Matthew Burns

CEO

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States26 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Award-winning sales leader with over 20 years of experience.
  • Proven ability to manage complex marketing and product plans.
  • Strong track record in talent development and retention.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS sales leader with extensive experience in enterprise software and strategic account management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software LicensingStrategic AccountsSoftware SalesMarket AnalysisAccount ManagementSales ManagementTeam LeadershipSales LeadershipTeam ManagementDirect SalesConsulting ServicesSales StrategyClient Engagement

Other Skills

Account ExecutivesBusiness AlliancesBusiness AnalyticsBusiness ContinuityBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Service ManagementChannel PartnersChannel SalesCloud ComputingCoachingCommunicationComplex SalesConsultative SellingContractual

About

◼Award winning sales leader: Over 20 years’ experience in strategy and sales with strong market and product development skills. Skilled at delivering consistent results with the technology sector. Specific strengths in identifying profitable/high-growth market segments and developing new business. Proven ability to manage complex marketing/product plans within an ever-changing environment. ◼High-performance leader & trusted advisor: Effective leader who develops and motivates multi-cultural teams. Skilled at enhancing productivity by deploying systems and processes that enable people to focus on high-value activities. Excellent talent development and retention track record. ◼Reliable and disciplined execution: Strong planning and even better delivering. Extremely skilled at working through people and managing the implementation of projects, on-time and within budget. Hands-on leadership style with a relentless focus on delivering high-impact projects while maintaining an environment of collaboration and teamwork.

Experience

26 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Exagrid

Area Vice President Southeast

Aug 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hybrid

Software LicensingWritten CommunicationRelationship BuildingVeeam Backup & ReplicationQuotasCommunication+2

Veeam software

Regional Sales Director East

Aug 2020Aug 2023 · 3 yrs · Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Market AnalysisSoftware LicensingWritten CommunicationRelationship BuildingVeeam Backup & ReplicationSoftware Sales+8

Rubrik, inc.

Regional Sales Leader

Oct 2019Aug 2020 · 10 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

Account ExecutivesWritten CommunicationRelationship BuildingSoftware SalesTechnology SolutionsQuotas+8

Robin.io

Regional Sales Director

Jan 2019Oct 2019 · 9 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Lead sales management and demand generation activities for leading tech company powering the data infrastructure of industry-leading businesses with SaaS, On-Premise, Hybrid Cloud, and Multi-Cloud solutions. Accountable for hiring and onboarding Account Executives, establishing quota’s and territory assignments, and collaborating with Field Marketing to schedule events. Establish weekly sales cadence, quarterly business reviews, and monthly training sessions.
  • ◼Collaborated with the CRO to create forecasting and consultative sales methodologies and best practices
  • ◼Worked with Marketing to improve brand messaging, corporate overview, and outcome-based reference material to focus on solutions by providing proof points to add credibility and drive value proposition
Account ExecutivesSoftware LicensingWritten CommunicationRelationship BuildingGSISoftware Sales+10

Zerto

2 roles

Regional Sales Leader

Promoted

Jan 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Led team of 6 Sales Executives across the Southeast territory with responsibility for delivering SaaS solutions and meeting perpetual sales targets. Delivered application portability and high availability of critical applications for our customer base while creating solid base of referenceable customers that delivered testimonials. Collaborated with Marketing to deliver schedule of trade shows and webinars. Created cold-calling campaigns with partners and inside sales teams.
  • ◼Delivered 155% of goal in the first half of 2018, receiving award for #1 Global Team with Top 2 Reps coming from the SE team; 5 out of 9 Reps hit 100% of first half attainment
  • ◼Finished 2017 as # 1 team globally, 5 out of 8 reps made 100%
  • ◼Built out Southeast team by hiring and on-boarding 6 new reps; earned # 1 team in the East 2016
  • ◼Assumed management of Latin America in 2016 and grew business by 350%
  • ◼Designed and delivered enablement sessions for CoM at sales kick off
  • ◼Implemented CoM sales methodology and MEDDPIC sales qualification, which has been adopted globally
  • ◼A member of advisory team for deal desk, SKO content and major contributor to new hire training sessions
  • ◼Reached 300% of goal, closing the largest deal of $2.4M in company history, as Account Manager
Account ExecutivesMarket AnalysisSoftware LicensingWritten CommunicationRelationship BuildingGSI+12

Enterprise Account Executive

Apr 2015Dec 2015 · 8 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

Account ExecutivesWritten CommunicationDirect SalesRelationship BuildingGSISoftware Sales+9

Acorio

Regional Sales Manager

Jan 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

  • Led a team of 4 account executives to deliver consulting services and Intellectual Property for ServiceNow customers. Responsible for driving SaaS and consulting services for the East Coast Region.
  • ◼Managed and hired 4 reps covering East Coast and Canada, achieving 135% of goal 2015
  • ◼Closed 12 net new opportunities with revenue values ranging from $50K to $650K
  • ◼2014 Player Coach, Closed 4 out of the 5 top deals in company history
  • ◼Ran inside sales team of three ISR’s and created process for lead generation increasing hit rate by 40%
  • ◼Created Sales process leveraging Command of the Message resulting in cutting sales cycles in half by getting Executive sponsorship top down
Direct SalesSoftware SalesTechnology SolutionsStrategic AccountsSales ManagementConsulting Services

Bmc software

Application Management DevOps Sales Leader

Jul 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Southeast

  • Drove revenue within BMC’s DevOps and APM portfolio for Southeast, TOLA and West Coast. Collaborated with Product Management and Marketing to create first call presentation deck. Focused efforts on Fortune 500 clients in the financial, insurance, and healthcare vertical markets. Built sales plays that incorporated other parts of the BMC software portfolio to maximize revenue recognition.
  • ◼Finished 76% of quota for pro-rated 2011
  • ◼155% of quota for fiscal year ending 2013
  • ◼Achieved 115% attainment, 40% was new business in 2012
  • ◼Positioned Service Management Software, Application Performance Management and DevOps solutions to Fortune 500 Companies; portfolio included Release Management, Middleware automation and Application Performance Management
Direct SalesGSISoftware SalesTechnology SolutionsEnterprise Software SalesStrategic Accounts+2

Ibm

Client Software Leader

Jul 2005Jul 2011 · 6 yrs · CT/GA

  • Collaborated with CIO’s, Application Owners, and Line of business executives to fully understand business initiatives and underlying IT projects to deliver sales on all 5 brands of Software. Led 15 sales specialists within Webshere, Tivoli, Rational, Information Management and Analytics. Drove and negotiated complex cross brand deals that delivered business outcomes for stakeholders.
  • ◼Achieved quota of $9,000,000 in 2010, a 39% year over year growth
  • ◼Closed predictive analytics and business intelligence deal for MCOM 2.4 million win over Oracle
  • ◼Worked with C-Level Executives to roll out Omni-Channel initiative leveraging cross brand IBM software
  • ◼Managed five brands of software for balanced performance calling online of business and IT executives
GSISoftware SalesTechnology SolutionsEnterprise Software SalesStrategic AccountsSales Management+1

Dell emc

Senior Enterprise Account Manager

Aug 1998Jun 2005 · 6 yrs 10 mos · CT

Direct SalesSoftware SalesTechnology SolutionsEnterprise Software SalesSales ManagementAccount Management

Education

Bryant University

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