Pi School

As an AI Innovation Partner, I act as the strategic bridge between forward-thinking organizations and Pi School’s world-class AI engineering and research team.

My role focuses on helping companies explore, define, and execute impactful AI innovation by:
	•	Advising organizations on how to identify and scope real-world challenges that can be solved through AI
	•	Guiding partners through our 8-week innovation programme — from ideation to fully functional AI prototypes
	•	Aligning internal stakeholders across product, engineering, and delivery to ensure business and technical goals are met
	•	Ensuring outcomes, not outputs — our AI solutions are built for business impact, not just code
	•	Managing strategic relationships with clients ranging from startups to global enterprises (Amazon, Meta, ESA, etc.)
	•	Shaping repeatable frameworks for rapid AI exploration, validation, and integration
	•	Supporting growth through referrals and long-term collaboration, not transactional deals

We don’t sell software. We co-design and deliver custom AI prototypes — fast, fixed-price, and with academic-grade quality — so companies can unlock innovation without the overhead or risk.

AI Innovation Ambassador

PORTFOLIO PLAY

Recruited to build the sales organization; initially focused on the lead generation business while other ventures were developed.

Built pipeline from scratch, achieving 5+ weekly meetings with decision-makers leveraging outbound.

Closed my first high-value end-to-end deal 6 weeks after joining.

Recognized by leadership as a “world-class” sales closer and praised by clients as the best salesperson in competitive deals—two attempted to recruit me.

Sales Director - EIR

ELTic Ltd

Revitalised sales for a new product, generating 12 active trials, 15 opportunities, and 4 paying customers within 3 months.

Conducted customer interviews to refine messaging and improve the product-market fit.

Launched content-driven initiatives, including a podcast and newsletter, to enhance lead generation and customer engagement securing 400 new followers.

Sales Director (Co-founder)

Rev-Engine

Fractional sales director helping tech founders turn around sales performance and transition away from founder-led sales.

Achieved triple-digit pipeline growth and sales activity through targeted outbound campaigns and structured sales processes.

Achieved up to 100% conversion increase and 60% sales cycle reduction through sales process, technology and methodology.

Closed several 6-digit deals while diagnosing issues and documenting playbooks.

Sales Director (Founder)

Brandwatch

First and only internal promotion into the Strategic Accounts Team.
Leading growth for Strategic Accounts (+2 Bn revenue) in EMEA.
Achieved 200% of sales quota, earning recognition as the top sales representative for two consecutive quarters.
Secured the company's 7th largest client.

Strategic Account Director

Sector Lead Technology, Telecommunications, Energy & Transportation

Senior Account Executive - Enterprise Sales

Gartner

Enhancing the visibility of emerging technology vendors. Providing Strategic Advisory Services for all go-to-market key initiatives. 

Achieved 168% quota attainment within 6 months, unofficially qualifying for Winner’s Circle (top 20%).

Account Executive - Emerging tech providers

Kimberly-Clark Professional

Enhancing field sales effectiveness through the co-management of key accounts. Elevating sales activity, implementing up-selling strategies, utilizing business intelligence tools for white space analysis and designing and executing telephone and email campaigns for up-selling.

● Achieved the first and only internal promotion in a team of over 70 customer service agents.
● Maintained top sales contributor status even three months after leaving the company.

Internal Sales Professional

Kimberly-Clark

My responsibilities included recording product feedback, handling customer reimbursements, and supporting marketing in promotional activities.

Recognized as "Temp of the Month." After four months, I secured a permanent position.

Consumer services representative

Tech Sales Professional | Sales Strategist | Ex-Gartner & Former Entrepreneur

After 10+ years in tech sales — including Gartner, top software companies, and several startups (some of which I founded) — I saw how hard it is for companies to innovate through technology. Too often, they spend huge time and budget chasing ideas that don’t work, especially in AI.

