René van Essen

Transforming Tech spend into Business Value with IBM APPTIO

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Experienced, people oriented and business result driven Senior Account Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. Strong sales professional skilled in solution selling, Coaching, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), IT Service Management, Data Center, Software and Account Management.

Experience

  • Senior Enterprise Sales Executive (BeNeLux) at Apptio, an IBM Company
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Business development

  • ServiceNow (Full-time · 4 yrs)
    • Sr Enterprise Account Executive Public Sector and Healthcare
      Jan 2022 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs

      Responsible for public sector in the Netherlands and the Healthcare sector.

    • Sr. Enterprise Account Manager Healthcare & Education at ServiceNow
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs

      Responsible for the Healthcare & Higher Education (Universiteiten) market in the Netherlands. Main focus on the UMC's en Universities in the Netherlands.

  • Strategic Account Executive Public Sector at Salesforce
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for the central government in the Netherlands. Min I&W, Min OC&W, NS, Schiphol, ProRail, LVNL, Kadaster, Rijkswaterstaat, CBR, RDW, KNMI, EPO. Helping customers with their digital transformation. Topics like customer experience (CX) and customer journeys, business intelligence and integration are on my daily agenda.

  • Vertical Director Healthcare at Huawei
    Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 · 11 mos

    Within Huawei I was responsable for the care and cure market for the EBG group. That means infrastructure, storage, servers and AI. The digital transformation has started in the Healthcare market. The cure market is changing fast now! I saw that recently also on the study trip to China we had with customers and partners. Current topics with customers are: Digital transformation impact, how can IA help?

  • Senior Account Executive Public Sector at Citrix
    Jul 2018 - Feb 2019 · 8 mos

    At Citrix...I am responsible for the Dutch Government. My goal at these customers is to help them with their digital transformation. With Citrix we provide them with a secure workplace so they can work at any place and on any device they want. We do that for about 300.000 workplaces right now.