Passionate about helping SaaS companies and startups build and scale. 

Experienced Chief Sales Officer (CSO) / Sales Director, I lead and support successful Enterprise and SMB SaaS sales teams to constantly deliver month-over-month growth, while increasing average deal sizes and minimising deal cycles and customer acquisition costs, even in the most challenging of environments. 

I help not only the business, but the teams I work with to grow and become better every day.

My specialities include;

Compliance Tech nerd, Business development, Sales Team development, Accelerating new brands, New logo sales growth, Delivering beyond expectations, Start-ups, Corporate development, Closing Strategies, Creative brand development, Product development, Content Marketing, Social Marketing, Responsible data use, SaaS, CyberSecurity, Data Protection, Privacy, IAPP Member, Cloud Computing, Channel sales, GRC, Storage, Communications, Big Data, GDPR, PCI, ISO, Data Security, AI Governance, risk management and compliance

Simon Neal

If you are operating in Germany, big NIS2 news today 💥 

If anyone would like help, guidance or just a quick chat to see how NIS2 or the upcoming UK CSR bill potentially impacts them, let me know 🙂 

#nis2 #euprivacy #eucompliance #infosec #risk #DataGuard #compliance #cybersecurity #cyberSecurityandResilience #CSR #nis2directive

📣 News just in from Germany: The Bundestag has voted to implement NIS2

A major step for cybersecurity across the country’s essential and important industries. Below are the key takeaways you need to know.  

If your company falls within the expanded scope, you may only have a few months to become compliant, potentially as early as January 2026.

Guiding more than 4,000 customers through their compliance and security journeys, our experts can guide you on how to tackle this new timeline. 

👉 Talk to our experts: https://lnkd.in/dhzWAuZB

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#NIS2 #NIS2Directive #Cybersecurity #Compliance

NIS2 law voted on in Germany

Uptic

GTM strategy, planning, and execution including persona development, messaging, and content, including case studies and factsheets for social media and email, along with presentations for sales meetings.
Implemented Hubspot CRM, Marketing, and CMS, including forms, outbound communications, and CTAs.

Certified for Microsoft 365 Fundamentals and Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.

Director

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After 25 years in the corporate world including 13 awesome years at Dynatrace, I'm taking a short career break and may actually get my basement organized!

CEO of Coffee | Dog | Cats | Home IT

Dynatrace

Leveraging an eye for talent, I built an entire global partner, channel, and alliance marketing function from the ground up, supporting AWS, Azure, and GCP, along with Global Systems Integrators, and national partners.

Air-tight alignment with Sales leadership, including Sales enablement and Sales operations, to create a shared vision with clear roles, responsibilities, and metrics.

Member of both the Go To Market Team and Marketing Leadership Team.

Entirely responsible for recruitment, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), multi-million-dollar budget management, performance reviews, organizational structure, success metrics, and team optimization.

Managed a team of 15+ marketers across global offices and remote working locations, responsible for comms, field, events, digital, content, operations, SDR/BDRs, and enablement.

Applied Account Based Marketing (ABM) approach to key accounts, with multiple personas, campaigns, and calls to action.

Head of Global Partner and Cloud Marketing Teams

Formulating strategy and directing execution of the Dynatrace Global Retail & E-commerce vision across Business Development, Marketing and Sales organizations.

Driving measurable success by working directly with leading ISV's including IBM Commerce, Oracle Commerce Hybris, Magento, Demandware, Sitecore, and Liferay to deliver disruptive digital experiences.

I embrace a culture of agility and contribute a unique mix of Sales, Marketing, Demand Gen, and Technical Product knowledge to weaponize Direct and Channel sales teams and deliver stellar client results.

GTM Leader for Retail & E-commerce

Account lead for Dynatrace (formerly Compuware) in the Partner Sales channel focused on productising Dynatrace APM within our partner services offerings, while also developing and executing a go to market strategy to drive revenue and margin through differentiation and innovation.

Partner Sales Manager

Cable&Wireless Worldwide

Application Hosting Infrastructure services for FTSE 250 businesses, including:

Network & Security
Physical & Virtual Server Compute Resources 
Storage & Backup
Database Management
Messaging, Collaboration &amp; Unified Commnunications

Datacentre Services Sales Specialist

ControlCircle

New Business Development for strategic IT Outsourcing. Complex sales projects including a range of services, technologies, and vendors including Co-Location, Security, Server, Managed Apps, Storage,Networking and Support Desk

Sales Specialist

Telecity

Major Account Manager for global clients, service providers and telco's. Large scale datacentre outsourcing and high density computing environments.

Account Manager

As a seasoned technology marketing leader, I bring over 20 years of experience in IT marketing and sales, fueled by a competitive and growth-oriented mindset. My career has been marked by a significant achievement—scaling a leading B2B SaaS company to $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue.

My expertise lies at the dynamic convergence of marketing, sales, and product management. Here, I leverage my skills to foster alignment and set aggressive growth objectives, crafting strategies and plans, with execution to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. 

I excel in distilling complex concepts into clear customer benefits and value, driven by a deep understanding of technology, which guides my approach to market strategies, persona development, messaging, and content creation.

I champion a challenger approach internally to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. I also apply challenger thinking to external messaging and content to communicate product and service differentiation from the competition and to challenge prospect’s status quo.

My focus on outcome-centric marketing means reporting across marketing and sales metrics to ensure investments and activities are driving the desired sales impact, with feedback loops to inform future decision-making.

Beyond my professional endeavors, I am dedicated to my community, volunteering as a coach for house and travel baseball, as well as travel soccer teams. This role not only enriches my leadership skills but also allows me to give back, fostering teamwork and discipline in young athletes.

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