That’s why I joined Pi School - We Build Custom AI Prototypes in 8 Weeks 

We’re not a software development agency. We’re a team of academics, engineers, and AI researchers trained at Cambridge, École Centrale, and top institutions.

We’ve delivered 100+ AI prototypes for companies like Cisco, Enel, European Space Agency — and won multi-million euro EU tenders to solve major public and private sector challenges through AI.

We Offer:
-A working, custom AI prototype — delivered in just 8 weeks
-No legacy code. No scope creep. No “hourly billing” traps
-Fixed price, fast delivery, and zero need for an internal tech team
-Backed by top-tier experts, not outsourced freelancers
-Built for business outcomes — not code for code’s sake

We combine research-grade AI with real-world execution — helping you:
-Unlock AI-powered innovation
-Improve efficiency, decisions & operations
-Get buy-in from leadership with tangible results
-Future-proof your career and business without the risk

Only 6 slots per cohort — 3 cohorts/year.

If you’re leading innovation or transformation, DM me to share your AI idea to see if you qualify.

Alberto Ares

GTM Dart

GTM Dart is helping CEOs solve complex problems in the Go-To-Market space helping build up the processes and people required to scale revenue across, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success (CS), and Revenue Operations

Founder

CNSTRCT Network

CNSTRCT is a financial management platform built to streamline payments, invoicing, and project tracking for the construction industry. Contractors, subcontractors, and clients often face long payment cycles, financial disputes, and inefficient cash flow management—CNSTRCT eliminates these pain points by automating milestone-based payments, reducing administrative burdens, and ensuring faster, more transparent transactions.

Head of GTM

BairesDev

BairesDev is your expert partner who works alongside clients to build high-quality software solutions with speed and precision.

Senior Client Partner Advisor 

WLNC

WeLoveNoCode is a global BPO services company providing businesses with unlimited, high-quality NoCode development services at a flat rate.

--Acquired By Toptal  

Turning ideas into reality.

Key Achievements:
-GTM SaaS
-Hire and train 8/technology reps $1.2M annual in quota, per rep
-Partnerships with $3B CMS
-Raise 1 Million seed round in less than a month 
-Tripple company evaluation
-Partnership with Backendless 
-Move from MRR to ARR model with SaaS agreements into the SMB/MM ACV, + 450%
-Implement repeatable sales process, leveraging EI, IQ, selling through curiosity
-World-Class Sales Enablement
-Key process implementations in, tech stacks, CRM, Sequencing solutions, rev ops, head of marketing, ICPs, channels, CS Onboarding
-$1.8MIl in ARR all inbound (-sub 4 months)
-30% month over month growth, 50+ annual customers in 6 months from ZERO

Head of Sales 0=>4M in 8months (War disruption)-Acquired By Toptal

PIN Business Network

PIN Allows you to for the first time to control your marketing data input and output. Controlling your customer data, how you talk to them, what environments that work for your business, top & bottom line.

-Understanding your consumer cycles 
-Allowing you to micro-target them
-Controlling all channels

Vice President of Sales

INTERVOKE

I help uncover the most complex sciences thro virtualization and drive revenue for Intervoke with my team of knowledgeable experts.

VP of Sales

At Intervoke we custom engineer real-time interactive software programs and applications for the life sciences, pharma, medical and film industries. 

We are a scientific sales enablement solution that helps take a complex narrative and make it look simple, easy and beautiful.

I am responsible for the creation of the sales processes, cycles, and teams to bring INTERVOKE to market and building something beautiful.

