Kieran Kenny

Business Development Executive

Manchester, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

219% of ramp quota at ThoughtSpot.
Global #1 Commercial Account Executive at ThoughtSpot.
Founded Zelus and generated €240K in 14 months.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales expert with a strong focus on enterprise solutions.

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Social Media MarketingSocial NetworkingBloggingFacebookOnline AdvertisingSocial MediaOnline MarketingGoogle AnalyticsPPCWeb AnalyticsGoogle AdwordsContent StrategyCustomer ServiceSales

About

Account Exec with a huge passion for learning and solving customer problems. Specifically interested in challenger technologies and building out new regions within exciting companies. - golf & coffee nerd, don’t ask about either, unless you’ve got plenty of time.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 mos

Current Experience

Chainguard

Enterprise Account Executive

Mar 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Building out Chainguard in EMEA.

Thoughtspot

3 roles

Enterprise Account Executive

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 · 6 mos

FY26 H1: 219% of ramp quota.

Senior Commercial Account Executive

Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · 11 mos

FY25: 107% of quota.
EMEA #1 Commercial Account Executive.
President’s Club

Commercial Account Executive

Aug 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

FY24: 197% of quota.
Global #1 Commercial Account Executive.
Largest ever commercial deal (Net new land, ACV & TCV)
President’s Club
FY23: Global #2 AE sourced meetings booked.
Heavily regulated in MEDDPIC.
Working closely with partners such as Google, AWS, Snowflake & Databricks.

Starburst

3 roles

Senior Cloud Account Executive

Promoted

May 2022 – Jul 2022 · 2 mos

FY23: H1 225% to quota.
#1 Global Cloud Account Executive.
Regulated in Command of The Message & MEDDPICC.
Force Management CoM training at SKO.

Cloud Account Executive

Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 · 5 mos

One of the founding members of our Cloud Account Executive team building our Global GTM strategy for our new SaaS offering, Galaxy. Focused heavily on product led growth.
Working under Javi Molina and Dan Reyna, learning the playbook.

Senior Sales Development Representative

Jan 2021 – Nov 2021 · 10 mos

Joined at Series B, sub 200 employees.
The first SDR in EMEA alongside the founding team helping to target new logo's.
FY22: 219% of quota.
Global #1 SDR.
President's Club.

Zelus recruitment

Director & Headhunter

Jun 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

I founded Zelus aged 22 as my first business, I thoroughly enjoyed my time and lessons learned.
Generated €240K from scratch in 14 months. Exited into SaaS via my network I built.

Insight it & engineering recruitment

Head of Data & Analytics

Mar 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

I set up the data practice at Insight challenged with bringing on net new clients in the growing data space.
June 2018 - set the company billing record for new contract business.
FY18 - Achievers club (Ibiza trip)

Springbok properties

Assistant Sales Manager

May 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Manchester, England, United Kingdom

This was a hybrid role between working as an SDR appointment setting for Regional Valuers, working as a Regional Valuer around the country from Inverness to Brighton attending appointments set by SDR's as well as running a team of four SDR's.
FY16 - Number 1 SDR.
FY17 - Number 1 SDR.
Number 1 SDR 17 out of 24 months out of around 18 SDR's.
Company sales record 40% higher than it had previously ever been.
One of only two SDR's in the company history to set 50 appointments in a month back to back.

Macclesfield football club

Academy Player

Jun 2010 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs · Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom

Academy player at Macclesfield Town from the age of 13-16. Like many growing up I thought I’d go on to be a footballer. But like many had to get a real career!