Stu Schmidt

Host of The AI-Enabled GTM on YouTube

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

About

Featured in the first seminal work on the transformation of sales...Sales 2.0 by Anneke Seley and Brent Holloway. 4 successful exits: OAO Technology - IPO; WebEx - Acquisition; Unisfair - Acquisition; Zend - Acquisition. Combining a proven track record of success with broad executive and cross-functional experience, I thrive in leadership positions where scaling effectively is required. I bring recognized thought leadership in sales management, sales process and sales business intelligence in concert with deep operating experience and P&L responsibility. My inspirational leadership gifts and communication ability consistently foster an environment of commitment, passion and motivation. Specialties: Sales process, recurring revenue, enterprise sales, scaling for growth, marketing, operations, professional services, leadership, metrics and measurement.

Experience

  • Principal, Technology Enabled Selling Practice at Market-Partners Inc
    Aug 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

  • Faculty Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator
    Jan 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 7 mos

    Alchemist Accelerator is dedicated to Enterprise startups. Rated in the top 5 accelerators in the nation by HBR. 50% of our companies raise more than $500,000 before demo day.

  • Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Leadspace
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Leadspace is the leading B2B Customer Data Platform (CDP) empowering go-to-market teams to accelerate growth through effective, personalized engagement across all channels. With the most expansive and open B2B data engine in the industry, sophisticated AI, a proprietary graph of B2B personas, and activations across the tech stack, customers like Microsoft, SAP, and RingCentral use Leadspace to power more data-driven and effective inbound marketing, outbound targeting, and ABM efforts. Leadspace is based in San Francisco and Israel, and is trusted by more than 200 B2B brands including 7 of the 10 largest enterprise software companies. I am actively recruiting rock-star Enterprise Account Executives, Account Managers, SDRs and Sales/Marketing Operations professionals.

  • VP Sales and Service at GoFundMe
    Jan 2017 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Empowering people to help people! GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising platform, with over $3 billion raised so far. With a community of more than 25 million donors, GoFundMe is changing the way the world gives. Voted #1 Great Place to Work. The combination of GoFundMe and CrowdRise (acquired in January of 2017) now empowers charities and corporations to add the power of community to their fundraising practices. CrowdRise is the Premier fundraising platform for Charities and Corporations. With powerful features and integrations, CrowdRise powers the simplest charity social fundraising programs to the world's largest fundraising events hosting multiple charities, teams and donors. For corporations, CrowdRise makes giving back more wide-reaching and powerful than ever, generating many times the benefit of a single donation. Whether you represent a charity, are an event organizer or are helping your corporation give back, CrowdRise has solution to make your life better!

  • President at Zend Technologies
    Mar 2014 - Nov 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Zend was acquired by Rogue Wave Software in October, 2015! Our mission is to empower companies to deliver innovation faster. Our customers speed up their release cycles and improve application quality by using Zend Server, our platform for Continuous Delivery of PHP applications. Zend Server equips development and operations teams with the infrastructure and insight to support rapid application releases, and provides PHP applications with capabilities that ensure high levels of reliability, performance and security, both on-premise and in the cloud.