Kris Talajic

Kris Talajic

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Head of Sales, AMER
New York, United States

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  • Supabase
    Head of Sales, AMER
    Supabase
    Mar 2026 - Current (6 months)
  • Forbes Business Development Council
    Official Member
    Forbes Business Development Council
    Oct 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)
    Forbes Business Development Council is an exclusive, invitation-only organization for senior-level sales and business development executives. Members are distinguished leaders, chosen for their extensive experience and diverse expertise in driving business growth and development.
  • NXT Wave Consulting
    Founder
    NXT Wave Consulting
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)
    Go-To-Market, Reimagined.
  • Kubiyaai
    Global Vice President of Growth / Chief Revenue Officer
    Kubiyaai
    Jan 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 3 months)
    Kubiya is a developer automation platform built for enterprise engineering teams. I owned the full revenue function - sales, partnerships, forward deployment engineering, and customer success - scaling the business from early traction to named enterprise logos globally. Built and led the go-to-market org from the ground up, including a Forward Deployment Engineering team focused on accelerating customer time-to-value. Developed the channel and alliance ecosystem, ran complex enterprise sales cycles across automotive and logistics verticals, and architected the customer success framework driving retention and expansion. Notable customers: Volkswagen Group, Audi, A+E Networks, project44
  • Procurityai
    Advisory Board Member
    Procurityai
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 (3 years 1 month)
  • Livesight
    Advisory Board Member
    Livesight
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2026 (3 years 1 month)
  • Vi
    Vice President of Enterprise Sales
    Vi
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)
    Vi is an AI-powered platform helping large health organizations drive financial performance and improve member outcomes through predictive marketing, personalized engagement, and optimized paid media across the full member lifecycle. As VP of Enterprise Sales, I owned the commercial strategy for Vi's Healthcare vertical - working directly with C-suite stakeholders to define and execute GTM motion, land and expand enterprise accounts, and drive revenue growth across health plans, point solutions, wellness, and pharma. Notable customers: UnitedHealthcare, Optum, Tivity Health, Action Behavior Clinics
  • ArangoDB
    World Wide Director of International Business & Sales
    ArangoDB
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 1 month)
    As a World-Wide Sales Director at ArangoDB, I led a team of sales professionals across the globe in driving revenue growth and exceeding sales targets and reported directly to the CEO. I was responsible for developing and implementing effective sales strategies, fostering strong relationships with key clients, and identifying new business opportunities. Notable Customers include: JPMorganChase, Mercedes, HP, Deloitte, Accenture, Brex, Altana, Altair, Esri and many more. My role included negotiating and closing complex deals, leveraging data and technology to drive sales, and mentoring and developing team members to reach their full potential.
  • ArangoDB
    Enterprise Account Executive
    ArangoDB
    Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 10 months)
    As an Enterprise Account Executive, I was responsible for driving sales and revenue growth for the company by identifying and closing new business opportunities with enterprise-level clients. I served as a primary point of contact for key accounts, building and maintaining strong relationships with C-level executives and other key stakeholders. I successfully developed and implemented sales strategies tailored to each account and collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing and engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet the customer's needs overachieving quota quarter-after-quarter.
  • ArangoDB
    Sales Development
    ArangoDB
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 (4 months)
  • Philip Morris International
    Business Building Executive
    Philip Morris International
    Jul 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 2 months)
    "Smoke-free future" project catalyst
  • spotBe
    Sales Lead
    spotBe
    Apr 2017 - Jul 2017 (4 months)
    spotBe! is a startup platform that focuses on a network of public or private groups which are called Spots. Spots are made to help you organize, share materials (documents, pictures, tasks...) and work efficiently within an organization or a team. In short- it connects individuals, groups, teams and/or organizations and enables prompt business collaboration and communication without overloading your inbox or searching endless offline folders.
  • Matcha Goodness
    Head of Sales and Co-founder
    Matcha Goodness
    Aug 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 6 months)
    Matcha Goodness is a Croatian brand that was created by two ambitious students and their partners from South Korea. We are a Croatian brand of premium quality & organic certified 100% Matcha tea powder. Matcha Goodness deals directly with the Green Tea Institute of South Korea, therefore we are able to guarantee the highest quality of our products to our partners and clients. Responsibilities: • Generating new customers and boosting sales throughout Croatia • Involved in strategic decision making • Constantly building brand awareness • Market research, segmentation, and targeting • Providing financial reports • In charge of HoReCa clients and sales
  • Pattaya Bar Levan
    Owner
    Pattaya Bar Levan
    May 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year 6 months)
  • TDR doo Rovinj
    Sales and Marketing Intern
    TDR doo Rovinj
    May 2013 - Sep 2013 (5 months)
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • Stanford University
    Continuing Studies: Computer Science, Information Technology
    Stanford University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    Bachelor's degree, B.B.A.
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Hult International Business School
    Master of Science, M.I.B.
    Hult International Business School
    Scholarship: Entrepreneurial Impact Hult is the first U.S. business school to have achieved triple accreditation by the three most prestigious accrediting bodies: AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA.
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    Finalist of Hult Prize San Francisco campus
    "LEADING A GENERATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD" Hult Prize: a competition that aims to solve the world's most pressing challenges by putting together the brilliant minds of various students from around the world to solve them. Hult Prize 2019 Challenge: creating meaningful work for 10,000 young professionals within 10 years. My team's focus: Reducing poverty in third world countries by bringing quality, job-specific training to the underprivileged youth that would lead them towards gaining full-time meaningful jobs, through our learning platform "Listo"
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    20 Best Practices For Building Culturally Competent Leadership Teams - Expert Panel
    Forbes Mar
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    Scaling DevOps And Engineering Teams With AI Teammates
    Forbes Feb
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    Why Determinism Is The Missing Piece In Enterprise AI
    Forbes Sep
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