ICIS

"We saved $5 million negotiating a contract with a $36 billion supplier we work with" - ICIS is a global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services. We connect data, markets and customers to create a comprehensive, trusted view of global commodities markets, enabling smarter business decisions that optimize the world’s resources.

Regional Account Manager

Kiva.org

I invest in women-owned businesses (55) worldwide, including Kenya, Vietnam, Guatemala, Lebanon, Uganda, Sierra Leon, and Jordan. $25 can change someone's life. If everyone helped one person with economic change, what ripple effect would that have? Make a loan, change a life!

Micro Lender

Elite Tech Sales Training

Free Training for anyone! - Having closed $10 Million in ARR in Enterprise Sales(In one role in a fiscal year) I think I can say I have some credibility driving sales cycles from opening to close, now Im putting that knowledge to use helping people for free break into tech sales, get hired after a layoff, or get a better paying role with a $15,000-$40,000 base pay raise! 

"Hey Scott, wanted to thank you for your tips on getting hired. Just got an offer letter for 15k more than my prior base salary due to your ideas regarding ICP list building and 30-60-90 plans for the hiring process. Thanks again for making a big difference with your presentation of various ideas, as well as the mindset shift I had after."

"Within 30 minutes the head trash I had from being laid off was mostly gone. I went to work that day and had 3 offers by Christmas Eve. I got a 35K bump in base salary with a larger more organized company! without Scott My search might have taken longer! Super thankful."

"Scott, thank you for your program. I joined your info session during the first week of recruiting and leveraged that knowledge in my interview process. I interviewed for BDR/SDR and AE at many high quality sales orgs. Ended up with 5 competitor offers and picked one, am now a sales manager at a company working with a really cool location based data product. I want to thank you. You inspired me and the frameworks you presented helped me."

Helping People

SORACOM

Sr. Business Development Manager

Lucidworks

Lucidworks is shaping the future of digital experiences, AI, and machine learning by offering the Connect Cloud Experience (CXC). We help companies combine the power of search and machine learning to personalize experiences that meet employees' and customers' unique intent. With technology built on Solr, the global search standard used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, our team includes leading search and discovery contributors and committers as well as many of the world's foremost search and machine learning innovators. Teams at Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, Goop, Reddit, Red Hat, and Commvault rely on Lucidworks every day to power product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management applications. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International.

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

InMobi

"InMobi has been highly efficient in delivering user acquisition and retargeting campaigns while meeting our performance expectations – consistently driving quality users across the funnel to engage in the app and drive in-app purchases for us."
PLAYRIX

InMobi platforms help brands, performance marketers and app publishers engage mobile users across different stages of their lifecycle, converting each mobile moment into an opportunity to drive engagement and revenue. Recognized by Fast Company as one of The Most Innovative Companies in 2016, InMobi reaches over 1.5 billion unique mobile devices worldwide, and is redefining business models for the mobile ecosystem. For more information, visit www.inmobi.com

Business Development Manager - Gaming, North America

Boostinsider

Saved largest churned VIP client for large five figures a month, worked on six figure deal to secure long term relationship 

Custom Social Influencer - IGG Lords Mobile with SSSniper Wolf (6 Million Subscribers, 250K views on one video )
CPC campaigns via Social - Tumblr  - Low CPI with high LTV and ARPU > ROI
Snowball SDK for tracking - Think Appsflyer, Adjust, Tune etc 
SaaS - Gift attribution and tracking - no more custom dev for promo codes - build once, change for different promotions and cohorts

Combined our Team has run over 1500 custom influencer campaigns, CPC, CPA, and CPI campaigns with companies like IGG, Machine Zone, Match.com, Good&Co etc

Testing budgets start at $15,000 and generally scale to $50,000 to 100,000 monthly IO or total campaign spend.

Head of Sales

Adways Inc.

Closed $30,000-$50,000 per month for duration. Worked closely with CEO to transition from Founder led sales. 

My commitment to my clients was to generate ROI from our campaigns or refund their money. Proud to say my team never had to write that check. For every user acquisition dollar invested they could count on a 2x, 5x, 10x return. Of the 500 plus campaigns run had a 95% success and review from our clients. Generated below industry standard CPI($3) with unheard of ARPU and LTV > $50-$400. Drove over 500,000 installs from community of over 1 million users and generated over $1,000,000 in app spend. Ran 7-15 monthly insertion orders. mobile gaming UA campaigns ranging from $5,000-$100,000.

