Chris Haslam

Move

Move is the on-demand talent team for many of Europe's fastest-scaling tech companies 🚀

We empower our clients by dedicating a team of expert in-house talent partners on a monthly rolling subscription. We guarantee that our clients will reduce the cost and time of building game-changing teams.

We specialise in building great teams in:
👩‍💻 Tech
💰 GTM & Sales
📈 Growth and Marketing
📱 Product & Design
🏠 Operations

If you've got this far, let's start something amazing chris@wearemove.com.

Co-Founder

TA Tech Unboxed

Podcast Co-Host

Monese

Talent Advisor (via MOVE)

Divido

Microsoft

Framestore

Live Tech Games

Handshake

LaunchDarkly

Spryker

Talent Advisor & Co-founder, Move | exp. scaling 200+ teams | Sharing hiring tips for startups

Bad hiring costs thousands, spooks investors and slows growth 😱. 

Our TaaS ('Talent-as-a-Service') model ensures you get it right when you most need to. We’re experts at securing top talent that thrives in early-stage tech businesses. And, we’ll set you up for hiring success so you can do it without us in the future 🚀

We specialise in building great teams in:
👩‍💻 Tech
💰 GTM & Sales
📈 Growth and Marketing
📱 Product & Design
🏠 Operations

Work with your own dedicated, expert talent team on a subscription basis during periods of growth. No long contracts. Guaranteed hires. 

🤝 Trusted by top companies including; SeedLegals, Monese, Microsoft, Farewill, Visionable, Percent, Spryker, and LaunchDarkly, to name but a few of our awesome partners. 🎉

Don't take our word for it, check out our testimonials page 👀

🚀 https://www.wearemove.com/testimonials 🚀

Move is the on-demand talent team to many oof Europe's fastest scaling tech companies 🚀

We empower our clients by dedicating a team of expert in-house talent partners on a monthly rolling subscription. We guarantee that our clients will reduce cost and time of building game-changing teams, 

Our current clients include:
SeedLegals, Monese, Collibra, Spryker, LaunchedDarkly, Microsoft, Farewill, Cuvva, Machine Max, Ditto Bank/Travelex, Argent, FutureLearn, Houzz, Kamet Ventures, Anorak Technologies, Birdie Care, Topham Guerin, SharpEnd, The Tin, Unit 9, Nucco Brain, Possible, Gravity Global, BigLight, Rehab Studios, Edelman.

We specialise in building great teams in:
👩‍💻 Tech
💰 GTM & Sales
📈 Growth and Marketing
📱 Product & Design
🏠 Operations

If you've got this far, let's start something amazing chris@wearemove.com.

PipeGen Inc

PipeGen Inc is a strategic growth consultancy which partners with founders to generate their sales pipeline.

In order to achieve revenue targets organisations must have the right talent, toolstack and processes in place to drive qualified pipeline. We offer startups/scaleups and SME's the skills and strategy to adopt efficient and effective outreach, qualification and lead processing programmes using the latest AI technologies and global expertise. 

We are here to partner with you to build your sales development function in-house and deliver a scalable + sustainable model ensuring you hit the sales targets you have committed to your investors.

CEO & Founder

As the Global Head of Sales Development I am responsible for developing a comprehensive pipeline strategy and implementing frameworks to deliver top-of-funnel opportunity generation. Having built a global high-performing BDR/ISR team we service ICP relevant incoming leads and convert them into SQLs; whilst also delivering on a focused outbound strategy for key target accounts.

Strategic Responsibilities
End-to-end divisional ownership of strategy, planning and execution
Precise forecasting and analysis of ‘upper funnel’ pipeline metrics
Collaboration with GTM divisional stakeholders to build transformative business plans
Partake in company OKRs, KPI’s and initiatives to drive success
Build a Global senior BDR & ISR team

Global Head of Sales Development

* Recruit a team of global BDRs, SDRs, Inside Sales Reps and Team leads to drive the pipeline. Worked alongside talent team to define criteria of seniority required for this team and support the hiring process from end-to-end
* Develop and execute the global outbound and inbound prospecting strategy including creation of business development onboarding playbooks, product training, ramp up and scaling programmes. This strategy reduced BDR on-boarding time form 3 months to 6 weeks
* Work with Sales Operations and Marketing to develop and implement, a sales & marketing automation ‘tech stack’, enabling the execution of omni-channel and omni-touch outreach and social media campaigns to drive awareness and quality lead generation 
* Develop the metrics for task based activities which will drive engagement within the prospects and continuously analyse the data to ensure effective, scalable and successful performance. Reporting to internal stakeholders on achievements, misses and optimisation plans. Initiate projects and business cases to bring in new tools as required
* Train and coach the global team on all areas of outbound and inbound activities, including execution of new business strategies such as meaningful ICP match, account mapping, prospect research, hyper personalised email cadences, relevant cold/warm calling, social selling and advanced qualification criteria
* Enable the team to qualify opportunity multiple times with key decision-makers and set high quality meetings for their AE’s; request business, c-level and technical resources to maximise on the opportunity of ‘FaceTime’ with target personas
* Ensure Team Leaders, BDR/SDR and ISR (Inside Sales) team members continuously improve performance by providing regular feedback and coaching in weekly 1:1s. Fostering a strong trustworthy leader/team member relationship allowed to identify areas for improvement, and using Performance Improvement and Development Plans where necessary to ensure continuous growth

