Kyle Asay

LaunchDarkly

Third-line leader responsible for three sales organizations:

- Global commercial and mid-market sales
- North America Enterprise Acquisition 
- Global SDR

First three months:

- Increased outbound pipeline created by 142%
- Increased outbound pipeline won by 67%

First 6 months: 

- Decreased Time to First Sale from 65 to 33 days (49% improvement)
- Increased Ramped Seller Productivity (revenue per rep) by 45%
- Increased revenue for my segments (US/EMEA/APAC) by 40%
- Drove SDR transformation leading to record-breaking Q4
- Increased PG ARR per AE by 114%

Responsibility increased to cover North America Enterprise Acquisition after impact shown in first two quarters.

Awarded “VP of the Year” and President’s Club for FY25 after completely turning around team morale, culture, while significantly increasing revenue per rep and increasing ASP by 2x. 

Q2 FY25: 73% quota (joined halfway through quarter, assessed org and determined priorities)
Q3 FY25: 85% quota (turned over 50% of team, began rebuild)
Q4 FY25: 91% quota (new reps ramped quickly, rebuild continued)
Q1 FY26: 114% quota (fun to see things working) 
Q2 FY26: 129% quota 
Q3 FY26: 109% quota

VP, Global Growth Sales

MongoDB

Second-line leader responsible for new business sales for the commercial, mid-market, and lower enterprise segments in North America. 

FY25:

- Q1 129% revenue target
- Increased New Logo quantity while increasing quality (6x increase in acquired customers over $1m TAM) 

FY24:
 
- 163% revenue target 
- Increased Employee Engagement from 59% to 84% 
- Rebuilt struggling org (went down to 8 ramped reps) back up to a team of ~40 while simultaneously going from lowest to highest rep productivity globally
- Accomplished the above with fewer than 2 inbounds per AE per year and only one SDR covering my entire org

RVP, North America Acquisition

Second-line leader responsible for new customer acquisition for the Midwest, Northeast, and Canada regions.

RVP, High Tech Acquisition - Midwest, Northeast, and Canada

Qualtrics

Responsibility increased to oversee all SAAS revenue for all Midwest accounts up to $2 billion in annual revenue as well as all SMB revenue in North America.

Second-line leader working with a phenomenal leadership team that oversees 60+  fantastic Account Executives.

2021 President's Club winner.

Proudest accomplishments of tenure were:

1) Lowest attrition of any sales leader across the company
2) Helping ten individuals achieve their goals of promoting into leadership roles

Regional Vice President of Sales, Corporate Midwest

Building out our new Chicago office. Second line leader responsible for all Customer Experience, Product Experience, and Brand Experience revenue for Midwest accounts up to $1 billion in annual revenue. Qualified for my 4th straight President's Club. All of my eligible direct reports (Sales Directors) also qualified for President’s Club.

Regional Vice President of Sales, Midwest CX

Asked to take on second-line leadership responsibilities to begin building our new Midwest Market Unit for our CX, PX, and BX product lines.

Director, Corporate Sales

I was the #1 CX Sales Manager for FY 2019 (out of 15+). In addition to being the top performing team as measured by revenue over quota, our group also led out in percentage of reps attaining quota as well as employee engagement. President's Club winner.

Senior Manager, Corporate Sales

I was the #1 CX Team Lead for FY 2018 out of 20+ in my cohort. The highlight of this year / role was Q4 when 100% of the reps on my team exceeded quota which gave us momentum into our record breaking 2019. President's Club winner.

Manager, Corporate Sales

- 2017 #1 Account Executive (out of 200+ AEs worldwide)
-  Averaged 157% of quota across five quarters
- President's Club
- I finished the personal quota chapter of my career story at a cumulative 140% quota attainment ($2.15 million in new business bookings on a $1.5 million quota)

Senior Account Executive

Missed quota for a couple of years (got close a couple of times). 

Suspended for one day without pay (long story).

Learned a ton, worked hard, results started to come and I earned my first AE promotion.

Account Executive

Promoted to AE after three months of being a part-time SDR because the company was growing very fast and they were desperate for headcount. 

Would have been a lot more successful as an early AE had I actually learned to generate pipeline.

Sales Development

VP at MongoDB | SalesIntroverts.com | Sellers promote faster with my frameworks

I begrudgingly started my career in sales as an SDR at Qualtrics. After realizing there was no way out, I decided I might as well get good at it and qualified for five consecutive President’s Clubs as an AE, front-line leader, and second-line leader. 

After an incredible 8.5 years at Qualtrics, I was recruited to MongoDB, where I ended my tenure leading their North America acquisition sales organization for commercial, midmarket, and lower enterprise segments. 

After nearly two years of rebuilding and scaling that organization I was offered a role I couldn't pass up to run global midmarket sales for LaunchDarkly. 

