Roland Scholer

Regional Sales Director - @ Splunk Switzerland

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Splunk (Switzerland)
    • Regional Sales Director - Switzerland
      Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

      Lead a Sales Team of highly motivated individuals, with the objective to develop and grow our business in the Romandie, as well as the Swiss German speaking part of Switzerland. Drive Adoption and Value Realization of Splunk's leading Security and Observability Platform securing Operational Resilience within our ever-growing customer base and win over prospects who have not yet uncovered the power of Splunk in the new era of AI, Cloud, Digitalization and Business Resilience.

    • Regional Sales Manager - Switzerland
      Aug 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Seek to help our valued customers unleash the power of Splunk and help them solve their toughest IT, Security and Business Challenges by turning their Data into Action. Splunk delivers the fastest path from Data to business insights and outcomes.

  • Dell EMC (Zurich, Switzerland)
    • District Sales Manager - Enterprise Preferred
      May 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Lead a newly created Sales Team focused on Enterprise Accounts in Switzerland, with the objective to develop and grow our business from an overall Dell Technologies Group perspective. Take share from our key competitors in the sector and fuel the top line growth of Dell EMC.

    • Senior Account Executive
      Jan 2001 - Apr 2018 · 17 yrs 4 mos

      Account Executive Sell to and Consult the Pharma and Manufacturing Industry on a wide variety of Information Technology Solutions and Services related to IT Transformatiion (ITaaS), Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS), Converged and Hyper-coverged Infrastructure, Storage & Data Protection, Software Defined DC, Software Defined Storage, Storage Resource Manangement, Server & Storage Virtualisation, Information Security, ITSM practices, Enterprise Content Mgmt, as well as Digital Transformation. Support major customers in defining and deploying their cloud strategy (private, public & hybrid), as well as engaging with them on major transformational projects that affect their people, processes and platforms. Teaming with global SI's and SP's in the delivery and execution of such global programs moving them from the 2nd to the 3rd Platform

  • Corporate Account Manager at TDC Switzerland AG
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2000 · 1 yr

    Corporate Acccount Manager - Sold Fixed, Mobile and Data Services to the Top 50 -100 Key Accounts in CH

  • International Sales Manager at Swatch Group Ltd.
    Jan 1993 - Dec 1999 · 7 yrs

    Held various positions within Swatch Telecom AG starting with Logistcis Manager, Regional Sales Manager EMEA and International Sales Manager (USA) Was responsible for Business Development, Marketing & Sales of a range of telco consumer electronic goods distributed under the "Swatch" brand. Products ranged from Watch pagers to Corded & Cordless Phones, as well as Cellular phones. Developed a new pager with Motorola, overseeing the end-to-end development, marketing and go to market. Opened several new markets in EMEA and the US and grew the business from 2 to 15Mio $ in three years with telco providers and large retailers.