Wes Wharton

Named Accounts at Tenable

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

About

Revenue-driven and goal-focused senior sales professional with proven experience of progressive sales in the technology industry. Award-winning strategist who delivers year-over-year exceeding sales targets, generates new business opportunities, and cultivates long-lasting, successful client relationships. Self-motivated leader with an innate passion to mentor and coach aspiring talent.

Experience

  • Named Account Manager at Tenable
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Vulcan Cyber was acquired by Tenable the leader in Exposure Risk Management.

  • Vulcan Cyber, a Tenable Company (6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Head of Sales - Americas (Acquired by Tenable)
      Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

      • Across my tenure and roles helped lead revenue from 100k to $10M+ in ARR, driving customer growth from single digits to 100+ across enterprise and mid-market. • Built and led regional and national sales teams, creating repeatable sales playbooks tailored to enterprise cybersecurity buyers. • Partnered with channel, marketing, product, and customer success to align pipeline generation and accelerate growth.

    • Director of Sales, East
      Feb 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Sales Director
      Oct 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Vulcan's powerful new remediation orchestration platform hands teams the exact priorities, remedies, and automation they need to get fix done. Unlike typical vulnerability management tools that simply give you an endless to-fix list, Vulcan prioritizes based on both severity and fixability, hands you the ideal remedy for the job, then orchestrates and automates the entire fixing process.

  • Enterprise Sales Executive at Bugcrowd
    Dec 2017 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Director of Sales, Western United States at Anomali
    Feb 2014 - Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Created and implemented account plans focused on industry-leading technology, services, and SaaS platforms that enable businesses to integrate cyber threat intelligence into security products Secured $5MM+ revenue growth; surpassed 100% sales target YOY; earned Presidents Club ‘14, ‘15, ‘16 Collaborated with internal stakeholders to generate and deliver winning Contract Bids, Proposals, RFI/RFP Responses, and Statements of Work Leveraged industry relationships to create new business opportunities; managed sales process through closure of sale; cultivated long-term client relationships that resulted in recurring business Recruited, trained, and directed a team of eight sales managers to improve sales and profitability

  • Rapid7 (4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Sales Team Lead Northwest
      Jan 2011 - Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Sold vulnerability management, penetration testing software, and services to small business and Fortune 500 companies that empower security professionals to protect their organizations Promoted to regional team lead; achieved revenue targets as highest billing member of the West ’12, ’13 Consistently surpassed yearly quotas with 120% of $1.2MM in ’12, 110% of $1.4MM in ‘13; Earned Presidents Club ’12, ‘13

    • Business Development / Account Executive
      Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Developed skills across technical selling, new business outreach, demand generation, sales operations Presented new outreach strategies to internal partners, then implemented to secure new business