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Revenue Director · BDR · Cape Town
B2B SaaS · 8 years of sales experience
Sales and revenue leader with over 8 years building, scaling and leading B2B sales across SaaS, technology and professional services. He moved from B2C to B2B, and from South African clients to international ones across the UK, US, Europe and Canada. Owns outbound strategy, pipeline, coaching and revenue — and has hired, onboarded and coached SDRs, BDRs, AEs and sales managers.
Employer names are in the full packet, which we send when you request an interview. Several roles overlap with the consultancy he co-founded. Tenures longer than two years are marked.
Best aligned to new-business seats in SaaS and technology, and to player-coach roles where he sells and builds the team.
Eight things, each backed by a number or a specific example from the interview and CV. This profile was scored before we added the Verified / Candidate-stated labels, so the figures here are as he stated them and are confirmed at reference before offer.
Strong attainment signal. He described a target of five meetings a week with three attendees and two closes, and explained how raising his activity lifted results above that baseline. The CV shows ownership of revenue, pipeline and full-cycle outcomes across several B2B SaaS roles.
Very strong. He has sold SaaS, a Microsoft partner programme, construction software and advisory solutions across enterprise and mid-market, to founders, C-level stakeholders, agencies and executive buyers. Cycles ran from about one month to three or four months depending on the product.
Excellent prospecting discipline. Layered outreach across LinkedIn, email and calling; researches trigger events, maps three or more decision-makers per account and tailors the message to the person and the company.
Good evidence of responding to feedback on activity. He moved from 50–60 calls a day to 80–100 when asked, adopted the higher-activity model and saw it turn into better connection rates and more meetings.
Highly articulate and structured. He explains sales strategy, discovery logic, outreach philosophy and leadership style clearly and with strong commercial fluency.
Strong SaaS and tech relevance. He has worked across advertising technology, construction software, digital marketing, HR and learning, cyber security and enterprise advisory, with a clear understanding of personas, trigger points and pain signals.
Recent roles are shorter and varied, though they show progression across high-growth, international B2B environments. He also co-founded a consultancy, which adds coherence to the wider commercial story.
High initiative and ownership mindset. Open across start-up and corporate environments, values learning, and comes across as commercially mature and growth-focused.
As the first South African hire for a Canadian construction-software company, he hit his sales target inside the first three months, then hired and coached the sales team and redesigned the whole sales process with the general manager. By his account the team did not miss target for three consecutive quarters, and the training he built kept being used after he left.
Every hire through HireSales comes with a coaching plan like this in your manager's hands on day one, plus a 30-day check-in.
Since 2022 the record shows several roles of four to fourteen months, some overlapping, next to a consultancy he co-founded in 2023 and which a partner now runs day to day. None of this is hidden — he explains each move — but a hiring manager should ask about the next three years: what would keep him in a seat, and how the consultancy sits alongside a full-time role.
Also validate at interview: the five-meetings-a-week target and what he booked and closed against it over his last two quarters in a seat · the size of the teams he led and for how long · which roles ran at the same time between 2023 and 2026.
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