Guro Bergan

Guro Bergan

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VP EMEA Sales
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  • honeycombio
    VP EMEA Sales
    honeycombio
    Jan 2026 - Current (9 months)
    Honeycomb.io is the observability platform built for what comes next.
    We store all telemetry signals in one place, delivering industry leading performance and unlimited insights into production environments. Our AI-assisted investigations reduce debugging time from hours to seconds, empowering engineering teams to ship with confidence.

    As VP Sales EMEA, I lead our regional sales organisation in helping tech led companies adopt modern observability practices. I work closely with customers and partners across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to scale our go-to-market strategy, build high performing teams, and drive sustainable grow
  • Tech Operators
    Co-founder, Board Member, Investor, Advisor
    Tech Operators
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)
    Tech Operators is a network of experienced industry executives and founders who advise, connect and invest in ambitious Irish startups, to help them accelerate their international growth.

    Along with three others, I brought Tech Operators from idea to realisation. We now have a network of 30 people who come together twice per quarter to invest in and provide advice to Irish start-ups. To date, over 30% of the companies that pitch to us end up closing an investment deal.
  • Fivetran
    VP and GM EMEA
    Fivetran
    Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 (2 years 3 months)
    Fivetran is the automated data movement platform that moves data across the business, regardless of where it lives - on premises, the cloud or a bit of both.
  • New Relic Inc
    VP of Sales Acceleration, Execution and Strategy - Global
    New Relic Inc
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 3 months)
    The right hand of the CRO, responsible for defining and executing Global GTM strategy as we moved to Consumption, grew upmarket to Enterprise and rolled out PLG.
  • New Relic Inc
    Senior Director Solution Consulting
    New Relic Inc
    Oct 2018 - Oct 2020 (2 years 1 month)
    At New Relic I lead an organisation of talented Solution Engineers and Solution Consultants, responsible for working with customers and prospects to advise them on how the New Relic platform could help them in their digital growth.
  • Oracle
    Senior Sales Director Consulting Services
    Oracle
    Jun 2015 - Oct 2018 (3 years 5 months)
    Lead an EMEA wide team responsible for breaking into the mid-market for Oracle Consulting Services. Grew the business from $0 to $23M.
  • ServiceSource
    Senior Director, Global Professional Services
    ServiceSource
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)
    Lead a global team responsible for designing and rolling out our SaaS Customer Lifecycle solutions to external customers as well as our internal teams. The team comprised of business analysts, solution architects, project managers, developers and data engineers based across North America, Europe and AsiaPac.

    - Work with clients and internal stakeholders to design a solution that is fit for purpose and will enable increased performance.
    - Establish scalable and repeatable designs, processes and tools to drive faster, cheaper and more successful implementations with positive margins.
    - Requirements, configuration, testing and training of Customer Lifecycle and Customer Relationship solutions.
    - Automation of
  • ServiceSource
    Director of Global Professional Services
    ServiceSource
    Mar 2010 - Dec 2014 (4 years 10 months)
    Fastest promoted employee worldwide.
    Only woman globally to make it from Sales Rep to Director.

    Grow enterprise IT clients' recurring revenue through
    - Implementation of cloud solutions for business optimization
    - Transformation and automation of business processes
    - Integration of databases and standardization of data to make it a valuable asset

    Lead an international team of project managers, data & business analysts and solution architects.
  • ServiceSource
    Manager of Solutions
    ServiceSource
    Sep 2008 - Mar 2010 (1 year 7 months)
    Management of 20+ CRM implementations across a user base of over 300 people.
    Design and implementation of various cloud applications, including Quoting tools, Channel Portals and Sales Performance Dashboards.

    - Lead stakeholders through their business transformation and technology implementation
    - Create and Manage project documentation including detailed project plans, Scope, Flight Plans, Milestone Reports and Scorecards
    - Create Business Requirements Documents, Functional Specifications and Test Scripts
    - Act as an intermediary between developers and users
    - Ensure adoption and realization of value through change management
  • ServiceSource
    Sales Manager
    ServiceSource
    Dec 2007 - Sep 2008 (10 months)
    Promoted to Sales Manager after only 10 months as Team Lead, despite guidelines of minimum 2 years.

    Lead 20+ Sales Reps across multiple teams growing recurring revenue for our clients in the High Tech industry.
    - Motivation, training and process improvement
    - Talent Development
    - Forecasting with accuracy within 3% points
    - Team and individual target setting
    - Management of client relationships and strategic alignment
  • ServiceSource
    Team Lead
    ServiceSource
    Aug 2006 - Dec 2007 (1 year 5 months)
    Promoted at first available promotion cycle, after only 7 months as Senior Sales Representative.

    - Help team with day to day tasks
    - Act as point of escalation for client
    - Assist Sales Manager in setting targets and forecasting
    - Assist Sales Manager in driving team performance and revenue through motivation, talent development and process improvement.
    - Carry own territory with individual quota on top of total team targets
    - Train new hires
  • ServiceSource
    Senior Sales Representative
    ServiceSource
    Feb 2006 - Aug 2006 (7 months)
    Record breaking promotion after only 5 months and while on probation.

    - Grow service share on behalf of one particular client in EMEA.
    - Carry individual sales target.
    - Train new hires
    - Assist Team Lead in improving processes to increase efficiency.
    - Assist team with day to day tasks and help solve problems
    - Assist Team Lead with forecasting and team motivation
  • ServiceSource
    Sales Representative
    ServiceSource
    Oct 2005 - Feb 2006 (5 months)
    - Grow service share on behalf of our largest IT client
    - Carry individual sales target
    - Forecast against own territory
    - Train new hires
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    BA of Hons, E4: Comerciales Internacionales
    Comillas Pontifical University
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005 (2 years 1 month)
    The second part of my double degree from DCU in Dublin and ICADE (Ponticia Comillas) in Madrid.

    The degree was a four year BA (Hons) in two universities and two languages, in conjunction with the International Partnership of Business Schools (IPBS).

    Graduated with Honours in International Finance and Business Strategy.
  • Dublin City University
    BA of Hons, European Business with Spanish
    Dublin City University
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years 1 month)
    Graduated with Honours in International Finance and Business Strategy.
  • S
    IB, International Baccaleaurate in English
    Sandefjord VGS
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2001 (2 years 1 month)
    Graduated second best in class with 39 points out of maximum 45.
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