Responsible for developing and owning working relationships with global gaming companies and running: CPM, CPC, CPA, CPI and social influencer mobile marketing campaigns. 

Worked with world class developers and publishers like:
EA, Bandai Namco (Montreal, US, And Europe)Machine Zone, WebZen, Square Enix, Sega, Kabam, Turbine,NetEase, Gree, Glu, IGG, Colopl, Scopely, Pocket Gems, and Disney.

Worked on world class titles Like: 
Justice Monster 5, Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Summoners War, Mobile Strike, Eternal Arena, MUOrgins, Lords Mobile, Batman: Arkham Underworld etc

Personally ran over 100 plus campaigns on Midcore, RPG, JRPG, Strategy, Action, Casual and Social Games including Global Pre-registrations, Soft Launches, Beta Tests, Updates and Major Updates. 

Did Icon, Screen Shot, description, video, and gift optimization via Adways Prelaunch platform to boost conversions for campaigns from top of funnel to CPI, on boarding through tutorial to significant spend. 

Work closely to align campaigns with appropriate game launches. Launch and support the success of our clients mobile game campaigns and ensure a happy user community. Balance sales, operations, and account management. 

Attend Conferences GDC, E3, and Casual Connect 2016,2017

Head of Sales and Business Development

Plan B 4 Sales

Datanyze (acquired by ZoomInfo) - Helped close over 50 plus accounts for $250,000 in ARR and helped record breaking growth from $1 million ARR to $10 Million ARR. 

Worked with companies using technology data to track competitors and find pre-qualified opportunities where sales cycles can be driven from 20% qualified opportunity stage to close. Think a Marketo Account Executive knows when someone adds or drops Act-On(Direct Competitor) to their website.

Success Stories: 
Evident.io - 20x revenue growth (ARR)-7x increase paying customers
Fullcircle CRM - Increased SDR team’s qualified opportunity output by 22% in one month. 
Clearbit
Bedrock Data
MessageGears 

We provide outsourced sales capabilities to initiate your sales process or supplement and support existing efforts. Technology companies that have benefited from Plan B for Sales affiliates include HP, IBM, Oracle and a slew of technology start-ups.

The need for Plan B is evidenced by the failure rate of new technology companies and the annual turnover rate for experienced technology sales people.
There are two groups PlanB4Sales.com is designed to service:
    ► Companies with an existing sales organization
    ► Start-ups with current sales efforts limited to principals
    
Used expertise to help companies set up meetings, generate qualified opportunities, advance sales cycles, grow massive pipeline, close deals, and add revenue. 

● Enterprise Business Development, Marketing,and Sales
● Email automation platforms(Vocus now Outmarket, Act-On, SalesGenius, Leadformix, PersistIQ)
● CRM(Salesforce.com) integration, data cleansing , reporting, and dashboards
● Ideal Customer Profile database development with verified/cleansed information including email, phone, and social(Data.com, InsideView, Clearbit, and Rapportive)
● Social selling tactics including Twitter, LinkedIn, and content marketing
● Power Dialers (Connect&Sell and Callfire)

Director of Sales and Business Development

Arrayent, Inc.

Worked with executive team to build out, deploy, and execute on aggressive sales and marketing plan. Cleaned up CRM, deployed email marketing automation, built significant lead database, cleansed data to ensure low bounce rates, targeted named accounts through account based marketing while working with CMO. Set up and managed vertical campaigns. Built multi-million dollar pipeline in support of Enterprise Sales Reps and VP of Sales. Penetrated 90% of top named accounts. Managed results in CRM with reporting and dashboards. Worked with vendors to vet, acquire, and deploy key software essential to pipeline and revenue growth. Managed outsourced BDR resources. 

Arrayent’s application platform frees you from the cost and complexity of buying, engineering, and maintaining a communications infrastructure for your connected products.You gain the peace of mind that market leaders including Whirlpool and Chamberlain Group are driving new, product-differentiating features, proving the reliability and scale of the Arrayent application platform.Our connected product deployment know-how will get your products to market faster, with much lower cost and complexity.

Director of Business Development and Sales - Consultant

$10 million Closed Won in One Fiscal Year with Companies like Regeneron, Kellogg's, and Fitch Solutions.

