Sales Individual & Team Awards Judging Committee
Chair: 
Mario Martinez Jr., Founder & CEO
Vengreso, Inc., Walnut Creek, California, United States
Mario is the CEO and Co-founder of Vengreso - the creators of FlyMSG, the AI All-inOne Productivity Assistant helping professionals save 1-hour a day in lost productivity by storing, organizing, typing and writing for you. He spent 106 consecutive quarters in B2B Sales, Marketing, and Executive Leadership roles, growing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue annually.
In 2023, he was named Most Influential CEO in the Software Solutions category by CEO Monthly, and he was also named to the #1 spot in the Top 10 Most Influential Business Leaders by Beyond Magazine in 2021. Most notably, he was one of 20 sales influencers invited to appear in the Salesforce.com documentary film “The Story of Sales”. He was named one of the Top 10 Sales Influencers by The Modern Sales Magazine, Top 25 Most Influential Inside Sales Professionals, Selling Power Magazine’s Top Sales Training and Coaching Consultant, and was recognized as one of the top Social Media Leaders by The Social Shake Up.
As a renowned sales influencer, Mario teaches marketing and sales professionals how to develop an engaging personal brand to attract today’s modern buyers using the digital sales ecosystem. Mario is the host of the popular The Modern Selling Podcast. He’s been featured in Forbes, INC., Entrepreneur, and was formerly a contributor to the Huffington Post. He’s a highly sought-after Keynote Speaker with brands such as LinkedIn, Cisco, and many more. He is also known to open a speech with a Salsa dance. Follow him on YouTube, LinkedIn, on Twitter, or view his website at https://vengreso.com.
Committee:
Carol Adetona, Adviser Oil Spills Compensation
Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
Carol Adetona works with Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited. She is a trained Mediator and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators. Carol holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Studies and a Diploma in Public Relations from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, UK.
Samet Aldemir, Training Professional & Project Manager
Vestel Retail Academy, Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey
Samet Aldemir holds a master's degree in Human Resource Management from Yıldız Technical University's Department of Business Administration. He has a total of 10 years of working experience. He currently works as a Training Professional and Project Manager at Vestel Retail Academy.
Sampath Amatam, Director, Mainframe Modernization
Avanade Inc., Irving, Texas, United States
Sampath completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from India. He has 14 years of experience in Mainframe Modernization. He is the Director of Mainframe Modernization at Avanade Inc. He helps clients from North America and Europe understand the importance of Mainframe Migration, GenAI in Mainframe Modernization, savings, timelines, and project estimations.
Gopinath Balakrishnan, Cloud Architect
Google, San Francisco, California, United States
Gopinath is a Cloud Architect and enthusiastic technology advisor with 20+ years of experience in building software/hardware technology products, distributed systems, and cloud platforms. He provides strategic and technical consulting and systems engineering for several small/medium enterprises and has led several key proof-of-concept projects towards new product development, architecture, design, and migrations.
Loren Brockhouse, Chief Revenue Officer
BigHand, Grimes, Iowa, United States
Loren's goal is to build the most respected consultative revenue team in the Legal Tech space by incorporating processes and strategies built around Empathy, Social Selling, Why Statements, Strength Finders. His specialty is to build an exceptional culture that attracts and retains the best professionals, motivating them to get one degree better each day.
Jean-Baptiste Coger, Cofounder and Chief Product Officer
Plato, Covina, California, United States
Gurjinder Dhaliwal, Head of Growth
AutogenAI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Growth business management expert Gurjinder Dhaliwal, Head of Growth at AutogenAI, secured >$60m in investment within four months. Previously at Tortoise Media he developed a pioneering membership model which earned him a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. He studied International Politics at King's College London and UC Berkeley.
Chris French, Founder and CEO
Incrementiqs, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chris French is the founder of the growth consulting company IncrementIQs. He has more than 25 years of sales and customer relationship executive experience in growing technology companies, most recently as the EVP, Customer Strategy at Workhuman.
Wilson Huang, Chief Revenue Officer
ATMOSIScience, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Wilson Huang, with over 8 years of experience in American startups, leads Go-to-Market at ATMOSIScience, a material humidity control company. He has a diverse background in entrepreneurship, legal, and sales, and studied entrepreneurial sales at MIT Sloan. Wilson also shared his insights as a speaker at the Wharton China Forum.
