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Sami Essayem

CEO

Tampa, Florida, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in closing multimillion-dollar deals.
  • Expert in building long-term relationships with C-level executives.
  • Innovative dealmaker with a focus on win-win partnerships.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sales Leader in the Life Sciences SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales ManagementStrategic Account ManagementBusiness Development

Other Skills

SaaSHealthcareAnalyticsData-driven solutionsHealthtechReal-world dataData ScienceHealthcare MapCloud-based platformLife SciencesIndustry expertiseApplicationsSerializationTrack & TraceDigital Information Sharing

About

Experienced and goal-oriented sales leader with a track record of consistently meeting and exceeding established goals and objectives. Empathetic strategic sales executive skilled in building and leading high preforming sales teams. Expert in building long-term and trusted relationships with C-level executives across a variety of market verticals but with deep Life Sciences subject matter expertise. Motivated and ambitious with excellent interpersonal communication, relationship management, and technical presentation skills. Quintessential innovative dealmaker and challenger-minded business professional who always goes above and beyond the call of duty with a relentless dedication to build win-win propositions with partners and customers. STRENGTHS: • Established C-level portfolio. • Experienced in closing enterprise multimillion-dollar deals. • Proficient in software (Cloud and On-Premise), outsourcing, cold-chain logistics, life science technical sales, distribution, capital equipment and services sales. • Quick study, with an ability to easily grasp and put into application new ideas, concepts, methods and technologies. • Dedicated, innovative and self-motivated team player/builder. • Strong ability to work with cross‐functional teams and build consensus. • Exceptional organizational, oral/written communication, interpersonal, analytical, and problem resolution skills. • Thrive in both independent and collaborative work environments. • Consultative / solutions selling skills with customer education / post sales support. I have enjoyed working with an array of clients across several verticals for the past two decades in helping them identify some of the challenges in their workflows and solving those bottlenecks with a tailored solutions that leads to a win-win long term partnership. Specialties: Enterprise Software (Cloud and On-Premise), Business Development, Deal Making, Contract Negotiation, Outsourcing, Strategic account management, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Biotech and Pharma.

Experience

22 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Inovalon

VP of Sales - Insights

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Tampa, Florida, United States · Hybrid

  • Inovalon empowers customers to improve clinical outcomes and economics across healthcare. We do this with data-driven, cloud-based SaaS solutions powered by the most broadly used cloud platform in U.S. healthcare, the Inovalon ONE® Platform.
  • This platform brings together national-scale connectivity, the largest primary source dataset in the nation, decades of healthcare and technology experience, and advanced analytics to help customers inform, accelerate, and improve patient care and healthcare economics.
  • Our analytics and capabilities are used by over 50,000 active, licensed customers, and are informed by the primary source data of more than 92 billion medical events across 1.1 million physicians, 706,000 clinical settings, and 416 million unique lives.
  • We work with:
  • 15 of the top 15 U.S. health plans
  • All top 25 U.S. healthcare provider systems
  • 8 of the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies
  • 3 of the top 10 specialty pharmacy companies
  • From payers and providers to pharmacy organizations and life sciences companies, anyone in healthcare can benefit from the powerful capabilities of the Inovalon ONE Platform.
SaaSHealthcareAnalyticsData-driven solutionsSales ManagementStrategic Account Management

Purplelab

Vice President of Sales

Jan 2023Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

  • PurpleLab is a healthtech company focused on driving decisive action based on precise insights from real-world data. The company’s sophisticated HIPAA-compliant analytics platform, proven domain expertise and wealth of transactional and novel RWD, empowers healthcare stakeholders with the real-world evidence they need to solve conventional, new, and emerging challenges. With PurpleLab clients can derive value faster, more cost effectively, and with significantly greater confidence.
  • Our highly experienced experts conform billions of raw claims and clinical healthcare transactions using our proprietary platform, HealthNexus™. We semantically harmonize critical events and relationships between data types at scale, making them analytics-ready. With integrated insights on de-identified patients, providers and payers clients receive ongoing objective, quantitative, predictive, and ad hoc real-world evidence to meet their business objectives. These include diagnosis, medications, procedures, measurements, observations and indications. PurpleLab continues to grow its data warehouse with trusted data partners across the healthcare ecosystem.
HealthtechAnalyticsReal-world dataBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