Head of Sales Development - EMEA, APAC and Growth Markets 

Kinetica 

Responsible for training, onboarding and mentoring SDR’s across APAC, EMEA and North America regions.

SDR’s are assigned to vertical-led AE’s and my core responsibility is to lead by example for researching and prospecting targeted personas to drive engagement and education on our product to pre-qualify and book AE/SE appointments. 

Responsibilities include

For the SDR’s
•	Train SDR’s operating in all regions by guiding, coaching and mentorship of best practices, ongoing product/value proposition training and handling challenges
•	Plan bi-weekly Solutions Engineering ‘Insight Hour’ to ensure regular product/new features and competitor training 
•	‘Always Available’ approach to support daily lead-generation opportunities 
•	Conducting weekly 1:1’s including open communication and feedback to ensure continued performance improvements and lead gen wins
•	Ensure high morale and creature a positive culture amongst SDR’s

For the Business
•	Collaborate with Sales Enablement team to set up best SDR prospecting practices including tools evaluation/selection and team training
•	Collaborate with Marketing, Product and Enablement team to develop compelling and relevant message source for SDR outbound communications
•	Work closely with the Marketing teams to identify regional events, platforms and other opportunities suitable for lead generation
•	Provide on-going reports and metrics on marketing led demand generation campaigns
•	Collaborate with Product/Marketing/Engineering/Customer Success team for Kinetica Cloud launch. Ensure all Business Development and client on-boarding SLA’s are met for a successful launch
•	Work closely with Senior Leadership Team and Sales Directors to improve SDR contribution to overall pipe, provide ongoing first-to-field feedback and ways to refine positioning and prospecting strategies
•	Accurate reporting across all systems (SalesForce, SalesLoft, HubSpot) for management to view global SDR contribution to overall pipe on weekly forecast calls

Global Business Development Team Lead 

I'm thrilled to join Kinetica and drive sales and long-term partnerships in EMEA!

Kinetica develops a GPU-accelerated, data insights platform for the #ExtremeDataEconomy helping our customers become data-powered businesses - with key partners like NVIDIA, Dell, HP, and IBM.

There is no other GPU accelerated analytical product that has the maturity, scalability, high availability, security and execution capability that Kinetica has. We have some of the largest organisations in the world using Kinetica at scale for a broad variety of analytical workloads.

Data’s useful life might be only hours or minutes. If you can analyse it within that useful window, that’s massive competitive advantage. 

Don’t be held back by legacy DBMS vendors that can’t compare - it’s a matter of mathematics!

Business Development Lead- EMEA Region

MarkLogic

Role & Responsibilities 

As the UK SDR for Financial Services & Insurance clients my role is to generate new leads for my reps to convert to sales. I work to quarterly targets to deliver approx. 15 QSO’s (qualified sales opportunities) using an outbound/inbound method of lead follow up and a strict account planning process.. 

•	Conduct Integrated Account Plans on my assigned named accounts
•	Identify key stakeholders and decision makers to target 
•	Ensure marketing collateral is available to support my pitch
•	Build powerful email and LinkedIn Sales Navigator templates for prospecting 
•	Plan and deliver 6 week prospecting campaign to target leads and drive engagement of content. Once engaged book a qualification call and follow up with a meeting booked for the SE

Senior Sales Development Representative

Dynatrace

The Role & Responsibilities

•	Create and prioritise strategic target account lists within a defined territory
•	Conduct territory research to Uncover and approach prospects to generate new business opportunities to fuel the sales pipeline
•	Conduct high-level conversations with key stakeholders to identify and qualify a sales opportunity to then generate technical demo’s and face-to-face meetings for the Sales Rep and SE to follow up
•	Ability to identify business pains, objectives, and related impacts on a prospects organisation. I am able to hold a business conversation with a variety of contact types including senior / board level contacts – conversations that follow Dynatrace sales methodology and establish appropriate agreed next actions.	
•	Master and deliver our company value proposition and differentiation points. Evangelize Dynatrace and AI powered performance monitoring
•	Responsible for updating and managing activity and pipeline on SFDC

Sales Development Representative | Digital Transformation and Performance Management, EMEA

Luxtripper

Luxtripper was a pure start-up environment and a role which allowed me to be responsible for a number of sales and sales operation functions. As a small team we were tasked with raising funding to grow the business and deliver the CEO’s vision of cheap and bespoke luxury travel. 

