Amy Downs

Founder, CEO @Customer Obsessing Consulting

Hamburg, DE
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WORK HISTORY

Jun 2019 — Present

Founder, CEO @Customer Obsessing Consulting

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Hamburg, DE

Customer Obsessing helps companies turn customer centricity into a true growth engine.We partner with leaders and teams to improve retention, expansion, and customer-led growth through strategic, execution-focused consulting and skills capability building via the CO Academy.Our work drives real cultural and operational change by strengthening the three pillars of sustainable customer success: people, process, and technology.Customer Obsessing is ideal for organizations looking to level up Customer Success, Support, Professional Services, Customer Experience, Training, Community, Advocacy, and Referral motions and for leadership teams committed to building a company-wide culture of customer obsession.

EDUCATION

1997 — 2000

University of Central Florida

Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Science

2002 — 2005

University of Central Florida

MBA, Management Information Systems concentration

SKILLS

Customer ExperienceStart-UpsStrategyTelecommunicationsMobile DevicesPre-SalesManagementStrategic PartnershipsCall CentersSoftware as a Service (Saas)Customer Relationship Management (Crm)Business Process ImprovementAccount ManagementSaasIvrCloud ComputingContact CentersPartner ManagementProject ManagementCustomer RetentionProfessional ServicesSolution SellingUnified CommunicationsSolution ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareLeadershipProgram ManagementCross-Functional Team LeadershipProcess ImprovementCrm

ABOUT AMY DOWNS

Authentic, energetic, empathetic leader with 20+ years of experience in enterprise software, known for inspiring teams, operationalizing plans and mobilizing organizations to deliver exceptional business results. Specialized in transforming company cultures to be customer obsessed resulting in world-class growth and retention.Amy helps companies reach their full potential by bringing out the best in people. Working across the entire organization to help employees understand the critical role they play in customers lives and empowering them to do their best work is the key to her success. By helping people believe in themselves and their potential and supporting them along the way, Amy has transformed the amazing companies she has consulted and worked for. Accomplishments:• Managed $1B ARR w/ 140% NRR across EMEA/APJ• Scaled two Global Paas/SaaS companies from $0 to >$150M ARR• Developed strategic accounts & at scale customer success programs, resulting in 99% logo and 171% Net Retention for 2 companies• Ground up builds of 3 successful professional services and 2 customer success organizations• Twice moved NPS from below average (20 and -4) to 65 and 85 respectively• Led Customer-Obsessed on-premise to SaaS transformationSpecialties- Global Customer Success, Professional Services & Support Executive Leader- P&L Ownership- Customer Obsession Transformations- SaaS/PaaS/UCPaaS/Subscription- World-class retention and Net ARR at scale (Enterprise & SMB)- NPS & Advocacy- Cross-functional team leadership / high EQ - Process engineering, operational excellence/efficiencies- Technology as a key differentiator to drive cost-effective yet exceptional experiences- Direct and Channel GTM

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