Chad R. Martens

About Chad R. Martens

An experienced and trusted technology advisor for Enterprise, Healthcare, and SLED customers. As one of the top performing SLED teams at Cisco, we are an integral part of Cisco’s transformation from traditional hardware sales to software subscriptions, recurring software revenue, and services. Success for our team hinges on consistent communication with all stakeholders and channel partners while maintaining a reputation built on trust, value, and exceptional service for our customers.Acquired Skills: Cloud Services Sales(SaaS, PaaS, DaaS, BaaS), Subscription/Recurring Software Revenue, VPA and GPO Contract Negotiation, Healthcare Compliance, SLED Sales, Channel Partner Onboarding, Recruiting, Sales Management and Coaching, Emerging Technology Trends, EMC Proven Professional, NASP(NetApp), CSE(Cisco), HPE Sales Certification, VSP(VMware), Microsoft Sales Certification

Experience

1. Account Executive - South Carolina State Govt

   Cisco

   May 2018 — Present · Columbia, SC, US

   Recruited to South Carolina to improve Cisco’s sales, services, and customer/partner relationships in SC state government accounts. Focused on positioning Cisco’s products, software subscriptions, services, and our reseller partners as the best value for our taxpayer dollars. Since joining Cisco in 2018, we have grown sales 185% by closing $55M of hardware, subscription software/recurring revenue, and services business.

Skills

• Saas
• Management
• Cisco Systems Products
• Cold Calling
• Presentation Skills
• Managed Services
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Account Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Partner Management
• Cloud Computing
• Channel
• Solution Selling
• Selling
• Strategic Partnerships
• Sales Process
• Channel Sales
• Direct Sales
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Cisco Technologies
• Sales
• Leadership
• Salesforce.com
• Virtualization
• Storage
• Unified Communications