Warren Hammond

Volt.io

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Volt is building the global infrastructure for real-time payments. Our network of networks unites and harmonises the world’s next-generation account-to-account payment systems, enabling merchants across the globe to accept real-time, account-based payments from their customers – seamlessly, and at lightning speed. Real-time payments, everywhere.

Interim CRO

Rhino Consulting BV

At Rhino Consulting, I work with founder owners, business leaders and sales professionals to improve the whole sales organisation - through strategy, structure, methodology and management – analysing the entire organisation that supports the salespeople. And then making it better.
Clients: Studytube, Panda International, Yonego, PCN, Belvilla, Social Talent, SendCloud

CRO| CCO| CSO |Fractional Leader

Green Story

Green Story (www.greenstory.io) is the platform helping brands unlock the potential of their sustainability data and achieve a better way of doing business - whether they are at the beginning of their journey to net-zero or are far into it already.

Thanks to our customer-friendly solutions and using the global standard of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, Green Story enables brands to accurately quantify and show the environmental performance of their products, and offset their carbon footprint, making them carbon neutral. 

As a result, we elevate the customer experience with a brand’s sustainability narrative throughout the customer lifecycle, enhancing transparency, increasing loyalty, and driving revenue. 

Green Story partners with hundreds of leading brands, such as PANGAIA, thredUP, Rent the Runway, and Pact. Our global team of experts works to empower 1 billion people to know their impact and make choices that are better for the planet and the generations to come.

Commercial Consultant & Investor

Pavilion

Executive Member

Innovative and strategic Chief Revenue Officer with extensive experience in leading sales operations, driving profitable growth, and preparing businesses for successful acquisitions in the competitive European vacation rental market. 

At the helm of sales for one of Europe's largest vacation rental companies, I orchestrated the transformation of the business, culminating in its acquisition by OYO in 2019. 

Key Member of the Leadership team which realised a $120m+ profit for the business when we sold to Oyo within 3 years.

Specializing in crafting compelling value propositions, pioneering services, and forging strategic partnerships, I am adept at instilling high-performance cultures, integrating cutting-edge technologies, and implementing industry best practices to scale operations and enhance productivity. 

Passionate about driving SaaS businesses to new heights through visionary leadership and robust revenue-generation strategies.

Played a pivotal role in expanding At Leisure’s portfolio to 115,000 homes across Europe, successfully positioning the company for acquisition through sustained, profitable growth.

Engineered a robust value proposition and launched innovative services that differentiated sub-brands like Belvilla, DanCenter, Danland, and Traum-Ferienwohnungen in a crowded marketplace.

Orchestrated strategic partnerships that broadened market reach and drove substantial revenue increases, significantly contributing to the company's attractiveness for the acquisition by OYO.

Cultivated a culture of high performance within the sales team, fostering a climate of excellence that aligned with aggressive business goals and enhanced overall sales productivity.

Implemented advanced sales technologies and best practices that optimized performance and scalability, underpinning the company's rapid growth and operational efficiency.

Chief Sales & Revenue Officer

Jobrapido

Job Rapido is an AI-enabled Performance Marketing Platform, focused on the recruitment market with 100M users globally, and is a portfolio company of private equity firm, Symphony Technology Group.
I launched new revenue streams for the business that unlocked the value of its audience and prepared the business for strong growth, overseeing sales, account management, and marketing teams, and establishing a customer success function which significantly grew the value of sales from core customers.

Senior Vice President of Sales

HarrisHammond

Social Talent: I worked closely with the founders of Social Talent on the design and execution of a sales strategy that facilitated its growth from start-up to a leading platform for online training. I enjoy working with them as an advisor and active investor.
HR Office: following majority acquisition of Adver Online by USG People, I advised the business on the establishment of a structure to enable development and implementation of new software services into their client base, whilst strengthening sales performance of their existing business.

Director

Monster

As Managing Director of the Benelux business, I held full accountability for this 150-person, $80M business, and was a member of the European Management board. 
The business achieved strong top-line results during this period through development of adjacent market opportunities and development of new solutions-focused products, and made significant gains in profitability through leadership capability and operational excellence.

Managing Director Benelux

As European Head of Sales, I delivered strong double-digit growth, creating a new value proposition that was translated into robust sales strategy and local planning, and delivered via local leaders accountable for 600 Field and Telesales Account Managers.

European Sales Director

My remit expanded to transform sales performance and capability across Benelux and CEE markets, where I enabled all contact centres to meet challenging targets within three months.

