Emilia Meldrum-Taylor

CEO

Chicago, Illinois, United States20 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in revenue generation and management.
Expert in leading global sales and revenue teams.
Strong background in SaaS and enterprise software solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS revenue executive with extensive experience in enterprise software sales and strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Revenue GenerationCro ManagementBusiness AnalysisAccount ManagementSolution Selling

Other Skills

Revenue ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Software as a Service (SaaS)Start-upsEnterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaSCloud ComputingBusiness IntelligenceConsultative SellingMarketing StrategySoftware IndustrySales ProcessesEntrepreneurship

About

My experience is in helping enterprises attain their strategic objectives by applying innovative and disruptive technologies to drive meaningful business outcomes. My focus is on leveraging industry knowledge, financial models, and business acumen to support transformational technology investments for my customers, while building high-performing teams internally. My passion is ensuring both my customers and my team meet their immediate targets and exceed their long-term objectives.

Experience

Certa.ai

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

Leading the global go-to-market organization, including Sales, Rev Ops, Partnerships, and Customer Success, with a focus on scaling growth while building the company’s position as the category leader in Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM).
Certa’s mission is bold - Transform Risk & Compliance from a back-office necessity into a strategic growth driver. For global enterprises, this means:
Protecting brand reputation and shareholder value through trusted, resilient supply chains.
Unifying risk and compliance data into a single source of truth across the enterprise.
Accelerating onboarding and partnerships without compromising governance.
Turning trust into a competitive advantage by enabling safer, faster, and more confident growth.

Revenue GenerationRevenue ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Software as a Service (SaaS)CRO Management

Quantive

2 roles

Chief Revenue Officer

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leading Quantive’s global revenue and alliance teams.

Start-upsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Enterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisBusiness AnalysisCustomer Service+15

EVP of Revenue and Alliances, Americas

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leading revenue and alliances operations for the Americas.
Quantive connects organization’s data and people to a shared mission.
We do it by providing a platform in which executives, teams and individuals can plan, activate and measure overarching objectives and business KPIs to bridge the gap between company’s strategy and execution.
Have over 2000 customers across the globe and multitude of industries.

Start-upsEnterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisBusiness AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaS+13

Smartsheet

4 roles

Regional Vice President, Key Accounts

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos

Enterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisBusiness AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaSRevenue Generation+10

Regional Vice President, Strategic Accounts

Sep 2020 – Feb 2021 · 5 mos

Enterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisBusiness AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaSRevenue Generation+9

Director, Strategic Accounts

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Enterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisBusiness AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaSRevenue Generation+9

Global Strategic Account Executive

Jan 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Smartsheet is more than a leading work execution platform. It’s an engine of human achievement. By aligning people with technology, Smartsheet empowers businesses of all sizes to move faster, drive innovation, and achieve more.
Over 83,000 brands, and millions of information workers, trust Smartsheet to help them accelerate business execution and address the volume and velocity of today’s dynamic work.
According to Forrester, over 90% of our customers say that Smartsheet is easy to deploy and use, and 96% of them would recommend Smartsheet to a colleague.
Named to the Forbes “Cloud 100” list of the best private companies in cloud computing, and by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor”, Smartsheet is used by over 50% of the Fortune 500 and maintains rich data integrations with mission-critical applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and many others.
Whether it is opening hundreds of stores around the world, building skyscrapers, launching rockets into space, or managing behind-the-scenes logistics for the Super Bowl, Smartsheet enables organizations to centrally manage and automate complex, enterprise-scale projects and processes. Other customers include Netflix, NBC Universal, Sony Music, Hilton and Cisco.

Enterprise SoftwareFinancial AnalysisCustomer ServiceSaaSRevenue GenerationSolution Selling+7

Sprinklr

Regional Sales Manager

Dec 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Chicago Area

Helping the world's largest brands deliver a 1:1 social experience @scale!
Rated by Forrester Research as "the most powerful technology in the market," Sprinklr provides a comprehensive social-infrastructure platform, and related strategic services, that empower large organizations to harness the voice of the customer and drive business goals across internal silos.
Leveraged by over 1300+ global brands such as Nike, Intel, Dell, Cisco Systems, Virgin America, DuPont, IHG, Hearst, and Samsung.
~1100 employees, 10 global offices and headquartered in New York.

Start-upsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSolution SellingBusiness IntelligenceConsultative Selling+4

Kenandy, inc.

Sr. Account Executive

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chicago, IL

Supported large enterprise companies in devising flexible and quick-to-implement alternatives to traditional ERP deployments by leveraging Kenandy on the Salesforce technology platform.

Start-upsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSolution SellingBusiness IntelligenceConsultative Selling+5