Edward Kenna

Interim CRO

AgencyBloc

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025 (6 months)

AgencyBloc is the #1 recommended growth platform for the insurance industry, serving 6,500+ independent life and health insurance agencies, IMOs/FMOs, and carriers. Backed by Resurgens Technology Partners.

Served as Interim CRO during a leadership transition, owning sales, marketing, and customer success — a combined organization of ~40 people, including BDR and sales operations — while permanent leadership was recruited.

Interim CRO

Detechtion Technologies

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 (9 months)

Served as Interim CRO during the first year of RTP's ownership, rebuilding the GTM function from scratch — sales and marketing diagnostic, territory and ICP design, MEDDPICC and forecasting cadence, comp and quota redesign, and messaging overhaul — and hiring permanent VP Sales and VP Marketing leadership. Software bookings nearly doubled within twelve months.

Board Member

Detechtion Technologies

Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 5 months)

Detechtion offers a complementary suite of products including remote asset monitoring, asset performance management, and field service management technologies which enable the world’s leading oil & gas producers and oilfield service providers to drive higher levels of uptime, throughput, and efficiency in their field operations. Backed by Resurgens Technology Partners.

Operating Principal

Resurgens Technology Partners

Oct 2020 - Current (6 years 1 month)

Resurgens is a tech-focused private equity firm investing in North American and select European low middle-market application and IT/infrastructure technology businesses.

As an Operating Principal, I partner with CEOs and executive teams across the portfolio to accelerate growth — leading value creation plan (VCP) development, GTM strategy, executive hiring, and M&A integration.

The bulk of my work has centered on building, scaling, and turning around B2B SaaS revenue organizations. Across nine portfolio companies, I've worked across the full spectrum of direct GTM motions including two interim CRO roles at Detechtion and AgencyBloc:
• High-velocity inside sales (~$4K ACV, sub-60-day cycles): Breezeway, AgencyBloc

Operating Experience – Enterprise Software

Raptor Technologies LLC

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 (5 years)

Raptor is a private equity-backed enterprise SaaS company that provides school safety software to over 34,000 K-12 schools in the U.S. in 2020. Founded in 2002, Raptor was acquired via Search Fund in 2012, recapitalized first by JMI Equity in 2018 and again by JMI and Thoma Bravo in 2021.

At Raptor, Edward held various roles in strategy, finance, marketing, sales operations and sales management, including leading Raptor's sales development and inside sales organizations, which were responsible for delivering more than a third of new software bookings each year.

Director of Inside Sales

Raptor Technologies

Jan 2016 - Dec 2020 (5 years)

Raptor is a private equity-backed enterprise SaaS company that provides school safety software to 34,000+ K-12 schools in the U.S. Founded in 2002, Raptor was acquired via Search Fund in 2012, recapitalized by JMI Equity in 2018 and again by JMI and Thoma Bravo in 2021, and acquired by Warburg Pincus for $1.8 billion in late 2025. ARR tripled to roughly $25M during my four years at the company.

I ran inside sales at Raptor — 14 direct and indirect reports across sales and sales development. Six territory-based AEs sold to school districts; two inbound reps closed individual schools; five SDRs and a SDR manager supported the AE team. Combined, the teams closed 1,300+ deals per year. During the time I ran the team, we booked $3M+ i

Investment Banking – Technology

Stephens

Jan 2012 - Dec 2016 (5 years)

Largest privately owned full-service investment bank in the U.S. employing over 1,200 people in 27 cities with 170 investment bankers worldwide in 2016. Stephens focuses on middle-market companies with $25M – $1Bn in revenue.

Promoted from Analyst to Associate in 2015 and relocated to San Francisco to focus on the M2M (machine-to-machine) and IoT sector — covering enterprise hardware, middleware, and SaaS software companies. Led origination and diligence on three buy-side engagements for Sierra Wireless (NYSE: SWIR), a public IoT hardware company evaluating mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) software targets including Wireless Logic, Raco Wireless, and KORE Telematics.

Across four years, executed $4.8B of M&A and c

Investment Banking – Enterprise Software

Stephens Inc

Jan 2012 - Dec 2016 (5 years)

Largest privately owned full-service investment bank in the U.S. employing over 1,200 people in 27 cities with 170 investment bankers worldwide in 2016. Stephens focuses on middle-market companies with $25M – $1Bn in revenue.

At Stephens, Edward executed both sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions and capital raises in several industries including Enterprise Software, Industrial Distribution, Specialty Finance, and Auto Retail.

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