Helping anyone break into tech sales for free - sign up- https://bit.ly/FBITSCT

> 50 people I coached for free have gotten offers within weeks of working together
> 200 students coached free 
"Scott, thank you for your tips on getting hired. Just got an offer letter for 15k more than my prior base salary due to your ideas regarding ICP list building and 30-60-90 plans for the hiring process. Thanks again for making a difference with your various ideas, as well as the mindset shift I had after."

> $3,000,000 in positive economic change through free coaching (combined base salary of coached candidates).



Sign Up for Elite Tech Sales Tips  Delivered to Your Inbox: http://bit.ly/3YSvUB0

One role closed > $9 million in ARR allowing me to work with the brightest tech teams from the Fortune 500 (Regeneron etc) on cutting-edge search #machinelearning #ai deployments at scale that resulted in $100s of millions of net new revenue and or productivity gained for our clients. Expert at managing legacy on-premise Enterprise Search deployments as well as migrations to accelerate #digitaltransformations to #kubernetes cloud-native infrastructures. 

Technology Certifications : 
Salesforce Trailhead: Mountaineer (Level 3), 93 Badges, 18,050 Points
Outreach: Prospecting, Closing, Manager, and Admin Specialist Certification
ZoomInfo SalesOS Certification
Drift: Conversational Sales Certificate
Salesloft Admin Level 1
Force Management MEDDIC Sales Training: 4.7 star reviews on G2 Crowd 

With 5 successful exits I understand how to take product to market from 0 > $10-$150 million in ARR as an individual contributor, consultant, and trusted advisor. 

Learned from some of the best Sales Leadership in the Silicon Valley ie ex Marketo and Gainsight
Exits: Genius.com acquired by CallidusCloud (First Sales Engagement Platform) 
Kony Solutions acquired by Temenos (Enterprise Mobile Dev Platform)
July Systems acquired by Cisco (Enterprise Mobile Marketing Platform) 
Arrayent acquired by Prodea (Enterprise IoT) 
Datanyze acquired by ZoomInfo

Early-stage start-up hunter for finding and closing new business. Building sales territories from scratch and bring on important early or 1st clients to prove product market fit and scale from there. Met or exceeded quota in numerous roles, SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise. Responsible for taking international products to market in the US x4.

Scott Ward

Flair Labs

Monitor, analyze, and optimize every customer interaction with cutting-edge AI technology. Flair (YC S22) replaces manual call reviews, tracks buying signals across your prospects, and automates follow-ups so you never miss out on a deal. Schedule a demo now at https://www.flairlabs.ai/demo

Flair is backed by the Stanford AI Lab and Y-Combinator

GTM & Customer Success

Horizon Labs

Proudly the "least technical person on the team", I run sales, account management, and ops for our family-run, product-focused dev shop. We build web, mobile, and AI products for seed and series-A startups. 3 cofounders in the US (SF, LA), 4 more on-shore engineers, and 1 co-founder in Turkey managing 25+ engineers. Learn more at https://horizon-labs.co/

Co-Founder / Customer Success Lead

The Startup Studios Podcast 

StartupStudios is a podcast that highlights advisors, specialists, investors, fractional executives, and ecosystem resources for early-stage companies. We also match startups with people within our network through our concierge for Founders and their teams. Like a concierge for your startup or personal needs, we'll take the time to listen before matching you within our community. Contact us for personalized support, or listen to our podcast with friends who build startups.

*Currently taking a break to build Flairlabs.ai

Co-host

My consulting firm for part-time startup work. I've moved this over to horizon-labs.co 

What I've been hired for:
- Advise Founders and their core team through pre-seed, seed, and series-A challenges. 
- A fresh set of eyes for a new product, feature, pitch deck, or initiative. 
- Team-building & culture activities
- Create go-to-market & growth strategies.
- Develop fundraising docs & outreach systems. 
- Fix co-founder conflicts & cross-communication. 
- Build or manage teams for product dev, sales, marketing, and operations. 
- Redesign systems/processes or build them for scale. 
- Manage vendors & fractional resources towards a common goal.

Companies I've worked with:
- TheTalentGames.com - Fundraising Consultant - 6 months
- Founderslist.com - Growth Consultant - 3 months
- Lavashak.com - Growth Consultant - 6 months
- DeltaLeafLabs.com - Growth Consultant - 3 months, then FT as COO for 15 mos. 
- Thrv.health - Growth Consultant - 3 months 
- Stealth startup - Product Advisor - Current
- PolymerSearch.com - Growth Consultant - Current

How it works:
1) Tell me what problem(s) you're trying to solve over a free call.
2) I can point you in a few directions or connect you with someone more experienced in my network (if I deem fit). 
3) If you'd like me to solve it for you, we can discuss compensation 

DM me for more info or schedule an intro now - I love talking to founders!

