Jon Hodgson

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom17 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Achieved record new logo acquisitions in EMEA.
  • Promoted multiple team members to leadership roles.
  • Consistently ranked top sales rep across multiple companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with extensive experience in enterprise client acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic It SalesLeadershipNew Business GenerationSales ProcessEnterprise SalesCommercial NegotiationNew Business DevelopmentAccount ManagementSalesNegotiationClient ManagementClient Acquisition

Other Skills

Sales Force DevelopmentGlobal Account ManagementSales EnablementComplex SalesTeam LeadershipGreen ITSaaSProfessional ServicesGo-to-market StrategyStrategic PartnershipsMobile DevicesInfrastructure

About

"If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up."

Experience

Harness

Regional Vice President - UK/I & ZA

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Leading and developing a truly elite team as part of Harness’ continual global expansion.
  • #1 new business team in EMEA FY25 and FY26
  • largest new logo land in EMEA history
  • #1 RVP EMEA FY25 and FY26
  • Presidents Club Winner FY25 and FY26
  • 3 reps promoted FY26
  • Reporting into a leadership team of Carlos Delatorre, Sam Costello, Adam Quartermaine and Colin Doyle.
  • Harness - AI for everything after code.
Strategic IT SalesNew Business GenerationSales Force DevelopmentLeadership

Lacework

3 roles

Area Director & Regional Lead - Northern EMEA

Sep 2023Jan 2024 · 4 mos

  • Expansion of role to include wider leadership responsibilities for Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Reporting to VP International Sales, Colin Doyle, we continued to transform the region into the top performing region in the company across all key metrics.
  • 106% annual number 23/24
Enterprise SalesCommercial NegotiationGlobal Account Management

Area Director - Northern Europe

Promoted

Jul 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Promoted to lead the Northern Europe Enterprise team:
  • 120% annual number 2022/23
  • President’s Club Winner 2023
  • Landed first major FinServ clients for Lacework
  • Leading team globally for signing Global 2k customers
Enterprise SalesNew Business DevelopmentSales Enablement

Regional Sales Manager - EMEA

Mar 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Largest new logo land in EMEA (broke the record twice in same FY)
  • Largest customer expansion deal in EMEA
  • 286% annual number and promoted into Leadership
  • Lacework brings automation, speed, and scale to cloud security.
  • Record $1.3B funding round announced in Nov 2021
  • Record $525m funding round announced Jan 2021
SalesNegotiationComplex Sales

Cloudbees

Enterprise Account Director

Apr 2018Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • #1 Global Rep 2019
  • Largest Deal in Company History
  • #1 Rep EMEA 2019 & 2020
  • #1 Account Team Globally 2019
  • Specialist focus on FinServ clients incl. JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Nationwide and Swedbank. Reporting into a leadership team of Anthony Palladino, Herve Timsit and Gautam Rishi.
  • CloudBees is the hub of Enterprise Jenkins® and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for automating software development and delivery.
Enterprise SalesSales ProcessClient Management

Akamai technologies

2 roles

Enterprise Sales

May 2017Apr 2018 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Asked by the UK management team to return to Akamai to help reignite the new business process in the UK. Successfully introduced a new sales playbook for signing new customers from Financial Services, Insurance, FinTech and Business Services with the net outcome being the most new logos signed across the business in FY17.
SalesNew Business DevelopmentClient Acquisition

MAE - UK Enterprise

Oct 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · London

  • Top Sales Rep across EMEA 2015 with 290% annual target achieved (all from new logo accounts).
  • Responsible for enterprise customers in the United Kingdom.
  • Akamai is the leading provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere.
SalesClient ManagementNew Business Development

Neumob (acquired by cloudflare)

EMEA Sales Director

Dec 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · London

  • Joined as part of the founding sales team and helped establish the business in EMEA. Backed by funding from Accel Partners, Neumob was acquired by Cloudflare in 2017.
  • Neumob's revolutionary mobile app acceleration technology allows global businesses to serve their mobile apps faster, more reliably and more securely to any targeted mobile audience, irrespective of device, location or connection.
SalesClient ManagementTeam Leadership

Cdnetworks

Account Director - EMEA

May 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Responsible for new Enterprise customers in the UK and across EMEA.
  • 120% annual number 2014 before leaving after being approached to join the global market leader, Akamai.
  • 160% annual number 2013
  • CDNetworks enables mission critical e-business in the world's most challenging markets and is a trusted technology and business advisor to more than 1,700 global companies.
  • Founded in 2000, CDNetworks has offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and China.
SalesClient ManagementNew Business Development

1e

Director - Strategic Accounts

Jan 2009May 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Responsible for new software and professional services revenues from enterprise customers in the United Kingdom, Nordics, South Africa and Asia-Pacific.
  • 1E is the pioneer and global leader in Efficient IT solutions. 1E’s mission is to identify unused IT, help remove it and optimize everything else. 1E Efficient IT solutions help reduce servers, network bandwidth constraints, software licenses and energy consumption.
SalesClient ManagementNew Business Development

Education

Alliance Manchester Business School

Management (BSc. Honours)

Jan 2003Jan 2007

The University of Manchester

Management (BSc.Honours)

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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