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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Martin Mackay

Partners in Excellence

I joined PeopleSoft in 1996 as the head of Product Marketing and Strategy for Europe. I remember my first $1m deal – at PeopleSoft in probably the year 2001. Having been the VP International Marketing for a couple of years, my boss at the time told me “It is time you had a real job” and gave me my first sales management role.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Andrea has led numerous sales initiatives and teams at enterprise software and solution providers, including Varolii, IBM, Symphony Technology Group, Vitria Technology, DigitalThink, and PeopleSoft. Alice Heiman – Founder at Alice Heiman LLC | Chief Networking Office at Sales 3.0.

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

After ADP, I got into the CRM space through companies like Vantive (bought by PeopleSoft). The power of your network is now more important than ever before – knowing innovative people who can deal with a very technical sale in a very technical environment, is really important.

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