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.

Digital Silk - Growing Brands Online

As a COO at Digital Silk, oversee 16 direct delivery teams and delivery managers with a total of 100+ delivery members 

Oversee execution of complex digital projects, delivered successfully over 400 client projects.

- Strategic Leadership.

- Operational Excellence.

- Team Empowerment.

- Budget and Profitability Management.

- Process improvement and change implementation.

Key Results:

✓ Successful delivery of high-complexity projects for Fortune 500 companies

✓ Reduced project delivery time by 30-70%.

✓ Implemented custom project management framework, and reporting, increasing project success rate by making overbudget projects extinct.

✓ Worked through company growth from 30 to 180 members, and grew project delivery bandwidth by 15x.

✓ Maintained high employee satisfaction and fostered innovation.

✓ Improved client satisfaction and zero major project escalations.

As a Head of the Project Management department, I am involved in interviewing and evaluating Project Managers, and training and supporting teams so they may reach their full potential. 

I develop and document PM processes and ensure they are being brought to execution. I solve issues that arise during project development and make sure:  

1. They are completed within a given timeframe. 

2. Come in within budget. 

3. Done to high-quality standards. 

Delivering such projects while preventing teams from burning out in these challenging times, is what I set as my main priority.

Head Of Project Management

In Centar

I led and oversaw the work of 70+ start-ups advising them on how to achieve growth and revenue. 

I helped young entrepreneurs turn ideas to venture by developing strategies and providing advice in decision-making.    

Creating business plans, cost structure, introductions to potential customers, executive guidance, digital strategy, digital marketing, putting internal processes in place, helping teams organize their outsourcing efforts, and investment readiness are all the skills I’ve used to skyrocket start-ups' success. 

As a result, a couple of them managed to raise multi million $ in valuations in the pre-seed phase.

Startup Mentor

Sportifico

I am a founder of Sportifico app - a place where we aspire to help young athletes pursue their professional careers. So far, we have connected 1000+ coaches from Germany, China, Serbia, the US, and others with more than 15.000 talented male and female players across the globe. Driven by the success of our athletes, we continue to grow!  

As a young self-financed entrepreneur, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into my vision. I created a business plan to support my idea and then gathered a team of motivated and skilled individuals who believed in my vision. Under my leadership,  Sportifico succeeded in executing the best sports PR campaign for Adidas (Adidas Team of the Season Sportifico Talents) ever done in the entire Adria region providing more than a 400X return on investment.

Founder & CEO 

Ondo

I created business plans which brought products to execution and followed their growth during all stages of Product Lifecycle. 

I gathered and analyzed customer requirements, defined product vision and worked closely with engineers, sales and marketing to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction. 

Under my leadership, we created 50+ websites which increased our clients’ revenue by even 60%.  

This resulted in customer satisfaction leading to an increase in number of clients we cooperated with as well.

Product Manager & Business Developer

Enovativ

Co-Founder, Product & Business Development 

Co-Founder, Web Designer / Full-stack developer

COO @ Digital Silk || Mentor | Entrepreneur | Athlete | Learner

Entrepreneur, Strategist, Project Manager, and all-round Business Executive who is passionate about making project ideas come to life. 

Building products is Lego for grownups.

For over 10+ years I’ve been growing my skills in business strategy, branding, strategic sourcing and team management.


I have also created and exited with an app called Sportifico - We helped young athletes pursue their professional careers. Read what Entrepreneur.com said about it https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/6-niche-social-media-networks-changing-the-ways-we-connect/317173 

The app has received 1000+ positive reviews from coaches and players coming from Germany, the US, Serbia, China, and many more. 

My specialties: project management, growing brands online, team management, website development, digital strategy and scaling up the business.


Outside of work, I aspire to bring the world of business and project management closer to anyone with a growing interest in this field. 

This is how I wish to share the knowledge and experience I've collected in my career so far. 

Need advice on growing your business online? Let's connect.

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