Matt Banks

Business Development Executive

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

SDR Top Voice 2025
Expert in cold calling techniques
Passionate about Guinness and pubs

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with a focus on outbound sales strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentSales

Other Skills

Social SellingContent CreationCold CallingOutbound SalesCoachingResiliencyGuinness ReviewingPub Reviewing

About

Guinness. Pubs. Sales. I make content about life as an SDR who accidentally fell into SaaS, found the comedy in cold calling, and now spends most weekends hunting for the best pint of Guinness. I currently lead and build the SDR team at Salesfinity, helping reps book more meetings over the phone without burning themselves or your ICP out. Expect: • Cold calling takes (the honest ones) • Sales lessons learned the hard way • Pints, pubs, and questionable work locations Follow for unprofessional sales advice and very professional results. Drop me a message if you want to buy something… or argue about Guinness. SDR Top Voice 2025 🍻 Loves a pint of Guinness Still plays RuneScape I’ve called from 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇹🇨🇿

Experience

Sdr leaders of usa

Member

Mar 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Salesfinity

3 roles

SDR Manager

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Those that cannot do, teach.

Senior SDR

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 · 5 mos

Full Cycle SDRing
Dabbled in closing and training as an AE: didn’t enjoy it.
Started leading the SDR team: loved it

Sales Development Representative

Dec 2024 – Aug 2025 · 8 mos

If you’ve gotten this far and you’re interested in the product drop me a message and I’ll cold call you.
We help sales teams have more and better calls over the phone.
Whether that’s increasing call volume or making sure you’re targeting the right people with the right information, Salesfinity helps optimise every rep making dials however they need to.
The only thing they should be focusing on is having conversations, so if you’re not doing everything to make that their number 1 priority, buy us.

Business DevelopmentSalesSocial SellingContent CreationCold CallingOutbound Sales+2

Sdr leaders of emea

Member

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Pints and prospects

Cold Calling from Pubs

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

Gave up on being a corporate robot and decided to start posting pints of Guinness on my LinkedIn while freelancing and making content on here.
Now I’ve started people seem to like it and I can’t go back.

Business DevelopmentSalesSocial SellingGuinness ReviewingContent CreationCold Calling+4

Diageo

Unofficial Brand Ambassador

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Drinking and spreading the word about amazing, creamy pints

Corporate sales

2 roles

Business Development Manager

Jun 2024 – Oct 2024 · 4 mos · On-site

First job in sales, 90% cold calling and 10% sending emails that got ignored.
Started really well.
Got dumped and became really shit.
Got a lot better and started getting more confident on LinkedIn and over the phones.
After 3 months of saying I was going to quit, after a few pints on a Tuesday lunch I did.
(Went back to said pub afterwards to celebrate)

Business DevelopmentSalesCold CallingOutbound SalesResiliency

Business Development Executive

Sep 2023 – Jun 2024 · 9 mos · On-site

Doing the same thing as a BDM, just a little more shit

Business DevelopmentSalesCold CallingOutbound SalesResiliency

Casual dining, silver service, burger flipping and shaking cocktails.

The Chaos and Joy of Hospitality.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2023 · 10 yrs 2 mos · The South · On-site

Some of the best and worst years of my life.
Went from serving chips in a zoo to managing a variety of restaurants and bars around the UK.
Here the love for Guinness was developed.