Dreamdata

- Team coaching
- Forecasting
- Pipeline Management
- Direct sales to target accounts

Sales Director, US

Leading the US sales team:
- Outbound practices
- Sales excellence
- Team coaching
- Forecasting

Sales Manager - US

Closed the largest deals with Dreamdata enterprise clients.
Going upmarket - building sales processes, coaching junior AEs

Senior Account Executive

The first sales person in the team to close non-founder led deals.
Closed over € 200K in the first year at the early startup days for Dreamdata.
Closed over 50% of all deals in the second year including crushing the largest deals & fattest quarters.

Actively building Linkedin thought leadership about Marketing and Sales alignment. 
Grew Linkedin followers from 2000 to 8000 within a year. 
Most of my own sourced leads come from inbound -> Linkedin. 

Sales Pathfinder: Building Dreamdata sales practices from scratch: processes, measurements, sales decks.
Experimenting and testing the practices while building those.

Account Executive

ValueOrbit

Advising the founders team on growth strategies through marketing, sales and thought leadership strategies.

- bringing in potential prospects for founders to meet
- posting LinkedIn content about companies services
- advising founders about their social content on Linkedin and other platforms

Advisor

Commsor 🦕

Sendspark

Strategic Advisor

Limelight

Strategic Advisor for Limelight platform development to enable: 
- B2B companies to find the right Influencers
- B2B Influencers to find and manage partnerships with companies

Variance

Coaching Variance Sales on outbound practices and quality outreach.

Sales Advisor

Gartner

Overachieved the yearly target with 130%.

Worked with the C and VP level leaders at the Danish Enterprise clients. Mostly with CIO's and CTO's

I helped them navigate and buy the right Gartner solutions that were used for building organizational restructuring and further innovation during COVID. 

During this hard time of all business slowing down, I was the first AE in the team to land a NewBiz deal 6 months from COVID start!

Enterprise Account Executive

DigiPippi

We at DigiPippi are working with the two UN goals to transform the world through quality education (4) and gender equality (5).
DigiPippi operates through workshop events run and coordinated by the fantastic female rolemodels. 

We are changing the world through young women in tech.

Board Member

Red Hat

Sold complicated OpenSource solutions to Danish Enterprise clients. Closed some of the largest Nordic deals. 

Overachieved sales targets with 120%

I was spearheading the NewBiz deals, upsells and renewals. All the sales engagements were tightly coordinated with marketing, pre-sales, tech teams and management.

Enterprise Account Manager

An active member of the Global Diversity and Inclusion team Globally representing the Nordic region. Members were chosen and rotated for 2 or 3 years periods within the various D&I subjects.
I was responsible for bringing the Diversity and Inclusion subjects to the Red Hat team in the Nordic and driving the necessary actions.

Diversity and Inclusion Advisor

Awarded as Nordic Inside Sales Person of the year - 2017
Over achieved Inside Sales targets by 130%

Translating customer business needs into the further innovation and partnership plans with Open Source technologies.
- Key client management,
- Business development,
- Subscription renewals,
- Pricing.

Main customers within: FSI, Public Sector, Manufacturing.

Enterprise Inside Sales Specialist

DXC Technology

- Aligning and simplifying general business processes in the Digital Applications organization
- Analyzing financial reporting 
- Ensuring ongoing clear communication in the organisation

Business Process Analyst

Leader of a highly skilled Application Business Analysts & Graduates

- People Management
- Delivery coordination in the respective accounts personnel is assigned to
- Education planning
- Coaching
- Reporting

Manager - Application Development 

- Building a University Relations organization in CSC Nordic
- Talent Relationship Management
- Running and delegating Employer Branding and recruitment activities at the universities to the team members in CSC Nordic 
- Supporting CSC Nordic Graduate Program initiatives

Graduate Program Manager

Knowledge Management

- Mastering CSC internal knowledge management tools for the knowledge share and reuse in the European Architecture group.
- Building educational plans for the Architecture group coordinated with the Global Architecture organization.
- Enabling knowledge share and reuse culture in the large group of IT Architecture professionals.
- Coordinating IT Architecture Talent program
- Establishing local and virtual Lunch & Learn events culture in CSC Nordic which are acknowledged globally.
- Planning and managing partner led Technology events in the Nordic

Nordic Transformation Program coordination

- Supporting the employee retention planning throughout the CSC Nordic Organization.
- Translating Global business needs to specific project requirements. Tracking and ensuring that the program is anchored and executed in the various Business Units.
- Supporting the financial Transformation execution.

Transformation recruitment project lead in the Nordic

- Leading a Technical Trainee program.
- Recruiting over 50 Technical Trainees in Denmark.
- Selecting recruitment partners, negotiating contracts.
- Building communication campaign for the Trainee program.
- Leading education and knowledge transfer planning for all the newcomers.

Nearshoring recruitment project lead

- Planning nearshoring possibilities in the organisation.
- Leading hiring initiatives in Lithuania.
- Coordinating knowledge transfer initiatives in the separate business units.