*All of my consulting work is now done at www.horizon-labs.co

Co-Founder

Cresance Inc

Generative AI for cloud efficiency. Cresance is your singular cloud efficiency platform that will save you 20-80% on your cloud bills! Ask me how!

Cresance is a StartX and Alchemist Accelerator company.

VP Product (Founding Team)

Cannabis Genome DAO

"AWS for Cannabis data", the Cannabis Genome DAO was created by Delta Leaf to incentivize participation in open-source cannabis genome research.  Our primary means of accomplishing this are through the creation of a community-owned open-source data marketplace, open-access publication server and decentralized seed bank.

Community Manager (Founding Team)

Delta Leaf Laboratories

Plant & cannabis genetic testing lab that worked with home growers & commercial growers to analyze their plant DNA. Our team made the kits ourselves, sold them DTC through our website, analyzed samples at our lab in Santa Barbara, and then uploaded results securely on Google Drive within 2-5 business days. 

Tests included:
- Plant DNA test to identify Male or Female seeds. 
- Plant virus & fungal identification. 
- Strain fingerprinting & DNA sequencing.
- Hop latent viroid (HLVd) testing. 
- Major Cannabinoid ID 
& many more.

Co-Founder & COO 

Plant & Cannabis DNA biotech startup creating tests that make farming more efficient, eco-friendly, and affordable! Learn more at www.deltaleaflabs.com

Growth Advisor

Planet N Group of Companies

Part of the Founding team for an Asia-focused venture capital fund, growing operations from scratch and investing in 42 pre-seed, seed, and series-A startups. I was responsible for collecting deal flow, portfolio governance, community programs, and supporting some of the region's best entrepreneurs!

Verticals: Fintech, Healthtech, AI, Data Science, Media/Entertainment, E-commerce. SaaS. 

Check Sizes: $50k - $500k

Portfolio: Tez Financial (acquired), Tapmad TV, Dawaai, Datalift, SimPaisa, Starcrest, Well.pk, Alpha Stores, Smart Renewable Energy (SRE), KashEgypt, OrderCall, Adspiration, Kinwa Foods, ApniProperty, Evantagesoft, UrduBit, KreditGeek, KarloCompare, Simple.pk, Shukrana, and Certify.pk.

Chief Of Operations (Founding Team) 

10xC - Seed Fund

A seed fund & accelerator program aimed at investing early in Pakistan's youth making up 70% of the country's population. Each team received $10,000 to $25,000 as a first check, with 19 investments made between 2016 - 2019.

Verticals - Agnostic

Check Sizes = $10,000 - $25,000 each

Portfolio: PiePie.pk, Wifinity, FixMyPhone, Feedience, The Unipedia, Shadi Shenanigans, Adbreak, Townsmate, Daakhla, Bun ka Baap, The Creative Verge, PlaceMyAd, MobileDoctor, Hobuddies, Hacktrix, Intellibit, ReadUp, LabCloud, and RetinaVR.

Co-Founder & CEO

Independently ran the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Meetup group for 6 months, growing it to over 23,000 members by hosting weekly events in San Jose, Palo Alto, Oakland, and San Francisco. Also part of the organizing team for F50 and Google I/O's Funded! Conference at the San Francisco Convention Center hosting 1,200 attendees and 150 startups.

Community Lead (Consultant)

GetCompass

Built a competitive intelligence tool at Angelhack 2014 to help digital marketers write better ads, like WhatRunsWhere but for social ads.

Co-Founder - Operations

Hi! I'm Saif (pronounced 'Seff'), a startup builder with over a decade of experience in co-founding, investing, and advising early-stage companies. I have a passion for building products that solve real problems and delight customers. 

Currently, I lead the go-to-market and customer success at Flair Labs, an AI-powered platform that enhances call centers. I also co-run Horizon Labs, a product-minded dev shop that helps founders launch and scale their web, mobile, and AI products. In addition, I co-host StartupStudios, a podcast that showcases people who build startups. I love connecting with fellow entrepreneurs and generalists so feel free to reach out if I can be of any help!

taplio

The Battle

Scott Ward

Saif Akhtar

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?