the last months, something shifted.
I realised this chapter had done its job.
I had reached the limit of what Extra Mile was meant to teach me — and a new path was quietly taking shape.

So yes, I’m closing Extra Mile.
Not because it didn’t work.
But because my next step requires all of me.

I won’t reveal the details yet.
But it’s a move that blends everything I’ve built so far — sales, marketing, operations — into a role with more impact, more responsibility, and more growth than I’ve had in years.

For now, I simply want to say thank you... 
🙏 
Thank you to the clients who trusted me.  
Thank you to the people who supported me.  
And yes, even to those who doubted me — you pushed me more than you know.
Merci.

Closing a business isn’t the end of something.
Sometimes, it’s the beginning of what you were meant to do next.

More soon.

#ExtraMile #Linkedin #NewBeginnings

Head of Marketing @ Astruc & Co. 🔹 Founder @ Extra Mile 🔹 Linkedin Alum

If you don’t plan your time, someone else will own it.

A coach from CCL once told me the only conference that consistently filled rooms with C-suites was about… getting things done.

Not strategy.  
Not leadership.  
Not innovation.

Time.

Because without control of your time, you can’t control anything else.

The mistake?  
We treat planning like overhead.  
We treat action like progress.  
But without a map, “action” is just movement.

Try these 5 shifts:

1) Track your time for one week — the truth is eye-opening.  
      → Clockify was amazing for me and it is free

2) Block calendar slots for what actually matters.  

3) Protect daily and weekly review rituals.  

4) Rebuild your to-do workflow with GTM methodology instead of carrying yesterday forward.  

5) Prioritise using the Eisenhower matrix — no excuses.

If you want to think long-term, start managing short-term with intent.

Agree or disagree?

Grand Cosmopolitan Hotel - Dubai

Assistant Director of Sales

Sofitel Dubai Downtown

Senior Sales Manager

Sales Manager

RODA Hotels & Resorts

Corporate Cluster Sales Manager - Roda Al Bustan Hotel, Roda Al Murooj Hotel, Roda Amwaj Suites, Roda Beach Resort and Roda Metha Suites

Cluster Sales Manager

The Oberoi, Dubai

Responsible as the local, on property sales contact for clients. Proactively solicit and handle all revenue-related opportunities in a sales segment (Groups, Caterings and FIT),

Assistant Sales Manager - Corporate (Group, Catering, FIT)

First Filipina to join the Pre-opening Sales Team of The Oberoi in Dubai in United Arab Emirates

Assistant Events Sales Manager

InterContinental Hotels Group

Pre-opening Sales Team during the re-branding from Renaissance Hotel (Marriott Group) to Crowne Plaza Dubai Deira (InterContinental Hotels Group)
 	Negotiate and close business inquiries for groups of 10 rooms and above for MICE, Corporate and Leisure’s accounts. 
 	Closes the best opportunities for the property based on market conditions and individual property needs for social events and outdoor caterings
 	Analyse accurate timely reports that meet the needs of the senior management such as budget and forecast.
 	Number One of the Top Three for receiving “One Step Ahead Card” (IHG Global employee recognition programme) for Crowne Plaza Dubai Deira year 2013
 	IHG Mission Possible Top Seven Converter and Generator (IHG Global Promotion for employees)
 	Top producer of Events team of 6 persons, ensure to maximize revenue per space of meeting or conference facilities by achieving and exceeding average check and covers per month. 
 	Understands the overall market - competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, economic trends, supply and demand etc. and knows how to sell against them
 	Trained and coached trainees in handling telephone enquiries, OPERA PMS, Sales & Catering, preparing proposals, contracts and Banquet Event Orders
 	Actively participate in performing market intelligence by physical visit to competition and gathering timely feedback from customers to provide information on upcoming market trends, competition rates and promotions.
 	Builds and strengthens relationships with existing and new customers to enable future bookings
 	Effectively manages and develops relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
 	Solicits events parameter business for the property, including repeat, lost and turned down business of the represented events colleague as required based on market conditions or needs.
 	Conduct meetings, entertainments, site inspections, networking events to grow the hotels business.

Events Sales Executive

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

Acting Food and Beverage Administrative Assistant while she was on vacation leave annually.
 	Conducting Site Inspection and Entertains potential and current customers based on business priorities in the absence of Events Sales Managers or Event Sales Executive.
 	Collaborated with Events manager to establish Yearly and Monthly forecasts and budgets.
 	Actively participate in the development and maintenance of all policies, procedures and quality standards within the department, utilizing a continuous improvement approach to ensure a high quality, cost effective and customer focused operation.
 	Coordinates the activities of the events team with other departments such as banquets operations, F&B, Front Office, Housekeeping, etc in order to ensure smooth day to day operations
 	Ensures that all meeting, groups and conferences specifications are communicated and properly executed by the hotel operating departments to ensure a smooth flow of operation and thus creating a highly successful event experience for the meeting planners and participants.
 	Controlled all banquet operations by working closely with the Banquet Operations Manager for the planning of resources including control of staff cost, approving schedules, conducting weekly meetings, trainings, performance appraisals and defining objectives.

Events Administrative Assistant

Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel and Towers Employee of the Month (March 2007)
 	Consistent Cross training at the different administrative department such as Purchasing Department, Engineering Department, Food and Beverage Department to widen my knowledge in the different department of the hotels
 	Ensured efficient and frameless operations, including simultaneous oversight of service sequence while maintaining service standards for the restaurant that operates from 0630h – 2330h with 30 staff in operations.
 	Assisted Restaurant Manager in the planning of the operation, training, scheduling and evaluating staff.  Supervised and trained restaurant team of 25 head count. 
 	Developed and maintained guest relations and ensure that they have been provided a high standard service.

Waitress to Restaurant Captain

Hilton Hotels Worldwide

•Worked in all outlets including Steak Restaurant, Bar, Banquets and pool side.
•In-charge of cashiering and other restaurant reports

Waitress

With over six years of dedication at Sofitel Dubai Downtown, my journey from Sales Manager to Senior Sales Manager has been marked by a steadfast commitment to customer satisfaction. Harnessing emotional intelligence and servant leadership principles, our team has consistently driven revenue growth and forged strong industry relationships.

Specializing in the hospitality sector, I thrive on creating memorable experiences for guests, bolstering resort and banquet sales, and leading by example to empower my colleagues. At the heart of my mission lies the pursuit of excellence and a passion for elevating the service standards within the luxury accommodation landscape.

taplio

The Battle

GUILLAUME LARRONDE

Terilyn Andres

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreGUILLAUME LARRONDE's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

GUILLAUME LARRONDE

Terilyn Andres

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}GUILLAUME LARRONDE's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreGUILLAUME LARRONDE's LinkedIn Performance