Erik Orrgårde

CEO

Reading, England, United Kingdom19 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19 years of IT sales experience
  • Expert in Kubernetes and cloud-native transformations
  • Proven track record in driving go-to-market strategies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud-native solutions and business development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSales ManagementBusiness DevelopmentPartner Management

Other Skills

Cloud Native SolutionsKubernetesSales LeadershipCustomer-Centric SolutionsCross-Functional CollaborationSales StrategyGo-to-Market StrategyContainersServerless TechnologiesCustomer-Centric ApproachCross-Functional LeadershipServerlessPartner DevelopmentSales ExecutionStrategic Partnerships

About

Nutanix empowers organisations to simplify hybrid multicloud adoption and modernise applications with Kubernetes and data platforms. As a Cloud Native Sales Specialist, contributions include tailoring customer-centric solutions and collaborating across Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Partners to streamline cloud-native transformations. Core expertise lies in strategic go-to-market execution and fostering Kubernetes adoption to scale innovation. With over 19 years in IT sales and deep experience in DevOps and application modernization, previous roles at AWS included driving go-to-market strategies for containers, serverless, and Red Hat offerings. Passionate about enabling organisations to enhance agility and reduce costs, the mission has always been to deliver impactful solutions and foster long-term customer success. - 7.5 years+ as a Container go-to-market lead for AWS across EMEA and APJ - Also worked with Serverless and Developer Tools and as a PDM for Red Hat - 15 years+ in DevOps/SDLC Sales, business and market development and 19 years in IT sales - Cloud/Tech/Business strategist - Customer advocate - Bar-Raiser - 275+ interviews at Amazon - Passionate about people! #Nutanix | #AWS | #Microservices | #Kubernetes | #Automation | #DevOps | #Containerization | #ImproveAgility | #ReduceCost Tech Career Insider - Insights and Resources for Aspiring and Established Tech Professionals Helping people in tech through this free newsletter: https://techcareerinsider.beehiiv.com/subscribe - Please subscribe and share to anyone who wants to further their career in cloud/tech!

Experience

Nutanix

UKI Sales Leader - Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

May 2025Present · 10 mos · Reading · Remote

  • 🚀 Driving Cloud-Native Transformation with Nutanix
  • As a Cloud Native Specialist at Nutanix, I help organisations simplify their hybrid multicloud journeys and modernise their applications using Nutanix's cutting-edge Cloud Native solutions and Data platforms. With a focus on customer-centric solutions, I work closely with Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Partners to drive the adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, helping businesses scale and innovate more efficiently.
  • 🔹 Strategic Sales Leadership – Developing and executing regional go-to-market strategies for Cloud Native and Data solutions, ensuring customer success through a tailored, consultative approach.
  • 🔹 Customer-First Mindset – Partnering with key accounts to understand their business needs, identify challenges, and drive the adoption of Nutanix’s world-class hybrid multicloud platforms.
  • 🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration – Working with Sales Engineers, Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to ensure seamless solution delivery and customer satisfaction across the sales lifecycle.
  • 🔹 Impactful Relationship Building – Cultivating trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, from government entities to large enterprises, to ensure long-term business growth and strategic alignment.
  • I’m passionate about simplifying the complex world of cloud computing and enabling businesses to thrive in a multi-cloud world. Let’s connect and explore how Nutanix can help you accelerate your cloud-native transformation!
Cloud Native SolutionsKubernetesSales LeadershipCustomer-Centric SolutionsCross-Functional CollaborationCloud Computing+1

Amazon web services (aws)

5 roles

Sr GTM Specialist, App Mod (Containers and Serverless)

Jan 2025May 2025 · 4 mos

  • 🚀 Driving Cloud-Native Innovation with Containers & Serverless
  • As a Go-To-Market (GTM) specialist, I help organisations accelerate innovation and modernise their applications using Containers and Serverless technologies on AWS. Having led GTM strategy across EMEA and ASEAN, I now focus on scaling adoption in the UK and EMEA, collaborating with Sales, Partners, Marketing, and Specialist teams to drive impactful customer outcomes.
  • 🔹 Strategic GTM Execution – Leading go-to-market strategy for AWS Containers (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes on AWS, AWS Fargate, AWS App Mesh, AWS Proton, RedHat OpenShift on AWS, Amazon ECR) and Serverless services (AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS SAM, and more).
  • 🔹 Customer-Centric Approach – Partnering with key customers to drive adoption, solve business challenges, and enable modernization through Containers and Serverless.
  • 🔹 Cross-Functional Leadership – Collaborating with Solution Architecture, Sales, Marketing, and other teams to execute scalable programs that accelerate adoption.
  • 🔹 Data-Driven Insights – Bringing customer feedback and market signals to AWS service teams to influence roadmap priorities and ensure we build the right capabilities.
  • Passionate about empowering businesses to innovate faster, reduce operational complexity, and scale seamlessly with Cloud-Native, Containers, and Serverless technologies. Let’s connect and explore how AWS can support your modernization journey!
Go-to-Market StrategyContainersServerless TechnologiesCustomer-Centric ApproachCross-Functional LeadershipCloud Computing+1

