Mark A. van de Griendt

Building a worldclass team, currently hiring in πŸ‡³πŸ‡± πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡±πŸ‡Ί & πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Utrecht Area

About

Accomplished global sales leader with a strong track record of driving hyper-growth, building high-performing go-to-market teams, and scaling early-stage technologies. Experienced across Europe and the US, with deep expertise in Cloud SaaS, GenAI, Data, Finance, Payments, MEDDICC, and strategic alliancesβ€”shaped by roles in hyper-growth leaders such as ServiceNow, Snowflake, Zscaler and now DeepL. Passionate about developing talent, creating winning cultures, and executing value-driven sales strategies that deliver results.

Experience

  • DeepL (Full-time Β· 7 mos)
    • Senior Sales Leader Benelux & Nordics
      Jul 2026 - Present Β· 1 mo

      At DeepL, we’re building on a history of turning complex challenges into real-world AI solutions. From our flagship AI translation and writing solutions, to our latest research and innovations, our focus continues to be creating intelligent technology that helps you get work done.Β Building the market in the Benelux and Nordics regions.

    • Seasoned Sales Leader, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg
      Jan 2026 - Present Β· 7 mos

      AI solutions that help you get work done Trusted by millions, our AI platform helps you accurately translate text, files, and voice, and the DeepL Agent helps you automate business tasks using simple language instructions.

  • Sales Director Strategic Accounts Benelux & Nordics at Zscaler
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 Β· 2 yrs

    Transforming Today and Tomorrow Leveraging the largest security cloud on the planet, Zscaler anticipates, secures, and simplifies the experience of doing business for the world's most established companies.

  • Regional Sales Director at Snowflake
    Jun 2021 - Dec 2023 Β· 2 yrs 7 mos

    Snowflake’s vision is a world with unlimited access to governed data, so every organization can tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies.

  • ServiceNow (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sales Director Enterprise
      Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 Β· 1 yr 6 mos

      ServiceNow is changing the way people work. By placing a service-oriented lens on the activities, tasks and processes that make up day-to-day work life, we help the modern enterprise operate faster, better and more scalable than ever before. As the enterprise cloud company, ServiceNow provides a service model that defines, structures and automates the flow of work, removing email and spreadsheets from the process to streamline the delivery of services. And nearly everything can be delivered β€˜as a service’ in ServiceNow. A system where people, across the enterprise, engage to get work done. To rapidly create new services, deliver the services at record pace, and more importantly – manage the services

    • Sales Director Commercial
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 Β· 2 yrs

      ServiceNow makes work, work better for people. Transform old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows, so employees and customers get what they need, when they need itβ€”fast, simple, easy. When people work better, business works better.

  • Vice President (interim) at 4me
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2017 Β· 9 mos