• Created and built a team of AE’s all hitting 100% of quota attainment
• Implemented new strategy and platforms to maximise opportunity pipeline (15x  100k-7Mil+)
• Developed sales playbook and scripts to maximise onboarding and increased ramp time to sub 90days
• Built inside sales lead generation by leveraging data resources and sequencing solutions 
• Built channel partner relationships with billion-dollar distribution channels 
• Expanded into new verticals and markets

Director of Sales-Player/Coach

BirdEye

BirdEye is a leading SAAS platform for Business Reputation Marketing (BRM) and next generation Customer Experience that enables businesses to evaluate their current online presence and perception and to develop methods and strategies to acquire new customers, retain customers and increase revenue by:

•	Online Presence — Create consistent business presence on 50+ sites
•	Authentic Reviews — Monitor 100s of review sites in one place, get feedback from customers in real-time, resolve customer experience issues quickly 
•	Review Marketing — Expand reach and customer conversion by promoting best reviews on your website, social channels and search engines
•	Analytics and Benchmarking — Stay ahead of the pack by gaining actionable insights from your competitors’ customers 

The BirdEye Customer Experience Platform converts in-moment feedback into swift corrective actions, leading to positive experiences; our natural language processing and big data engine gleans all the customer feedback to provide businesses with actionable insights and competitive benchmarking to fine-tune products, services and operations.

BirdEye was founded in 2012 by alumni from Yahoo, Google, Amazon and Cisco. We’re a team of 100+ strong headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Denver and Dallas. BirdEye powers 10M+ reviews and is trusted by 15,000+ businesses ranging from prominent F1000 brands to SMBs.

Specialties
Reputation marketing, Reviews management, Enterprise analytics, Reviews and ratings, Business presence, Customer sentiment, Competitor analytics, Customer experience management

Head of the West 

Act-On Software, Inc.

Act-On Software is a fresh, innovative, and fast growing company that provides an award-winning, cloud-based marketing automation platform to more than 2,000 satisfied customers, worldwide. With a robust suite of advanced technologies, Act-On gives marketers ever-evolving tools for sales and marketing success – and gives employees the opportunity, incentives, and support to contribute, grow, and excel. I help SMB & Enterprise companies realize the power of marketing automation with turn key solutions that make big impacts on time, increasing revenue and killing your marketing goals. 

If you want to grow your sales funnel and crush your 2015 goals give me call.

European Sales Manager-EMEA

FullContact Inc.

FullContact is solving the world's contact information problem by providing APIs to software developers to keep contact information clean, complete and current. 

FullContact provides identity resolution for all of the disparate pieces of contact information out there on the web. We do this by aggregating billions of contact records, all with numerous attributes, including quality, freshness and frequency. 

Our patent pending algorithms process all of this data and automatically produce clean, accurate full contact records. As a final step, we then check each data element to make sure that it's publicly available before providing it to our customers.

Go to market in a new vertical, work with companies to improve their innovations around social data to help the creation of amazing features. Targeting companies in the CRM, Membership platforms, Political and E-Commerce space building a repeatable process.  Working with organizations like: Next Principles, SalsaLabs, Tradesy, Kindful, RNC (Palladium Labs), Campaign for America's Future, Batchbook, Sage (Act), Square, TrackVia, Inserato, Salesformics and more.

Director, API Sales

Xactly Corp

The core purpose of Xactly is to empower companies of all sizes to incent right. For years great business leaders have recognized that sales compensation is one of the prime motivators for a company's success. The right plans can increase profits, control expenses and drive consistent quarter-over-quarter results.

Bay Area Target:
Employee number 7 in the Denver office to cross the chasm into SMB from Enterprise. 

Managed the west coast of the US territory, targeting specifically C-level executives, to create sales funnel, generate leads, and evangelize the overall value of Xactly’s compensation solution. Guide prospective clients through their respective sales cycles. Conduct webinars and product demonstrations to qualified executives, highlighting and matching genuine needs that Xactly’s solution can resolve.

West Coast Territory Guru

Sales Leader 5x | Development focused | 3x IPOs | Structured & Disciplined growth | Founders led movements to sales led | Team builder | People motivator

Since I can remember, I’ve been driven by the need to lead and drive revenue,  while fine-tuning processes for maximum results. 

I’m passionate about connecting with customers gaining a deep understanding of their needs, solving problems, and guiding them through growth.

What keeps me up at night is my need to improve processes for the customer.

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