Brett Merle

About Brett Merle

I have almost a decade of experience leading Sales Development teams into SMB and Enterprise segments. I have experience at various growth stage(start-ups and scale-out) companies. I\'m enthusiastic about the intersection between sales and marketing. I am a Sandler-sales trained practitioner that incorporates Challenger methods. Operationally, I have intimate experience with SEPs, CRMs, data intelligence, analytics, marketing automation tools. I take an evidenced based approach when making decisions and prefer diagnostics over impulses. My biggest passion is people development. Identifying, mentoring, and enabling people to greatness has been the honor of my career. I lead through relationship to build upon drivers and skills. I manage with the belief that what is best for everyone is best for anyone.

Experience

1. Director, Sales Development

   Horizon3.ai

   Aug 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Building the latest and greatest pipeline and people engine at Horizon3.ai! Horizon3 provides a platform that helps our customers reduce security risk by autonomously finding exploitable weaknesses in their networks and providing detailed guidance about how to prioritize and fix them. More security validation and more efficiency.

Education

• Elmhurst University

  Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Cold Calling
• Marketing Communications
• Facebook
• Event Planning
• Account Management
• Business Development
• Social Media
• Management
• Selling
• B2b
• Online Advertising
• Sales Operations
• Customer Service
• Customer Satisfaction
• New Business Development
• Outlook
• Newspaper
• Recruiting
• Digital Media
• Salesforce.com
• Lead Generation
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint