Thank you to our customers, ecosystem, and team
Team, wanted to thank you each of you for the good partnering, the good times, and the good outcomes we created together.
To our incredible SaaS, AI, and Technology Vertical customers from around the world - thank you for choosing us. It was humbling to earn, hear, and share, your stories: (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG3VAatOz36ncT4_BNNUby_x1YspZmczm)
Walid Abu-Hadba Dan Miller Andre Lafayette, Katie McCloskey, CPA Kristie Parker Stuart Langer John Medeiros Tony Rondonuwu Lance Moreno Winifer Cheng Mathias Karady Julie Choi Adams Aravinda Gollapudi Tom Jurasek John Shuster Dayna Hine @julie zhu @andrea ainsley and team - thank you for building a product that led G2, IDC, and The SaaS CFO Tech Stack Survey for close to a decade - a lifetime in tech. (One of my favorites: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7290418923945017344/)
Eric Kent Tom Maneloveg Bryan Herman ☁ Ben Goodrich Louise Murphy Kathleen Lord Eileen Wiens Christopher Coldren Anne Hofinga Quinton Lee John Dearlove Mark Spadorcia Randy Bennis Marlon Spencer Adi Levinson, all the other current and past Account Executives, and team - thank you for earning the business of the next generation of incredible SaaS, AI, and Technology companies. $80B of recent IPOs is a tremendous milestone to be proud of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrgaPKSt3g&list=PLG3VAatOz36ncT4_BNNUby_x1YspZmczm&index=1
Mark Wayman John Pflomm Robert Klein Greg Stone Taylor Brown David Messina Oksana Kamparosyan Aleks Karp Melody Williams and team - thank you for making the product come alive, particularly on swing voter issues, in demo after demo.
Ade Surrey Greg Ekker Amy Platt Paul Nathe and team - thank you for getting our customers live.
John Barrington Kirsty Waller Matthew J Zumwalt Melissa McQueen, MBA Lucia Nguyen Kyle Nordeen Tim Cheong Mervyn Alamgir Aristomenis Capogeannis Thomas Meyer Sergey Stepanov Robert Smith Ed Moores Renaud Chauvin Brittany Merolla Declan Hare Chris Gascoigne Chris Blaik @nick ezzo @sue auchincloss @rauli garcia and team - thank you for finding and attracting the next generation of incredible SaaS and AI companies to engage with us. Enough A/B tests for a lifetime ;). Being an early poster child for @6sense on how to truly make ABM work was a highlight.
Jesse Weber Alayna Stuck Germain Louie Marvin Fletcher Rogers and team - thank you for building incredible investor relationships so that we were a key component of their Value Creation Plans.
Amy Lawson Sarah Henderson Oliver Clark Nick Laurence Katie Bauersfeld Jennifer DeForest and team - thank you for the creativity on building and reinforcing a brand that demonstrated our competency and our values to fast-growth technology companies
Gordon Stuart Chip Mahan Timara Frassrand Kristina Olesko Gill Hall and team - thank you for a payment strategy that helped complete our billing workflow
Eduardo Rosini Michael Office Janu Debalathas and team - thank you for creating a repeatable, scalable routes-to-revenue model
Dominic Ballinger Piers de Gruchy, ACA Ditmir Xhaferi Prakash Punia Rory Howells and team - thank you for helping plan, fund, and forecast to drive great investor return
Keith Maldin Keith Robinson Michael Baccich and team - thank you for acquisitions that moved the needle and gave us an even more complete product stack
Michael Blanton Ben Collins Jürgen Utess Bill Fuesz Annette Grotz Joan Benson Nancy Master Brian Siefkes Rich Reimer Chad Wagner Jill Liliedahl and Brian Bogie - thank you for working together to build a world-class, game-changing Industry GTM model.
Aaron Harris David Dickson Kevin Adams Natalie Sweet Hilary Duffy and team - thank you for creating an innovative AI roadmap that supports, scales, and protects customers. It is where the puck is going.
Rahul Bakshi Josh Faylor Mike DiFrancesco Paul Andreson Joseph Sangiuolo Scott Hilson Derek Taylor Audra Weller Kate Crisci Kevin Brautigam Charlie McGillis Chris Fallon Marlaina Luciano James Mottashaw Rebbie Edmonds Rosalyn Curato Pablo Ciscomani and team - thank you for retaining, and growing, an incredible set of customers
Jude Philipneri Mark Jackson Lisa Gutch Alicia Judit, MBA Alicia Schober, MBA Alison Segalla Greg Allworth Rita Floyd Jacqueline Lickus Kyle Chouinard Dan Ruley and team - thank you for creating amazing, repeatable, effective playbooks that made our product and values shine.
Juha Harkonen Helen Kleytman Cameron Curles Nichole Prendergast Benny Chung and team - thank you for magnifying our reach through an incredible, aligned partner ecosystem.
To those ISV partners - thank you for helping us offer a complete finance tech stack for our customers. We truly brought the Crossbeam concept to life.
