Rob Byssz

YOUR no BS growth partner, a C-level doer who steps in to fix execution, unlock growth, and bring back peace of mind for you

United Arab Emirates

About

I love this thought from Russ Foltz-Smith: there are only two activities in any business: making stuff and selling stuff. Even if you want to make stuff, you must at least sell yourself as someone who can make something that others will sell to their customers... In the end, he concludes there is only one main activity that a company must master to strive: selling stuff. In the end, when I look at why I wake up every day, I'm helping leaders and organizations sell their stuff and enable them to be successful. I have had the chance to travel and work with inspiring people on all continents. Together we successfully built business cases, designed business models, and refocused businesses so that my business Partners could achieve unprecedented impact with their offerings. The constant words in my professional career are B2B, Sales Marketing, and transformation. I have experienced so many times that a great team achieves more than a bunch of individuals that it made me the most significant believer in teamwork and a constant seeker of superb team players who know how to maintain their incredible energy. So far, the key to my success has been building organizations with strong cultures of commitment, innovation, and drive to succeed and still have fun. This always helped attract the best talents to the organization led by me. I love spreading excellent business practices and helping startup ideas grow and later scale.

Experience

  • GROWTh Engine Lead & CXO Co-Pilot at hTWORG
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    hTWORG is a no BS growth partner. We offer something simple: peace of mind. Not from another plan, but from knowing things are finally moving. We work side by side with CEOs and CROs to make the necessary changes happen, combining proven programs, tools, and C-level doers who’ve been in their seat.

  • Adjunct Lecturer and Advisory Board Member at CEU Executive MBA
    Feb 2018 - Aug 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos

    My subjects were B2B Sales and Marketing Growth, Leadership, and Succeeding in CEO, CRO, and CSO roles. I loved teaching them to the students coming from a total of 47 countries.

  • Personal goal pursuit at Career Break
    Nov 2022 - May 2023 · 7 mos

    After 9,5 years of intense transformation of all kinds of organizations all around the globe, it is time to stop and reflect. The primary focus is to look back and learn from transforming Philips, transitioning from a Hungarian sales leader to a global C-level transformation leader. I want to reflect on the experience from 70k+ employee companies and startups and scale-ups I worked with. I enjoy the freedom over my calendar and spending time with myself and my family, and I find it exciting to mentor a few companies and their leaders. I'm not searching for a job, but happy to assist if you are searching for someone, however it won't be me.

  • Group Head of Transformation and Standardization at Rohlik Group
    Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 mos

    Tried my wings in B2C business and in transforming the grocery business at one of the most successful Unicorns of the region. Gathered some great learnings about Unicorns and their leadership. It helped me realize my real passion lies in B2B business and not classic, transactional B2C. I'm extremely grateful for this almost 1 year of learning at Rohlik.

  • RotaChrom Technologies (1 yr 11 mos)
    • Member of the Supervisory Board - IAH Oregon LLC & RTKH Zrt.
      Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Being on this organization's supervisory board was an outstanding experience. The management team needed to test new markets and identify growth areas; this is where my expertise became beneficial. Supported the management board with my experience and knowledge while gathering some experience and learnings about how to add value to an organization from a board position. It was exceptional to experience how the board of directors operates in practice. Implemented a new prospecting approach, CRM, and bonus scheme with significant changes in all areas of Process, People, tooling, and data usage.

    • Chief Revenue Officer, Member of Board of Directors
      May 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

      I joined the company to enable global scaling of the tremendous success the company has achieved in North America and Canada. The challenge ahead of me and my team was to bring the knowledge we gathered with our dear Partners, Innovators, and Early Adopters in North America to all other Geographies. We want every country to access our unique technology, bringing great value and unprecedented throughput with unpaired sustainability measures. I'm proud of the success we have achieved with our Customers. Based on their feedback, we managed to pivot the company to the pharma industry, offering a highly disruptive new technology and go-to-market approach. I started as the Head of Scaling in sales and became the Global Leader Head of Sales and Marketing. I'm proud of what we have achieved with the team in repositioning the brand, identifying the next growth engine for the company, and designing the strategy leading the company to that field. We successfully merged the earlier completely separated sales and marketing approach and established a Digital First mindset in all touch-points with our Customers. After careful consideration implemented HubSpot and rebuilt sales and marketing collaboration around that tool.