Knowledge Management Consultant

Resource Management in the Nordic Architecture organization:

- Effective management of over 100 resources in the Nordic Architecture group. 
- Assigning the right resources to the right projects within the requested time, budget and skills requirements. 
- Tracking and forecasting resourcing situation in the organization, focusing on resourcing process improvement.

Resource Manager

Revenue Attribution◾️ Dreamdata◾️ Sales leader with a crush on marketing

👩🏻‍💻 Professionally :
- Sales leader with a flavour for Marketing 🤝 
- Sales Pathfinder
- Doubling my LinkedIn followers base each year through content creation here.
I generate all my sales leads inbound from Linkedin Social Selling.
How do I know that Linkedin delivers Revenue?
Follow my Linkedin course on how to measure Linkedin Social Selling to Revenue: 

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/how-to-measure-linkedin-social-selling-to-pipeline/[…]g-and-adjusting-strategies-based-on-performance?


💃 Personally:
- Interested in B2B Influencer marketing.
- Morning 5K runner
- Appointed as an upcoming talent in Denmark u34
https://www.berlingske.dk/karriere/til-kamp-for-kvinder-i-it

Currently testing out the hypothesis: 
If you want to work in the past - join an enterprise.
If you want to work in the future - join a startup.

Fun fact: I was a weekend radio DJ for 2 years in my teen years 🎧

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Alan Ruchtein

CEOs: Broken pipeline & poor performer sales reps? I fix both for you in <60 days. You’ll hate how fast it works. | Modern Seller Program Founder

Your ability to book meetings, negotiate, and close deals with potential clients will determine how far you’ll thrive as a sales rep and leader.

This will allow you to:

📈 Build a career
📈 Hit your quotas
📈 Get recognition
📈 Get a promotion
📈 Get better offers
📈 Land sponsorships

However, booking meetings and closing deals it’s harder than ever:

❌ Prospects don’t return your calls
❌ Prospects don’t stop ghosting you
❌ Prospects don’t answer your emails
❌ Prospects don’t trust you as a seller
❌ Prospects don’t believe in your offer 
❌ Prospects don’t accept your LinkedIn Invite

All of these makes you feel miserable

You feel your manager’s pressure on your shoulder

And you start thinking that sales might not be for you.

Do you relate with this? Because I do - I’ve been there

This happens because the “old way” of doing sales doesn’t work anymore.

Sending 1000s of generic emails and praying they get back to you will kill your sales career.

Now, imagine having a proven system that allows you to systematically:

✅ Book more meetings
✅ Handle all the objections
✅ Move deals through the pipe
✅ Close higher tickets in less time
✅ Run discovery and demo calls like a pro

And, hitting your sales quota.

Wouldn't this be the scenario you would like to be in?

The good news - I can help you get there with:

➝ My weekly Newsletter with actionable sales tactics
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77 AI Use cases every seller should know:

These are the workflows that separate average sales teams from elite modern ones, the real levers behind faster pipelines, cleaner forecasts, and higher close rates.

I put together a 77-point Sales AI Cheatsheet covering every stage of the revenue engine:

✅ Identify ideal buyers fast.
✅ Protect forecast accuracy.
✅ Automate RevOps workflows.
✅ Enable buyers to move faster.
✅ Personalize outreach at scale.
✅ Automate outbound with context.
✅ Turn every call into a coaching loop.

Whether you're an SDR, AE, SDR, Sales Director, VP Sales, or CEO, this cheatsheet shows exactly where AI adds revenue, not noise.

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How I book +70 meetings/mo for clients at 20% of the cost of having 4 reps performing at full capacity:

OLD WAY

-4 SDRs
-Multiple salaries
-Bloated tool stack
-Manual research
-Manual emails
-Manual follow-ups
-20–30 meetings/month (team)

NEW WAY

-1 Modern Seller (AI-powered)
-Lean, precise, high-output
-Modern tool stacks
-60+ meetings/month (one rep)

(Partial) Techstack used:

Maildoso: Email infrastructure
Clay: Enrichment & Research at scale
ChatGPT: Personalization & Messaging
FullEnrich: Waterfall enrichment for emails/phones
DeBounce: Data validation
Instantly.ai: Sending tool

And +10 other tools to complete the full tech stack and strategy ;)

You don’t need a better product, or a fancy new feature.

You need (and deserve) the right modern GTM AI sales system that relies on intent, data, information and relevant insights.

That’s how you book meetings at scale in 2025, not by spamming prospects.

If you want to build a real process once and for all, DM me “system” and let’s do it together.

You won’t believe how fast your calendar gets hammered with qualified meetings. (I’m not cheap, but I’m good!)

+32% of your inbound calls go unanswered.
And +80% of those callers never call back.
Here’s how to solve it:

Last week, I shared that stat with a founder. Small team, lean setup, SDRs booked solid.

Midday calls were basically a roulette wheel: if someone was free, great. If not? Lost revenue.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody says out loud:

If you can’t answer fast, you’ve already lost.