Sr Partner Development Manager, Red Hat, EMEA

Promoted

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr

  • Partner Development Leader in EMEA working closely with Red Hat Sales Leadership and senior executives of SI Partners in the AWS ecosystem to help our customers with Red Hat Software workloads.
  • Primarily responsible for accelerating joint sales with the Red Hat field and SI partners in EMEA. Knowledgeable on Red Hat software including RHEL, OpenShift and ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS Service). Collaborating with customers, partners and internal audiences. Developing and executing annual strategic plans, building executive relationships, running monthly and quarterly pipeline reviews with Red Hat fields and key SI Partners and ensure that the Red Hat AWS partnership is proceeding to its respective goals in an effective timely fashion.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Joint Sales: Set the overall strategy, drive sales execution, pipeline review, coordination of leads from marketing activities.
  • SI Ecosystem Development: Develop a key set of SI partners globally that can help our customers to use Red Hat technology especially OpenShift on AWS. Develop a joint sales and GTM plan with these key SIs.
  • Progress monitoring: Tracking progress, including coordinating the definition and reporting of the KPIs, as well as leading periodic health checks.
  • Process management: Establishing and ensuring smooth operation of the collaboration ground rules, such as the protocol for formal governance meetings and procedures for decision-making, project team meetings, data exchange, and other kinds of interactions.
Partner DevelopmentSales ExecutionStrategic PartnershipsSales ManagementBusiness DevelopmentPartner Management

Sr Containers GTM Lead, ASEAN

Feb 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Driving the go-to market strategy of the AWS container services (Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes on AWS, AWS Fargate, AWS AppMesh, AWS Proton, RedHat Openshift on AWS, Amazon ECR) in ASEAN having previously been the first Container BDM in EMEA. Working with key customers on adoption, service teams on feature requests/improvements and sales teams on enablement and campaigns to help AWS customers modernize and release new features/products faster with help of the container and connecting services.
Go-to-Market StrategyCustomer AdoptionSales EnablementBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

EMEA Senior Business Development Manager, Container Services

Oct 2019Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Helping customers in EMEA to utilize AWS’ Container Services; Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, AWS Fargate, Amazon EKS and AWS App Mesh to help customers run cloud native applications in the most highly available, highly performant and cost effective way.
Container ServicesCloud-Native ApplicationsBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

EMEA Business Development Manager, Container Services

Oct 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Helping customers in EMEA to utilize AWS’ Container Services; Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, AWS Fargate, Amazon EKS and AWS App Mesh to help customers run cloud native applications in the most highly available, highly performant and cost effective way.
Container ServicesCloud-Native ApplicationsBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

Cloudbees

Field Account Executive - UK & Nordics

Nov 2015Oct 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Reading, United Kingdom

  • Worked with UK and Nordics customers to protect their investment in the use of Jenkins by adopting the CloudBees Jenkins Platform which makes your Jenkins instance more secure, scalable and manageable. Jenkins is becoming the hub of Continuous Delivery and CloudBees help customers on that journey.

Ca technologies

2 roles

EMEA Inside Sales Manager - DevOps/Application Delivery

Jun 2015Nov 2015 · 5 mos

  • Managing a team of pan-European Inside Sales professionals covering EMEA. Strong focus on generating pipeline through inbound and outbound activity. Coordination of sales campaigns aligned to marketing initiatives and separate pro-active prospecting in order to maximise pipeline volume and new sales opportunities.
  • Ongoing enablement and coaching of prospecting techniques including calling, e-mailing and use of social media.

Solution Account Manager - Continuous Delivery

Jun 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr

  • Enabling Continuous Delivery and DevOps for customers every day.
  • In the application economy, speed, innovation and quality have become table stakes. If you can’t meet your customers’ expectations, they will surely find a competitor who can. Whether your organization is in one of the sectors facing the most intense digital competition—insurance, banking, telecommunications or retail—or in a more traditional industry, how rapidly and successfully you embrace a software-driven digital transformation strategy will likely have a profound effect on your organization’s long term viability. Within this transformation sphere, the development of “omnichannel” or “digitally-connected multi-channel” capabilities is a key priority. CA Technologies can help you deliver a consistent, integrated and quality customer experience, regardless of how your customers choose to interact with you.

Keynote systems

UK and Nordics Account Manager

May 2013Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Reading, England, United Kingdom

  • As an account manager for the UK and Nordics I cover UK, Israel, South Africa + Scandinavia for new business and growth business within existing accounts. I cover the entire portfolio from Keynote’s performance and availability monitoring to DeviceAnywhere which is the mobile handset testing portion of the business.

Electric cloud

Territory Development Representative Team Leader - EMEA

Aug 2009Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Lead Generation and appointment setting in large enterprise accounts. Key achievements:
  • 2010 Inside Sales person of the year
  • Singlehandedly covering the EMEA region for 18 months - developing the territory
  • Tutoring/Mentoring/Training other TDR for EMEA

Hewlett-packard

Commercial Account Manager, Norway

Mar 2009Aug 2009 · 5 mos

  • Temporary
  • Mid-market account manager for customers in Norway. Responsible for selling HP Software, particularly within the BTO Portfolio.

Symantec

Inside Sales for Sweden

Jul 2007Feb 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • I was a Partner Support Rep from July 2007 until March 2008 working with our re-sellers in Sweden Norway and Denmark but was then promoted to Inside Sales Territory Account Rep for Symantec. Covering the south of Sweden, being responsible for all mid-market customers in the area. This includes license sales from all enterprise products in Symantecs portfolio as well as Altiris products.

Rsa security the security division of emc

Inside Sales for Sweden and Denmark

Feb 2007Jun 2007 · 4 mos

  • Inside Sales responsible for Sweden and Denmark. Bringing in all renewal business reached over 100% in both quarters whilst at RSA.

Convergence marketing

Telemarketer

Aug 2006Feb 2007 · 6 mos

  • Telemarketing, Cold calling, seminar attending, list building, booking meetings for sales reps. etc.
  • Good success rate.

Education

Bracknell and Wokingham College

n/a — National Diploma in Uniformed Public Services

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Easthampstead Park

Jan 2000Jan 2003

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