Christian Knaak
Building Data Forward Enterprises one Lakehouse at a time.
- Role
- Strategic Account Executive-retail and Cpg at Databricks
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christian Knaak
A proven senior sales executive with an extensive understanding of complex enterprise solution selling. A self-directed professional with a track record of over attainment, operational excellence and creativity. Highly Skilled at presenting to large audiences, technical staff, and C-level executives. Demonstrated history of success working within startup business units where growth was dependent on new logo acquisition, business development, thought leadership, and innovation.*Expertise with ML/DL, Hadoop, Spark, Splunk, NoSQL, Edge Computing, XaaS, Cloud
Experience
Strategic Account Executive-retail and Cpg
Apr 2023 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems.
Education
Stetson University
Bachelor, Business Administration
Skills
- Direct Sales
- Negotiation
- Partner Management
- Channel Partners
- Data Center
- Enterprise Software
- Sales
- Team Leadership
- Sales Management
- Cloud Computing
- Sales Operations
- Contract Negotiation
- Selling
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Computer Hardware
- Hadoop
- Openstack
- Saas
- Business Development
- Channel
- Strategic Partnerships
- Account Management
- Integration
- Servers
- New Business Development
- Solution Selling
- Problem Solving
- Business Alliances
- Storage
- Enterprise Storage
- Complex Sales
- Team Building
- Management
- Leadership
- Dell
- Channel Management
- Consultative Selling
- Pre-Sales
- Channel Sales
- Forecasting
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