So we did what ELITE teams do: We tested AI.

Not to replace reps. To protect revenue.

Here’s what we built using CloudTalk:

→ An AI receptionist that picks up every call
→ Instantly qualifies the lead with high quality
→ Routes the hot ones to sales, or books them straight into Calendly
→ Logs everything to HubSpot automatically

No IVRs or “hold on” music. No “sorry, we missed your call.”

Results in 14 days:

- 57 new inbound calls captured
- 19 auto-qualified and booked
- 0 reps added

It runs in the background, 24/7. No “we’ll call them back later.” 

And the funny thing? Reps actually prefer it, because all the noise disappears and they can focus on real selling.

Here’s the principle I teach every team: AI shouldn’t replace reps. It should replace the tasks reps should’ve never been doing.

AI handles repetitive stuff. Humans sell.

The phone stack is the AI stack.

If you’ve got reps wasting time on “just checking” calls… or worse, missing them entirely, test this: https://lnkd.in/dHKteqHJ

PS: Tell CloudTalk you came from me and you’ll get an extra $100 in AI Voice Agents credits on your subscription.

Outbound didn’t suddenly get hard. Buyers got smarter and you didn’t.

You “use AI” sure but when I look under the hood, it’s still the same manual guessing game.

The teams actually getting replies?
 
They treat AI as infrastructure, not a shortcut and they nail all 10 of these 👇

1️⃣ Are you letting AI track buying signals before you even start outreach?
If you’re not… you’re basically guessing. That’s not prospecting.

2️⃣ Are leads enriched instantly so reps aren’t flying blind?
Because nothing kills relevance faster than missing data.

3️⃣ Does every outbound message actually start from a real POV?
AI should give you context → you turn it into clarity → that’s what gets replies.

4️⃣ Is your messaging adapting to behavior, or are you still running static sequences?
If it doesn’t react, buyers ignore it. Simple

5️⃣ Are reps still doing manual research?
They shouldn’t be. Intel briefs should hit their inbox automatically.

6️⃣ Are your emails rewritten for clarity and mobile?
Buyers skim. Most reps write novels. You already know how that ends.

7️⃣ Are you analyzing wins with AI to see what’s actually working?
Because “my gut says…” is not a strategy.

8️⃣ Is AI doing the grunt work so reps can spend their time on actual conversations?
This one alone frees up 5–10 hours a week. Every week.

9️⃣ Are objections being handled before the prospect even raises them?
Top teams don’t react. They prevent it.

🔟 Are reps trained to operate AI as a workflow, not treat it like some shiny tool?
This is the real separator between “using AI” and actually winning with it.

If you're not answering “yes” to at least 8 of these, you’re not AI-native, you’re just an AI simple user.

If you want to solve this, DM me “AI” and let’s see if we can work together on building a robust Sales-AI-driven process together

AI is tracking more about your pipeline than your reps are. Here are 15 metrics AI catches that humans ALWAYS miss (and why it matters):

Save this. Your competitors will.

1. Deal Stagnation Alerts

AI flags every opportunity that has been idle for more than 14 days and scores the risk based on the stage and silence duration.

2. Velocity by Persona

Know exactly how fast VPs, Directors, or Managers move between stages. Different personas have different speeds.

3. Pipeline Leakage Detection

AI shows where deals die (after demo, proposal, negotiation) and why they die using call transcripts and CRM analysis.

4. Sentiment Shifts in Calls

Tracks tone, pauses, hesitation, interest.  Buyers tell you everything without saying it.

5. Email & DM Emotion Tracking

NLP scores every reply as positive, neutral, or skeptical. You’ll know who’s actually leaning in.

6. Content Interaction Heatmaps

Which links, PDFs, and messages does your ICP click, read, or ignore.

7. Reply Rate by Value Prop

ROI vs. efficiency vs. cost savings: AI reveals which angle hits hardest.

8. Objection Type Frequency

Automatically tags “budget,” “timing,” “not a priority,” and trends it across calls. You’ll see patterns your reps never notice.

9. CTA Conversion Rate

“Quick reply” vs “Deck?” vs “15 minutes?” AI tells you which CTA closes by persona.

10.  Talk-to-Listen Ratio

Tracks rep talk time vs buyer talk time and correlates it with win rates. Top reps talk less. Always.

11. Discovery Question Depth

Score questions by quality, layering, and intent. This stops surface-level discovery.

12. Follow-Up Timing Impact

Same-day vs next-day. AI knows which timelines close faster (hint: timing leads to conversion).

13. Deal Confidence Scoring

82% close probability? AI calculates it using:
→ call signals
→ response patterns
→ champion strength
→ engagement

14. Risk Heatmap by Stage

Missing champion. No urgency. Budget unclear. AI surfaces risk BEFORE the deal stalls.

15.  Rep Forecast Reliability

Compare "rep gut feeling" vs reality. You’ll see who’s overconfident and who’s accurate.

AI isn’t replacing reps. It’s replacing every blind spot they’ve had for 20 years.

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