Pierre Dahbour Whitney Moore Nathan Peterson John Golly Joseph Micacchione Christopher Finn Lucas Brown Ben Colling Wanda Pansky and all of you incredible BDRs and SDRs - thank you for developing, or being part of, cohort after cohort of amazing SDRs that created a good first impression in the start of the sales cycle. It was where the magic started in every opportunity we won.
Nancy Sperry Peyton Burch Kent Hollrah Taylor Macdonald Bryan Parks John Hendrickson Sippora Veen Stuart Harrington Jack Arrix Raji Dhillon and team - thank you for creating and nurturing an incredible Channel that drove a significant portion of our growth. The passion, and innovation, shows just how powerful this community is.
To all of those VAR partners (so many to name)- thank you for building with us, we could not have done it without you.
Paul Struthers Paul O'Riordan Gary Charlton Kimberley Clay Daniel Paylor Sophie Lowrie Tom Atkinson Kate Butler Pooja Dey Jamie Pegden James Payne Sunil Kapur Fabiana Fattore Donna Ainslie Felix Ekman Neil Jones Simon Gallon Laura Lee Ruhul Moksud and team - thank you for creating a dominant business in the SaaS and technology market in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The London road shows, and QBRs, were some of my favorite.
Cinzia Bazzo Sohail Asif Edward Mortimer Gavin Kingshott John Garzouzi David Rumer Steve Ryujin and team - thank you for creating a great Canadian business, eh
Carlene Baskerville Justus Siage, CPA ☁️ and team - thank you for expanding our footprint in Australia/New Zealand. I am still coming down to Bondi.
Catherine Bui Jill Chamberlain and team - thank you for always being there for our customers. You were always there when we needed you.
Kara Manfredi (She/Her) Simon Le-Fevre Aaron Whitehouse and team - thank you for helping tell our customers' magnificent stories (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG3VAatOz36ncT4_BNNUby_x1YspZmczm)
Vicki Bradin Celeste Helms - thank you for helping wisely manage risk
Amy Reeves Cosgrove, SPHR Ailene Lee-Sutton, SPHR Ingrid Tran @amanda cusdin and team - thank you for helping plan, hire, and nurture a great team
Martin Phelps Tami Johnson and team - thank you for helping the analysts understand our story and having G2 represent our momentum. When you say you are #1 it is braggadocio, when the world's top experts say it, and 6,444 folks vote it, it is true: (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7107788778412376064/)
Diego Sanchez-Aparisi Moral Sandi Main Ryan Woodward Audrey Trinh Kevin Wallis, MBA Jon Daniel and team - thank you for great launches and message houses that captured attention and told a story. Seeing the sales KPIs go bright green after we would build consensus on ICP, then TAM, then launch Campaigns, was always a thing of beauty.
Ray Rike Ben Murray CJ Gustafson Alexander Theuma Will Brightling Guy Hutchinson Kiran Lingam Sam Jacobs Peter Nesbitt Daniel Gloede Tom Kirby David Spitz Todd Gardner Lauren Kelley and many, many others - thank you for building the SaaS finance community together. Watching the profession grow has been one of the most rewarding aspects of the job. ~5,000 folks have gone through The Modern SaaS Finance Academy (http://www.sageU.com/modernsaasfinance) since launch!
@chelsea stoner @byron deeter @jeff epstein @brian jacobs - Thank you for being a great Board of Directors in guiding those 2016 decisions on how to out-flank the competition. Those investments were the foundation for a durable legacy.
Steve Hare - thank you for your leadership
Derk Bleeker - thank you for your mentoring
Jonathan Cowan - thank you for your support
Mark Hickman - “Great Teams don’t just win, they win Championships”
Ian Howells - for first bringing me into Intacct and teaching me your lessons
Rob Reid Marc Linden Chris Rose - thank you for your support in our bold ideas to build our early momentum
Feyikemi O ERIC SLEETH - thank you for keeping that momentum into the future. The business is in capable, competent hands.
To anyone I missed, let me know and I will add you, it was purely accidental.
It was great to build an amazing business together.
Onto the next adventure.
Account Executive @ Sage | Customer Advocate | SAAS | ERP | AI | Accounting
3moIt has been a pleasure working with you! Best of luck in your next adventure!
Leading digital transformation
3moThanks for your incredible support. Your knowledge of SAAS businesses is unparalleled and has been so invaluable to us. On a personal note, it's been great getting to know you and professionally, you have challenged and developed us so thank you. You'll be missed - best of luck for whatever comes next!
Marketing Director UKIA, Sage
3moGreat to work with you David! Good luck for the future, keep up the wild swimming!
Content Production Lead at Sage | Content And Marketing Expert | Editor | Mentor | Talks about #business #sport #marketing #content
3moIt’s been great working with you David Appel - wishing you all the best for the future
Look forward to hearing about your next opportunity very soon indeed. Thank you for being an advocate for our partner community and making us all better in the process David!