When I'm not refreshing my forecast and asking for deal updates from my teams at LaunchDarkly, I'm building frameworks to help other sellers replicate (and exceed) my success. 

You can join well over 10,000 sellers learning from those frameworks at SalesIntroverts.com.

Responsible for global midmarket sales and BDR functions for net new acquisition and customer growth.

The best sales content I’ve read in a long time comes from a buyer sharing how they buy. Today, I'm highlighting my favorite parts along with a little bit of my own commentary.

Let's dive into the highlights, and I'll link the full post at the end.

Highlight one:

“Every vendor tells me their product is revolutionary. You know what’s also revolutionary? Getting fired because your “revolutionary” product bricked the payment system during Black Friday. I’ve seen it happen. It wasn’t the vendor who lost their job.”

Key takeaway:

Sellers all sound the same. Every vendor has “innovation.” Every vendor has “industry awards.” Every vendor has “cutting-edge AI.”

But while we are blabbering on about how great we are, our prospect is wondering: “Where is this most likely to go wrong? And, if it goes wrong, how devastating would it be to me and my team?”

Highlight two:

“The vendor who won my biggest contract didn’t have the best product. They had:

• A reference from a CISO I trusted
• An implementation plan that didn’t require overtime from my burned-out team
• A CEO who personally committed to our success
• Proof they’d done this exact deployment 50 times before

Their competitor had better tech and was 30% cheaper. They also had a 12-month implementation timeline and no relevant references.

Easy decision.”

Key takeaway:

This one is scary. Imagine a forecast call where you tell your boss “my champion told me we have better tech and we are 30% cheaper.”

Sounds like an easy win.

Now, you know that your “champion” could be telling their boss: “This other vendor is more expensive and doesn’t have all the functionality. But it’s the safer bet.”

Your easy win quickly becomes a shocking loss.

Highlight three:

“You tell me features. Tell me what fires you put out and whose job you saved.

You show ROI spreadsheets. Show me CISOs who didn’t get fired after deploying your product.

You push for the enterprise deal. Let me pilot first. Let me look like a hero internally before I bet my career.”

Key takeaway:

You already know features don’t sell - you need to sell “value.” But are you selling the value your prospect cares about?

For most buyers "value" is a combination of “the safest bet to work + most likely to make me look good.”

Highlight four:

“Let’s have an honest conversation. If you keep selling products while we’re buying career insurance, we’re all wasting time.”

Key takeaway:

The job market sucks. Many people (including buyers) are in survival mode.

Are you selling an unrealistic dream? Or, are you selling “career insurance?”

If you are selling the dream, you may find yourself losing to the rep selling insurance.

You can read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/gkPTXFeC

VP Global Growth Sales at LaunchDarkly | Founder of salesintroverts.com

Vanta

I talk to security and compliance leaders every day, and these challenges come up again and again:

❌ Missing certifications = blocked deals and lost revenue
❌ Security questionnaires eat up valuable time—teams spend 10-40 hours per month on them
❌ Compliance is only a priority during audit season, making it tough to prove security year-round

That’s where Vanta helps:

✅ Continuous compliance – SOC 2 & ISO 27001 monitoring 24/7
✅ AI-powered automation – answers security questionnaires in minutes with 95% accuracy
✅ Less manual work – so your team isn’t stuck in reactive audit cycles

Security and compliance should support growth, not slow it down.

If these challenges sound familiar, let’s chat! 🚀

Catalyst Software

- Full cycle AE trained on MEDDPICC & Command of the Message frameworks, driving substantial
revenue growth and client acquisition in a dynamic post-acquisition environment.
- Leveraged full-cycle enterprise AE expertise to exceed targets, contributing to the company's
growth and solidifying its market position after the Totango acquisition.

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Outreach

- Achieved President's Club 4 times
- Ranked top AE among 75 in 2021.
- Closed five six-figure deals and secured 105 net new customers totalling over $5MM in revenue
- President's Club 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Enterprise Account Executive

- Managed full sales cycle for new and existing accounts achieving territory goals using MEDDPICC.
- Identified prospect needs and built effective business cases, demonstrating ROI and value of Outreach.
- Partnered with Solution Consultants for successful proof of concept demos to C-level executives
- Achieved quota attainment and maintained high pipeline generation and forecast accuracy

Commercial Account Executive

DocuSign

- Managed 80 customer accounts, upselling from web to corporate, achieving 104% sales targets. 
- Supported principal account executive in client outreach and meeting coordination.
- Enhanced client relationships through strategic upselling, driving revenue growth.

Associate Account Manager

- Led strategic outreach campaigns, surpassing quarterly targets.
- Achieved 134% of annual quota, generating $930K in pipeline opportunities. 
- Ranked #1 out of 30 reps in quota attainment, contributing to team success.
- Promoted rapidly, becoming 2nd fastest in company history
- Awarded Top SDR Producer for FY18/19, demonstrating exceptional performance.

