Chris Young

About Chris Young

Dynamic, competitive Senior-level Sales Professional recognized for possessing a ‘never give up’ spirit and known for the ability to understand and apply technical concepts during the sales process. Over 15 successful years of unmatched experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Account Management, Relationship Building, Sales Methodology and Client Relations. Create innovative strategies that maximize the impact of the company’s sales efforts while acting as a product evangelist and Subject Matter Expert (SME) to team members, sales channels, alliance partners, customers and prospects.Specialties: • Sales Management • Needs-Based Selling • Create Product Demand • Contract Negotiations • Sales Analysis • Team Building • Staff Training & Development• Technically-Oriented Product Sales• Account Team Utilization• Hybrid Cloud• Private Cloud• Public Cloud• Data Services (Big Data)• IT Transformation• DevOps• Digital Content Management • SaaS, IaaS, DCaaS• Virtualization•vGPU

Experience

1. Account Executive

   Flexential

   Sep 2018 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Flexential stands for something not often found in the world of IT transformation: the human touch. The best infrastructure solutions aren’t about infrastructure, they’re about people. With a mission toaccelerate customer success through people and technology, we build trusted relationships and deliver tailored, value-added and reliable solutions to demonstrate the power of people in a technical world.Utilizing our people, values and reliable performance, Flexential is deeply invested in the success of our 4,200+ customers, who trust us to deliver core data center solutions of colocation and connectivity, as well as cloud, managed solutions and professional services. Flexential owns and operates 41 data centers in markets such as Austin, Atlanta, Calgary, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Louisville KY, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, Phoenix, Plano, Portland, Raleigh, Richmond. Salt Lake City, Tampa

Education

• Texas State University

  BFA, Graphic Design

  1989 — 1994

Skills

• Sales
• Channel Partners
• Consultative Selling
• Managed Services
• Managed Hosting
• Strategy Development
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Salesforce.com
• Virtualization
• IT Transformation
• Saas
• Private Cloud
• Key Account Management
• Hybrid Cloud
• Sales Process
• Storage Solutions
• Solution Selling
• Storage
• Business Alliances
• Channel Management
• Oem
• Cloud Computing
• Data Services
• Sales Operations
• Selling
• Account Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• Resellers
• Alliances
• Channel