Komodo health

Group Executive Vice President of Sales

Jan 2022Jan 2023 · 1 yr

  • Komodo Health believes that smarter, more innovative use of data and analytics is essential for reducing the burden of disease. We apply advanced data science techniques to our first-of-its-kind Healthcare Map™, which leverages the patient journeys of more than 330 million de-identified individuals. Using our cloud-based platform and application suite, we empower a multitude of healthcare stakeholders – life science companies, healthcare payers, clinicians, patient advocacy groups, and others – to create a more cost-effective, value-driven healthcare system.
Data ScienceHealthcare MapCloud-based platformSales ManagementBusiness Development

Mavens - a komodo health company

Vice President of Enterprise Sales

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr

  • Mavens partners with life science leaders in biotech, specialty pharma and rare disease organizations to drive better outcomes for their businesses by providing industry-specific expertise and applications.
  • We’re problem solvers, industry specialists, and committed partners who can help you bring your product to market—and get it in front of the people who need it.
Life SciencesIndustry expertiseApplicationsSales ManagementBusiness Development

Tracelink

Senior Account Executive

Jan 2018Jan 2021 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • TraceLink is the global leader in Serialization, Track & Trace, and Digital Information Sharing solutions for the Life Sciences industry.
  • TraceLink is fully dedicated to protecting patients and ensuring the safe and efficient supply of prescription medicines throughout the world. Our Life Sciences Cloud is the world's largest pharmaceutical track and trace network, purpose-built for serialization and track & trace. Our SaaS platform helps all life science trading partners manage their responsibilities and comply with regulatory obligations to eradicate counterfeit drugs from the supply chain.
  • TraceLink is dedicated to protecting patients and enabling the safe distribution of medicine globally. We do this through helping life science companies achieve compliance with global serialisation and traceability requirements; including, EU FMD requirements in Europe, and Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requirements in the US. We believe that through building the life science industry's only digital supply chain network we are helping to transform the future of medicine. The TraceLink Network enables real-time information sharing between all global life science companies, which will ultimately and most importantly enable better patient outcomes.
  • TraceLink is an extremely exciting company to work for, and we're actively hiring across all departments. Please message me if you're interested in learning more!
SerializationTrack & TraceDigital Information SharingSales ManagementBusiness Development

Litera microsystems

Senior Account Executive - Life Sciences

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • At Litera Microsystems our mission is simple: helping Life Sciences organizations accelerate their document review and be first-in-patient and first-to-market. DocXtools for Life Sciences is an enterprise software that speeds up the creation, review, and formatting of your electronic common technical documents (eCTDs).
Document reviewEnterprise softwareLife SciencesSales ManagementBusiness Development

Pilgrim quality solutions

Senior Account Executive

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Pilgrim Quality Solutions is a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management software solutions for highly regulated industries. Pilgrim has pioneered effective, integrated software solutions for the Life Science industries, as well as manufacturers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, and other non-FDA regulated industries.
  • Closed two new logos on multi-year Cloud deals on the same day within the first six months. TCV worth over $1.2 Million.
  • Responsible for all sales activities in the Western US and Canada with a sales quota of $3.6 Million in Software and Services.
Enterprise RiskComplianceQuality ManagementSales ManagementBusiness Development

Eag laboratories

Senior Business Development Manager

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • EAG Laboratories (formerly known as ABC Laboratories) is a drug development CRO offering a broad array of development services—from IND-enabling programs to the full range of CMC analytical support with expert consulting services, professional program management, performance metrics and transparency.
  • Responsible for all Sales and Business Development in Western US and Canada and managing sales revenue over $9.6 Million – Closed Q4-2015 at 350% and FY2015 191%.
Drug developmentCROSales and Business DevelopmentSales ManagementBusiness Development