Senior Sales Development Repesentative

Jordan Salon The Professional Man's Barber

•My father passed away while I was in college. I took a hiatus from college in order to oversee my family business and care for my 5 siblings and widowed mother. 
•Grew revenue from 90k to 460k by leading marketing, SEO, customer acquisition, lease negotiations, hiring, and overall business strategy. 
•Acquired barber license and gave over 1000 haircuts over 7 years to well-known tech leaders in the Seattle area such as the president of Microsoft, founder of Concur, etc.

Business Operator + Master Barber

Keller Williams Realty, Inc.

•Facilitated the buying and selling process, throughout the entire real estate transaction.

Real Estate Broker

Starbucks

•  Collaborated with team-members to develop creative and innovative solutions to deliver hot drinks to consumers.
• Formulated outside-the-box ideas while simultaneously working within the boundaries of the Starbucks core image and values.

Project Consultant via Foster School of Business

Macy's

•Refined customer services skills, advised customers, and learned management skills. and recognized as top performer.

Sales Consultant

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ  - وَمَا بِكُم مِّن نِّعْمَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ ۖ 

The obstacle is the way. 

When I was 19, my father passed away unexpectedly.

I had 5 siblings and a stay-at-home mom to take care of.

Lucky for me, I had spent many years with my father at his hair salon that he opened in 1987, where at age 9, I learned how to answer the phone, book appointments, and greet 6-foot giants with a firm handshake.

However, with no barber degree or management experience, I was thrown into the deep end and had to learn how to swim quickly.

I made more mistakes than I would like to admit, but fast forward 7 years, I had learned some priceless things:

-Gave over 12,000 haircuts having a 97% return rate and a book of clients consisting of leaders and CEOs at Concur, Zones, Microsoft, Expedia, and many more.
-Became the top men's barber in Bellevue (35+ Yelp reviews :))
-Learned how to run a business, manage employees and satisfy customers

This gave me a unique perspective on business and life in general.

I persevered to gain entry into the UW Foster School of Business and ended up graduating with an emphasis in Sales and Marketing.

I knew I had a love for tech and a knack for sales, so when a client of mine, who was an SDR at DocuSign offered to refer me, I did not say no.

I was the fastest promoted SDR at DocuSign, lived through my first IPO with them, and learned a whole lot about SaaS.

After mass blasting emails from Outlook, we got Outreach at Docusign. 

I fell in love with the product and ended up getting hired by the VP of Sales, on the spot during my interview.

Never give up and always give 100%. 

You never know where life takes you. 

I speak Arabic fluently, and some English :)

Thanks for checking out my profile!  Feel free to connect with me.  Would love to meet you!

Mohammed Kiswani

It feels different when you build something of your own… especially when it’s around things you actually care about. Faith. Fitness. Tech sales. Fatherhood. Real talk.

Every few days Futhallah or I get a random DM from someone we didn’t expect saying they love the podcast. “You guys just flow so well. 

Even if I don’t relate to every topic, I enjoy listening.” That part has surprised me the most.

Deen & Deals as a side project Podcast after work and weekends…  has been ridiculously fun. 

I’m loving being a total beginner in something again. 

This whole thing forced me to learn video editing, how to make YouTube thumbnails, use Canva, cut short form clips, and understand the difference between mp4/mp3/wav.

Talking about things I actually enjoy… and hearing people find value in it… that feels rewarding.

Most podcasts don’t make it past 20 episodes. 

We’ve posted 4 and recorded 6. 

Already 25 % there.

Goals this week:
• Get to 100 YouTube subs (79 now)
 • Get to 30 Spotify follows (12 now)

If you’ve been listening… appreciate you more than you know.

Episode 4 snippet below--> My ideal morning routine and why the AM routine needs to energize you in order to have a solid day!

https://lnkd.in/eudXxrWG

Sales @ Clari | Podcast Host @ Deen & Deals

Open video: the best morning routine as a tech sales dad ! 👨 on youtube.com

the best morning routine as a tech sales dad ! 👨

I often struggle with prioritizing and getting ideas out of my head into action.

And trust me, I've tried many different productivity systems and to-do list apps to make it work

Here's what I found works best for me.:

2 apps: Google Tasks + Google Doc

Google Tasks is simple and easy, and I make a tab for every part of my life:
-One for my work
-One for my personal
-One for my side projects

Whenever an idea comes to mind of something I want to do, I take the stress away from remembering and just open Google Tasks and put it in the right category.

Often times the best ideas come to us when we're walking, in the shower, or doing something totally unrelated to work. 

I made this Google Doc called "brain dump/content ideas." 

When I see something online that I really like, that I want to repurpose and make it my own and put my own spin on it, I just open up my Google Doc and I put it in there. 

That way next time I have my laptop staring at a blank screen for posting or my newsletter, I have exactly what I need and I don't have to start from scratch. 

Makes it easy. 

What other simple systems do you have in place?

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