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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Timeline
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AARON BOST

Head Of Sales
Sydney,Australia
AARON BOST

Summary

A strategic thinker with a knack for blending innovative tactics and a data-driven approach to surpass business goals. Professional Sales Manager with vital abilities in all things sales & strategy development. Delivers above-quota results through tenaciously built partnerships and impressive revenue-generating skills. Specializes in driving deep-tech industry success. Leverages a rich tenure as Account Director at GitHub, where an in-depth understanding of tech industry trends and challenges was obtained. Notably, transitioned to the web3 space, successfully pioneering the Business Development sector in a start-up environment. Recognized for building strategic partnerships, identifying new market opportunities, and leading high-performing teams.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
3
Languages

Work History

MUA DAO
Remote

Head of Business Development
01.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Developed Global Go-to-Market Strategy resulting in over $3MUSD in sales in a 7-month period
  • Designed and secured major partnership with Alibaba Cloud & Avalanche Blockchain resulting in MUA DAO being the sole service provider and ISV for offering Metaverse solutions to Alibaba Cloud’s Enterprise Clients
  • Sought and secured VC funding for Series A fundraising round including the Lead Investor for the round
  • Created and trained Alibaba Cloud Global Sales Team on providing Metaverse Services to their client base resulting in over 60 leads generated in a 2-month time period with $1MUSD of sales

Key Accomplishments:
• Worked with Governments of Hong Kong & Busan, South Korea to onboard them as multi-year clients for using the Metaverse
• Designed and secured industry breaking Partnership which saw MUA become the sole provider of Metaverse solutions for Alibaba Cloud Enterprise Client Portfolio (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/alibaba-cloud-avalanche-partner-to-deploy-metaverses-on-the-blockchain/)
• Managed & trained multi-national Sales Team to surpass sales target by 200% ($3 Million accrued on a $1 Million sales target)

Chainlink

User Success Manager (APAC)
03.2022 - 12.2022

Job overview

  • Managed over 200 accounts which covered more than $15 Billion USD in DeFi and grew Account Spend across the portfolio over $2.5 Million USD
  • Managed 4 Business Development Representatives globally and saw their quota attainment reach over 164% QoQ
  • Program Creator of ‘Chainlink Professional Services’ including, program ideation, service offerings, delivery & sales
  • Utilized customer feedback to inform changes and improvements to customer success plans.

Key Accomplishments:
• Designed and secured industry breaking partnership with SWIFT to use Web3 based technology for payment reconciliation
• Coordinated first Business Development and Community Event for Chainlink in Japan
• Developed Professional Services Program, deliverables and sales ‘playbook’

• Created and maintained extensive Customer Success documentation for internal/external use

GitHub

Account Director, AM Manager (APAC)
03.2018 - 01.2021

Job overview

  • Managed Accounts across the APAC region amassing over $75 Million USD in ARR resulting in a 98% retention rate and over $10M USD in ARR added in upsell and lowered the churn rate from 3.5% to 1.2% in 2 quarters
  • Promoted in 6 months to Management role which required hiring, training and being accountable for 3 Account Managers across the APAC region
  • This resulted in APAC being the most successful region for Account Management globally for 5 consecutive quarters
  • Sat on our ERG (Employee Resource Group) as the Senior
  • Leader and was responsible for a $850K budget with 42 members
  • Arranged annual summits and global workshops to advance ‘Black people in Tech,’
  • Planned and budgeted accurately to provide business with resources needed to operate smoothly

Key Accomplishments:
• Over 100% Quota Attainment across (6) halves (GitHub)
• Promoted to APAC AM Manager in 6 months’ time (GitHub)
• Trained & Managed Sales Team of (3) Direct Reports
• Highest performing region globally for Account Management for 5 consecutive quarters
• “Manager of the Year,” FY 2019

FUTRLI By Sage

Senior Strategic Advisor
12.2016 - 01.2018

Job overview

  • 360-degree role where clients where clients were given a true end-to-end service: leads generated, clients onboarded & continual Account Management was provided
  • Created a book of business that started at nothing and ended up amassing over $67,500 MRR in a 6-month period resulting in being top rep globally
  • Closed international advisory deals with PWC, KPMG & EY resulting in over 350% quota attainment for FY2017

Key Accomplishments:

  • $65,000 MRR creation in a 6-month period
  • First $1 Million deal closed globally

PhoneUsToday

Lead Business Development Manager
01.2015 - 12.2016

Job overview

  • Created cold-calling campaigns for 6 Sales reps resulting in an average of $51,000 a week in sales for a period of overweeks in a row
  • Maintained a portfolio of over 3,800 clients, resulting in a renewal rate & an expansion of the portfolio of about in an 18-month period
  • Closed the largest single deal of $22,000 & produced the largest weekly total as a single rep of $33,800

Education

Culinary Institute of America
Washington DC

Certificate of Culinary Arts from Culinary Arts
02.2009 - 06.2009

Skills

New Business Development

Strategic planning

Creation of sales comp structures

Product and service sales

Account and territory management

Performance metrics

Staff Management

Sales pipeline management

Prospect targeting

Relationship building and management

Budget forecasting

Salesforce

Leadership

Accomplishments

  • SXSW Sydney Panel Speaker
  • "Manager of the Year" in FY 2019. (GitHub)
  • President's Club: 2018, 2019, 2020 (GitHub)
  • ERG Executive Leader (GitHub)

Timeline

Head of Business Development

MUA DAO
01.2023 - Current

User Success Manager (APAC)

Chainlink
03.2022 - 12.2022

Account Director, AM Manager (APAC)

GitHub
03.2018 - 01.2021

Senior Strategic Advisor

FUTRLI By Sage
12.2016 - 01.2018

Lead Business Development Manager

PhoneUsToday
01.2015 - 12.2016

Culinary Institute of America

Certificate of Culinary Arts from Culinary Arts
02.2009 - 06.2009
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