Brent Holloway

Brent Holloway

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Sales Leader and Advisor | Sales Productivity Expert | Co-Author of Sales 2.0
California, United States

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  • Mastiff Software
    Founder
    Mastiff Software
    Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)
    Mastiff Software is the the business that provides the Sales Productivity + ICP Platform that was originated in our sister company, SaaS Sales Advisors. Designed for GTM leaders, our mission is to help companies grow faster and more efficiently with unique insights on what makes their GTM teams perform better. We do this with an analytics platform that leverages data enrichment, data science, and real world experience growing SaaS teams. Learn more at www.MastiffSoftware.com
  • UpdateAI
    Fractional Sales Leader (UpdateAI was acquired by Gainsight in July 2025)
    UpdateAI
    May 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 3 months)
  • SaaS Sales Advisors
    Founder
    SaaS Sales Advisors
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)
    We offer sales organization assessments, sales productivity solutions, quantified Ideal Customer Profiles by segment, sales playbooks, recruiting, and fractional sales leadership.
  • Stage  Capital
    Limited Partner, Stage 2 Capital Catalyst
    Stage Capital
    Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)
    The Stage 2 Capital Catalyst supports early stage B2B software companies in scaling their businesses by combining Venture Capital and Go-To-Market, empowering founders with hands-on coaching from an unrivaled network of go-to-market leaders.
  • Harness
    Vice President of Commercial Sales
    Harness
    Dec 2021 - Oct 2023 (1 year 11 months)
    Led the North America Commercial Sales team to 96% YoY growth in productivity per AE in FY23. Coached 5 of 9 Eligible Commercial AEs to exceed their FY23 quotas and all 5 went to President's Club in Bermuda. Promoted 6 SDRs to Commercial AE positions, along with 4 Commercial AEs to Sr. Commercial AE positions, and hired 7 AEs externally. Significantly improved the diversity on the sales team.
  • Talend
    VP Global Corporate Sales
    Talend
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2021 (7 years)
    I was fortunate to join Talend in January of 2015 and started with 5 Corporate/SMB AEs and 4 SDRs. We grew the team to 52 SMB AEs, 3 Sr. Directors, 7 front line managers, and 50+ SDRs over 7 years. We also grew Corporate Sales/SMB bookings from ~$2M in new ACV in 2015 to ~$20M in new ACV in 2021, and $70M in ARR. Talend's IPO was in 2016 and we went private via a $2.4B acquisition by Thoma Bravo in 2021.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Sr. Manager, Global Inside Sales
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Dec 2011 - Jan 2015 (3 years 2 months)
    I started with HP Fortify in December of 2011 as an Inside Sales Manager and was promoted to Sr. Manager, Worldwide Inside Sales for the HP Enterprise Security Products business in Nov. of 2012. I enjoyed working with great people and leading the growth of our Inside Sales organization to 55 quota carrying ISRs and 6 front line ISR managers worldwide with hubs in Sunnyvale, Colorado Springs, Singapore, and Bracknell (London).
  • Verint
    Director, Inside Sales
    Verint
    Jun 2007 - Nov 2011 (4 years 6 months)
    Led Inside and Hybrid Inside/Field sales teams of 8 to 10 people with a $16,000,000+ annual goal. Exceeded the team goal in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2010.
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    Inside Sales Manager
    Witness Systems
    Jan 2005 - Jun 2007 (2 years 6 months)
    Inside Sales Manager for the Inside and Hybrid Inside/Field Sales team which grew from 4 people to 12 people during this time period. Witness Systems was acquired by Verint Systems in June 2007.
  • B
    Inside Sales Manager
    Blue Pumpkin Software
    Aug 1997 - Jan 2005 (7 years 6 months)
    I started with Blue Pumpkin Software as the 12th employee as an Inside Sales rep in 1997, then held field sales and channel sales positions from 1999 until 2004 when I was promoted to manage the Inside Sales Team. Blue Pumpkin Software was acquired by Witness Systems in January 2005.
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  • Santa Clara University
    MBA
    Santa Clara University
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2005 (5 years)
    I completed my MBA from Santa Clara University while working full time.
  • UC Santa Barbara
    Bachelors, Biology / Biochemistry
    UC Santa Barbara
    Jan 1992 - Dec 1996 (5 years)
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    • Wiley
      Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology
      Wiley
      Dec 2008
      In Sales 2.0, authors Seley and Holloway demystify the emerging Sales 2.0 trend and provide a framework that business leaders and sales professionals can use to implement it in their organizations. They explore Sales 2.0 in practice and showcase four industry-leading companies currently using Sales 2.0 successfully and profitably. They show you how to align your sales resources with customer opportunities to create better sales force deployment and territory coverage.
    This is a community-created genome.