Accountabilities – Head of Sales 

•	Support the CEO and Chairman to research, prepare and deliver the first round of funding, target £150k- raised: £250k. A second round of £650K was also delivered 12months later 
•	Once the funding came in I took on the Head of Sales role to hire a team of 3 sales executives and a sales support assistant and create a sales and operations function within the business. This team was responsible for managing all inbound holiday enquires and book revenue.
•	The sales support executive was responsible for putting together the entire holiday package and book all the trips
•	My role included mentoring and supporting the team with their daily workloads, helping them close their sales and reach their sales targets.
•	Maintain relationships with the investors who booked their holidays with Luxtripper  to maximise repeat business/referrals
	Working closely with the CTO, Head of Marketing and CPO to develop and undertake strategies to convert online users to leads 
	Weekly and Monthly reporting to CEO of sales/profits and new business
	Manage and grow B2B partner contracts with global luxury hotels and suppliers to ensure competitive inventory rates and long-term partnerships.

Head Of Sales

Career Break

In this 22 month period I took a break from my sales career to focus on setting up a henna, hair and makeup business which serves the Asian wedding community

CPI Dubai

Accountabilities – Sales Manager
•	Research UAE online market and put forward the Analysis & Strategic Business Plan to re-launch www.mallsindubai.ae 
•	Hire and manage the team required to implement and run the site for all divisions 
•	Manage each division and assign daily/weekly tasks to ensure smooth running and growth of the website 
•	On-going planning of sales and marketing initiatives to ensure target audience reach and sales conversions
•	Analyse and report back the weekly status of the site to CPI management team 
•	Forecast and set revenue targets for sales team – motivate and assist the team to ensure the monthly targets are achieved.

Sales Manager -  Contract

Gumtree.com -eBay

The Gumtree Agency Sales Manager is responsible for developing and delivering the assigned revenue targets through selling digital media space to London’s tier 1 and 2 digital agencies via existing accounts and development of new accounts/business.

Accountabilities

	Identify new sales opportunities as well as building on existing accounts to develop the account/customer base and consistently upsell 
	Pitch and sell performance-based behavioural targeting using technology solutions, geo-targeting, keywords and paid search
	Providing weekly/monthly campaign analysis and reports to clients and offer solutions for further campaign optimisation

Magicalia

As a new launch - my role was to represent the new brand to all new prospect clients and be the primary day-to-day contact for all sales/new business enquiries. Having come from a parenting media background I had excellent contacts within the industry to start and build the new client base which enabled 100% new business achievements within first 10 months of site launch

Accountabilities

	Pitch MadeForMums to an extensive database of clients and agencies across the UK
	Develop 100% digital new business – agency and client direct 
	Forecast and manage personal sales revenue and new business accounts
	Report daily/weekly updates to management
	Attend industry events and exhibitions to promote MadeForMums, network and source new business opportunities

Achievements  
•	Accountable for 70% of monthly sales revenue: £40k+
•	100% new business achieved between July – Dec 09
•	Developed excellent agency contacts and relations with Top 10 Media Agencies
•	Won 3 key industry accounts (P&G, Kimberly Clarke & Unilever) 
•	Exceeded ongoing month-on-month sales revenue target by 30%
•	Developed my account management skill set

Account Manager

CEO and founder at PipeGen Inc | Growth Consultant | Helping early-stage founders build sales pipeline with AI technologies.

With over 20 years of experience in pipeline generation I am a passionate and results-oriented sales professional who is leading PipeGen Inc, a strategic growth consultancy. My mission is to develop and execute comprehensive pipeline strategies for our clients which deliver top-of-funnel opportunity generation and drives revenue growth for startups/scale-ups and SME's.

In my more recent leadership roles I have built high-performing and diverse teams of BDRs, ISRs, and team leads across multiple regions, and have implemented frameworks and best practices for inbound and outbound prospecting, lead qualification, and project identification . I have also collaborated with sales, marketing, product, corporate strategy and operations teams to align our goals, optimise our processes, and leverage our technology stack. Through my leadership and expertise, we have achieved significant improvements in pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and customer satisfaction.
With this knowledge I embark on a journey to work with founders and industry experts to support business development transformation programmes and drive results relating directly to hitting sales quota.

The business development world is evolving. AI is changing the way we interact with our prospects and we are encouraged to learn and grow with it and deliver the best-in-class strategies for scale and building sustainable BD functions in-house.

Follow our page @PipeGen Inc for more info.

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