Instrumentum

Changing the surgical landscape by offering reliable and efficient offsite instrument sterilization to Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospitals.

Chief Operating/Growth Officer

Cruxible Partners

Finding talent is a full-time job.  The best candidates aren't looking, they're performing somewhere else.  We'll find them. We've never failed to fill a role.  Period.

Chief Executive Officer

www.eatingcrowpodcast.com

If you are a leader or an entrepreneur this podcast will speak to you (well, I guess that's the point). These are stories of amazing people with the courage to lead and often admit they were wrong and challenge long-held beliefs to make change. Many of these everyday heroes have evolved into leaders and entrepreneurs, and most of their stories have never been heard, until now. Pete Durand interviews people from all walks of life - the military, finance, business, sports, government and education. We learn from their challenges, pitfalls, lessons and how, by eating crow, they used an open mind to adjust their way of thinking and lead others, including their families.

Host of the Eating Crow Podcast

Saebo, Inc.

Saebo, Inc. is a medical device company primarily engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of affordable and novel clinical solutions designed to improve mobility and function in individuals suffering from neurological and orthopedic conditions. With a vast network of Saebo-trained clinicians spanning six continents, Saebo has helped over 100,000 clients around the globe achieve a new level of independence.

Board Advisor

Netsertive

Chief Revenue Officer

RivalHealth

SaaS enterprise exercise and nutrition app.  Merged with gBehaivor to form www.gopivotsolutions.com

Integrian

Digital video solutions for public safety and transportation.  Sold to Catalyst Manufacturing

Entivity, Inc.

PC-based automation and control platform.  Sold to www. phoenixcontact.com

President and COO

Director of E-Business

ObjectAutomation

Director of Marketing

I'm fortunate to lead two great organizations.

After helping many companies scale with great talent, I've joined Instrumentum as their Chief Operating and Growth Officer, it was just too good to pass up.  My task?  Help the company scale profitably.  How?  People, Process, and Culture.  Fortunately, Cruxible Partners has provided the experience to do just that.

Instrumentum is doing great things - and Cruxible Partners is in the hands of an amazing team, so both are thriving.  Stay tuned as I share how Instrumentum is growing and changing the surgical landscape and how the leadership and talent lessons I've observed and shared over the last seven years at Cruxible are being applied.

Remember:

The average cost of hiring the wrong employee can go as high as $240,000, according to 2021 research from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Ouch.  Been there.

On the flip side, McKinsey & Co. states that hiring a ‘top performer’ over an ‘average performer’ yields up to 67% more productivity and profit.  

Been here too.  Much better place to be.

I've spent 30+ years in corporate America, worked at three startups, and founded two companies myself.  Building teams was and is the most challenging part of the job.

For the past five years I've been working with companies in the following areas:

-Product/market fit
-Marketing strategy and content
-Board advisory and consulting
-Attracting and retaining talent

If you'd like to learn more about how we can work together, please DM me or send me an email at

pdurand@cruxiblepartners.com

Pete Durand

Blink Ops

Managing a team of Enterprise Sellers.
AE of the Year

Empowering teams to leverage automation to enhance their security posture through our security automation copilot and no-code/low-code workflows.

Director of Sales

Sumo Logic

FY23: Q1 - 212%, Q2 - 140%, Q4 - 107%; 135% for the year
FY22: President's Club, AE of the Year

Sumo Logic is a Cloud-Native Logging and Analytics Platform that empowers DevOps and Security Operations teams to centralize their machine data (logs, metrics, events), break down data silos, secure code faster, reduce MTTR/MRRI, and improve identification of malicious threats.

Senior Account Executive

Self Employed

• Consulted for start-up companies and Venture Capital firms on a variety of business and sales operations solutions for private clients.
• Developed go-to-market plan for cloud-based Ransomware Protection seed-funded start-up.
• Evaluated investment opportunities.

Independent Business Consultant

LiveAction - Network Performance Management

•	Lead team in revenue generation for 2019 calendar year.
•	Provide advising and support in sales and business operations to the Vice President of Sales, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer, including organizing and leading quarterly business reviews, restructuring the sales forecasting process to improve accuracy and establish accountability, and leading weekly sales cadence calls. 
•	Spearheaded initiative to produce a tool that would enable the executive team, board of directors, and Venture Capital firm to objectively and accurately assess Sales Team performance and forecast sales revenue. 
▪	Collaborated with stakeholders to determine key performance indicators (KPI) and benchmarks. 
▪	Created a dashboard that gamified sales motions and reported data weekly to leadership, sales team, and VC firm.
▪	As a result, the Sales Team logged activities within SalesForce on a more consistent basis, producing a more accurate and predictable sales forecast over time; also enabled leadership to better assess employee performance and scale staff for future growth. 
▪	Final product highlighted for its exceptional results via a blog post created by the VC firm, attached below.

Regional Sales Manager

•	Lead a team of Account Executives responsible for selling into SMB and Mid-Market accounts and Sales Development Representatives responsible for pipeline generation.
•	Implemented policies to drive explosive growth, resulting in a 200%+ increase in pipeline generation.
•	Established the Mid-Market team, which added $250,000 in revenue with 1.5 FTE during its first quarter in existence. 
•	Provided advising and support to the Vice Presidents of Sales and Marketing around sales operations, introducing process improvements such as call scripts and email templates, and closing the feedback loop for lead generation.
•	Chaired task force to integrate Inside Sales and Account Management teams after Savvius Acquisition:
•	Monitored key program components, including performance around sales targets and commission plans, employee performance evaluations, and employee professional development.

Sales Manager

•	Responsible for US and EMEA lead generation and qualification. 
•	Led redesign of team structure and messaging to create a more effective team, which resulted in 2 FTE being able to complete the workload of 5 FTE.
•	Evaluated existing sales methods and operations, and introduced efficiencies such as producing more personalized client outreach.

Inside Sales Representative

Independent Strategies, LLC

•	Developed strategy for primary, general, and special election campaigns for various organizations, Political Action Committees (PAC), and candidates ranging from municipal to congressional. 
•	Assessed races for State House and State Senate in the I-4 region, and made recommendations for PAC support.
•	Designed collateral and media strategy and developed voter-targeting profiles.
•	Built and trained teams of volunteers and paid staff.
•	Evaluated the effectiveness of client campaigns and implemented changes for stronger election-day results.

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