A&e innotech

Founder and Principal

Jan 2014Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Istanbul, Turkey

  • A&E Innotech is a boutique consulting firm focussed on business development and general management for international companies interested in penetrating the Turkish and MENA markets and seeking distribution partners.
  • Executed four distribution contracts in the region for companies from the US and EU.
  • Involved in enduring engagements that identify potential, connect synergistic players, create value and transform opportunity into sustainable enterprise.
  • Responsible for market analysis, strategy and deal making.
  • The company specialized in innovative technologies in different market verticals, specifically from Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Cold Chain Logistics and Hi-Tech.
Business developmentMarket analysisDeal makingBusiness DevelopmentSales Management

Cryoport

Director of Sales

Jan 2012Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Cryoport is a global cold chain logistics company offering a unique combination of products and services to the life science and healthcare industries. The operational model and proprietary shipping vessel offer turn-key logistics processes and a green, safe, and ultra-reliable alternative to traditional methods for packaging and transporting deep frozen biomaterials.
  • Director of Sales for Western US and Canada - Grew territory by 186% in first six months and added over 40 new clients in the first year.
  • Top sales performer, most new accounts closed and highest shipment per month growth in 2013 and 2014.
  • Insured the company met aggressive growth targets and was key member in helping the company achieve nine straight quarters of double-digit growth (92% growth in first quarter of FY2014).
  • Championed the creation of several different market verticals for rapid sales growth and brand recognition (blood banks and regenerative medicine).
  • Multi facet role that includes marketing, business development and identifying strategic co-partnerships that yield the best ROI to continue exponential growth.
Cold chain logisticsLife sciencesSales growthSales ManagementBusiness Development

Milliporesigma

Life Science Specialist

Jan 2010Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Key account manager for strategic Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies, including Roche/Genentech, Novartis, Amgen, Gilead, Pfizer, Takeda, AZ/MedImmune and BMS.
  • Closed 2010 at 108% to plan YTD and 2011 at 106% to plan with an organic growth of 14% over prior year. Q1 of 2012 closed at 168% to plan.
  • Champion and drive customer awareness of Sigma's Life Science Business Unit and its Best-in-Class/Innovative technologies and products.
  • Team with Field Application Specialist to identify and diminish competitive barriers to increase sales and uncover opportunities for product improvement/development.
BiotechnologyPharmaceuticalsSalesSales ManagementBusiness Development

Lonza

Life Science Specialist

Jan 2007Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

  • Closed 2009 at 117% to plan YTD and finished 2008 at 102.5% to plan YTD.
  • Top-performing, customer service-focused sales professional dedicated to develop strong customer relationships.
  • In depth product knowledge in primary cell culture and isolation, cell-based assays, transfection technology and gene expression systems.
  • Perform technical seminars, presentations and demonstrations.
  • Work jointly with Distributors (Fisher and VWR) to strategically sell in prime accounts.
Cell cultureGene expressionSalesSales ManagementBusiness Development

Fisher scientific

Sales Representative

Jan 2005Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

  • Rookie of the Year for the California Region in 2006.
  • 1st in the company for overall sales back-to-back years (143% to plan, 115% growth) in California (out of 48 sales reps).
  • Improved territory from 26% to 154% to plan in 2006.
  • Exceptional success in territory expansion, 20% increase.
  • 55% Growth in sales and 40% Growth in gross profit in 2006.
  • Most New Accounts discovered in the region with 28 new companies.
SalesCustomer serviceAccount managementSales ManagementBusiness Development

Ucsf

Lab Manager

Jan 2002Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

  • Managed the largest laboratory at the School of Dentistry at UCSF with an annual budget of over 2.5 million dollars.
  • Exclusive negotiator for all contracts and purchase agreements.
  • Reported directly to Susan Fisher, director of the UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center.
  • In charge of ordering, care, maintenance, and utilization of laboratory equipment, supplies, and inventories (annual equipment and supply spending in excess of $1 million).
SalesAccount managementTerritory expansionSales ManagementBusiness Development

Education

San Francisco State University

MS — Biomedical Lab Science

San Francisco State University

BS — Microbiology

Université Grenoble Alpes

BS — Cell Biology and Physiology

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