Fred Kessler, Chief Sales Officer
Sales Partnerships, Inc, Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Prashant Mahajan, CEO
Zeda.io, San Francisco, California, United States
Prashant Mahajan is the CEO and founder of Zeda.io, a Product Management platform. He has also been in the tech industry for 10+ years, building products that have generated more than $10M revenue and 50M users. His passion is new business ideas and product management.
Sneha Mathew, Strategy & Operations
Google, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Sneha is a Strategy and Operations expert in the tech industry, leading Scaled Partnerships Strategy at Google Play. She was previously the Director of Strategy and Operations at Better.com. She focuses on sales operations innovation and go-to-market strategy with respect to direct-to-consumer and marketplace business models. She is also a mentor at startup accelerators.
Scott McArthur, Senior Sales Executive
Raydiant Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Meet Scott, the dynamic force behind Raydiant's sales success and the visionary Founder & CEO of American Survivalist. Hailing from Boston, his innovative strategies have reshaped industries. With a decade of pioneering leadership, Scott consistently exceeds targets, embodying excellence in sales and entrepreneurship.
Jason McNeil, Director of Business Development
Sales Partnerships, Inc, Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Jason is a Director of Business Development at Sales Partnerships, Inc., a contract sales organization that delivers exceptional results for their clients through best practices in sales recruitment, training, management, quality assurance, and technology. Jason has over 20 years of experience in direct sales, sales outsourcing, and sales consulting.
Trupti Mohite, Executive Sales Account Manager
Synopsys, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Trupti has over 15 years of industry experience in engineering, customer success, product management, and sales. She currently works as an Executive Sales Account Manager in the semiconductor industry. She has a bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering and an Executive MBA from UCLA.
Bharat Nadga, Director, Strategic Partnerships
DoorDash, Bay Area, California, United States
Bharat Nagda has been the Director of Strategic Partnerships at DoorDash since 2021. Prior to DoorDash, he was a strategy consultant, helping large global corporations with partnership strategy and excellence, sales strategy, and business development. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan after graduating from IIT Bombay.
Rajeev Natarajan, Senior Manager, Decision Analytics
The Home Depot, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Rajeev is an analytics leader with over 16 years of experience in diverse industries. He specializes in eCommerce analytics, where he has created numerous measurement frameworks and actionable insights that span the end-to-end spectrum of retail business.
Ketan Patel, Chief Operating Officer
HANDLE Global, Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Ketan is the Chief Operating Executive of Handle Global, a Healthcare Tech Company. Ketan's career has spanned over 20 years in which he has delivered value via Executive Strategy, Operational Acumen, and Business Process Optimization. Ketan holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville.
Kongkitti Pradit, Commercial Director
Oasiz, Seagroup, Bangkok, Thailand
Kongkitti is a Certified Machine Learning Specialist, Engineer, and Financial Advisor. He brings a wealth of expertise with over 9 years in management roles. His focus has spanned across product, commercial, operations, and technical aspects within tech startups, e-commerce, and management consulting sectors. He excels at leading diverse cross-functional teams and encompassing products.
Manas Srivastava, Senior Customer Engineer
Google, Mill Creek, Washington, United States
Manas is a seasoned technical architect with more than 17 years of experience, currently working for Google. He has assisted numerous customers in modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure and transitioning to the cloud. He holds an Executive MBA from IMT and an Engineering degree in Electronics from India.
James J. Talerico, Jr CMC CBE, Founder & CEO
Greater Prairie Business Consulting, Irving, Texas, United States
James is an award-winning author, speaker, and small- to mid-sized (SMB) business expert. With more than thirty years of diversified business experience, Jim has a track record and an A+ BBB rating, helping thousands of business owners across the US and Canada tackle tough business problems to improve the performance of their organizations.
Steve Watt, Director, Market Insights & Social Selling
SME Seismic Software, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Steve is Seismic’s social selling subject matter expert. He works with companies across industries to plan, launch, enable, and measure high-impact social selling programs. He was an early employee at LinkedIn and has been a social selling and digital engagement practitioner, writer, podcaster, and educator for more than a decade.