Vena Solutions

Growing the Microsoft channel, referral, and SI partner ecosystem globally

Director, Ecosystem Business Development

Partnership Leaders

Partnership Leaders is the industry association for Partnership / Channel / Alliances / Business Development leaders at modern technology companies.

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Pigment

Foundational Member of Pigment NA Partner team as first NA Partner Manager hire

- Recruited, onboarded, and managed all NA SI partner
- Grew partner-sourced ARR from 7% to 32%+ of closed won ACV 
- Grew partner-attach rate from 25% to 96% of closed won opportunities
- Increased win rate on partner co-sold deals by 100% 
- Trained, mentored and acted as day-to-day manager for Partner Development Manager
- Provided strategic direction for Pigment Partner Universe development

Senior Partner Manager:

- Tasked with growing Strategic Regional North American partners
- Achieved 108% of Q3 quota
- Over-exceeded FY24 quota

Senior Partner Manager

- Promoted to Senior Partner Manager & Channel Sales Lead (SMB-MM Sales Manager)
- Started & led Pigment's NA Channel (SMB-MM) sales team, grew team from 3 to 5 AEs in 6 months, achieving 141% of H1 quota
- Achieved 125% of partner management quota

Senior Partner Account Manager & Sales Lead

- First Partner Manager hire in North America
- Achieved 110% of quota, recruiting, enabling, and growing all North American SI partners

Partner Account Manager

Manager, Partner Success

- Achieved 147% of H2 2020 plan
- Sales Advisory Council

Partner Development Manager

Sales & Partner Development Representative

Sales Development Representative

Monex Canada

- Generated several hundreds of thousands in revenue through developing and managing relationships with SMEs, corporations, and TSX-listed companies 
- Researched and presented daily briefings on changes in the market, world news, and central bank activity, in order to improve the knowledge base and sales conversation quality among the business development team

Business Development Executive

I Love Travel!

- Recruited, trained, and managed over 90 campus representatives across 20 university campuses to sell ski vacations through cold-calling, referrals, inbound applications, campus visits and social media posts
- Crafted targeted sales strategies that led to a 30% increase in collective sales in the regions of British Columbia, New York City, and Pennsylvania in under one year

Account Manager (University Division)

Labatt Breweries of Canada

My role: To make Budweiser cool again

I spent the year architecting and running promotional campaigns geared towards major student groups like the UBC Greek System, Alma Mater Society, hosting pub nights, and getting Budweiser's in the hands of the most socially influential students at UBC.

Due to the success of myself and my colleagues in other territories, Labatt doubled down on their investments towards the legal drinking age to age 24 addressable market

Campus Activation Manager

Partnerships & Sales @ Pigment // FP&A, SPM, and S&OP

Like Galaxy, but without the G

I work with Microsoft partners to bring agentic AI-powered FP&A solutions to their clients arsenal, helping them make better decisions faster. If you specialize in Dynamics, PowerBI, Fabric, ERP, or Copilot, we should chat.

Outside of my professional life, I have an interest in fitness and understanding why people do what they do.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, you can reach me via DM or via email.

mattlar.aleksi@gmail.com 👈

Aleksi Mattlar

University of Minnesota

PhD in Cognitive Science, Department of Psychiatry

Universiteit Maastricht

MSc in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Specialization: Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Masters

The University of British Columbia

• Perception-Action Lab - University of British Columbia 
• Directly supervised the overall operation of the lab, including experimental progress, laboratory organization, supply inventory, and training of graduate students
• Oversaw the conduction of experiments and equipment use (EEG, tDCS), submission and upkeep of research ethics approvals, tracking expenditures, and financial reconciliation

Research Laboratory Manager 

• Perception-Action Lab - University of British Columbia 
• Collected EEG data on studies with clinical populations including eating disorders, mild traumatic brain injury, and breast cancer patients
• Applied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to participants in studies researching concussion intervention 
• Conducted EEG data preprocessing and analysis using BESA Software, Matlab, EEGLAB and SPSS
• Analyzed EEG data using graph theoretical analysis, ERP analysis, and power spectral density analysis

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