Daniel Gray

Daniel Gray

SVP North America, GTM at Acolad group

Qualifications

Currently SVP North America GTM at Acolad group, leading North American growth strategy

Nearly three decades of enterprise sales and revenue leadership across localization and language technology (Lionbridge, Welocalize, BLEND, Acolad)

Multiple President's Club honors as a top global sales producer at Welocalize and Lionbridge

Expertise

Localization

Language technology

Go-to-market strategy

Revenue operations

Enterprise sales

AI-enabled solutions

WHAT I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT • Intellectual omnivore • Excellent skill-set in building and scaling commercial models through direct, partner, & self-service channels to create predictable, recurring revenue streams • Strong skill-set in identifying and evaluating an organization's critical business processes and creating sales organizations that optimize go-to-market OpEx for selling capacity, deal health, and EBIT performance • Recruits, builds, trains and scales global executive sales & marketing organizations resulting in maximized ideal customer profiles, improved win ratios, accelerated sales velocity, and repeatable customer experience/success • Proven record in hyper-scaling and modernizing enterprise acquisition sales for underperforming, disruptive and innovative offerings within the US, EMEA and APAC (remote offices)

Experience

SVP North America, GTM at Acolad group

Aug 2023 — Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Leads North American growth strategy for the >$200M content and technology company, driving the pivot from services to AI-enabled localization solutions.

Chief Revenue Officer at BLEND Localization

Jan 2020 to Jan 2023 · 3 yrs

Led global GTM transformation for the PE-backed localization provider, driving roughly 3X growth into AI-enabled solutions.

EVP, Chief Commercial Officer at Deluxe Entertainment Services

Jan 2019 to Jan 2020 · 1 yr

Led global sales strategy for the $1B media services and technology company, architecting a shift to a SaaS/PaaS model.

Senior Vice President, IT Infrastructure GTM at The Hut Group

Jan 2017 to Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

Built the 'Ingenuity' infrastructure division for the ecommerce company, owning P&L and global expansion.

Sr. Director, U.S. Enterprise Sales at Welocalize

Jan 2015 to Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

Re-engineered the US commercial function for the managed services and SaaS localization provider.

Principal, Business Development Leader at Amazon Web Services

Jan 2012 to Jan 2015 · 3 yrs

Led GTM strategy for Amazon's human-in-the-loop AI data infrastructure and crowdsourcing platform.

Qualifications

Currently SVP North America GTM at Acolad group, leading North American growth strategy

Nearly three decades of enterprise sales and revenue leadership across localization and language technology (Lionbridge, Welocalize, BLEND, Acolad)

Multiple President's Club honors as a top global sales producer at Welocalize and Lionbridge

Expertise

Localization

Language technology

Go-to-market strategy

Revenue operations

Enterprise sales

AI-enabled solutions

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