Director Telesales Central Eastern Europe & Benelux

I grew the business 100% year-on-year, whilst increasing salesforce productivity by >40%, creating the largest telesales centre in Europe and one regarded as best practice.

Director Telesales Northern Region

CPM Nederland

Appointed to the Netherlands board, I drove significant bottom-line improvement, holding full P&L responsibility for a 180-person operation, with the centre winning the 2005 Nationale Contact Centre Awards.

Commercial Director

Mosaic

Responsible for managing the India offshoring business. Grew the business from one-man team, one centre and 25 seats to 12-strong team managing 4 companies, 7 sites and 550 seats in 3 months.
Owned and managed end-to-end relationship with telesales agencies in India including contractual terms, remuneration, incentives and clawbacks
Drove profitable volume sales for telecom, mobile and energy products for companies like Sainsburys and Orange
Remotely led the London-based client liaison departments
Managed operations for all campaigns - marketing briefs, targets, ROI, operator training, call scripts and product training
Built and ran business processes to ensure high quality, high revenue, low churn
Ensured effective management information systems were in place for on-time, accurate reporting
Promoted to run all the telemarketing operations in the UK, Canada, India and South Africa

Vice President Worldwide Outsourcing

CRO | CCO | CSO

Senior Commercial Executive with a passion for Sales and Sales Teams.
Led fast-growing sales teams (100%+ yoy) in the UK, India, Benelux
Experienced European leader - Benelux, UK, Nordics, DACH, Italy and Eastern Europe
Collaborative leader with a focus on driving high performance with a focus on data, playbooks and inspiring teams to realise their potential.
Natural, enthusiastic communicator with all stakeholders
Financially literate - forecasting, P&L, profitable growth and ROI analysis
Experience with Private Equity and Investors
Successfully exited an Axel Springer business in 2020

For over 20 years, I've been taking on sales targets and beating them - from selling space in phone books straight from university to running international, multi-channel sales and marketing teams. The most enjoyable part of my career has been working with groups of motivated individuals and transforming them into a winning team.

Since finishing my last full-time role, I've worked as an advisor and fractional CRO across Europe,  developing ambitious strategies and building sales organizations that drive growth and increase profitability.
Passionate about helping individuals and teams succeed.

MANERO

The mission is to tap into the potential of humankind, by eliminating the fears and limitations, been in place for many years. 

I had individual empowerment consultations that combined the mind-heart-body approach. It was always combined with work and personal life experiences, while sometimes there has been a pure business aspect. 

I have also been a co-author in a Book titled Intuitive - Speaking her truth and made talks regards the importance of understanding the human being aspect of who we are. 

It has been an amazing journey, steps have been made on this mission and I'm continuing it with contract-based coaching and consultations.

Independent Consultant

Tircom d.o.o.

- The first task was to organize the documents (The company just moved to a home office)
- This included revising, removing unnecessary documents and duplicates
- Set an order for every file to make it easy to find - a big increase in the productivity
- Transcribing and/or typing the words of the Director into emails, inquiries offers, and more
- Translation of texts to English, to communicate with foreign suppliers (sometimes even phone
conversations)
- Supporting the Director with needed information, creating reports, and submitting the information to the
government
- Ensuring that the delivery would go as planned

Office Administrator

Various companies

I have worked with several companies and/or individuals on different tasks including:
- different projects of market research (IoT, technical suppliers, specified materials, high-value servces, ...) 
-help with development of new program (user experience)
-consulting about sales and business opportunities in Slovenia
-Internet research
-data entry
-finding real estates (for rental, for sale)

Freelancer

JP Medical & Cosmetics

Assisting the launch of products on the Slovenian market.  It was a specialized product, offered on a Slovenian market for the fist time, that had to be marketed accordingly. 

My role in launching was to: 
- translate and SEO optimize the materials involved in the launch (product label, description, press release, marketing flyers,...)
- find the right specialized supliers and connect the company with them. 
- find bloggers and influencers to test and review the product
- find media companies that could and would post press releases with the launch
-report on success after the launch has been completed.

Freelance Translator and Product Launching

SPAR

-constant interaction with customers
-dealing with money (changing money, counting, specification of payments,...)
-work in a rush and long hours

Cashier

Lepotni salon Vita

-I helped in a beauty salon with different small tasks
-I have communicated with customers live and trough email (promotion)

Student Assistant

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