Edward Preston

About Edward Preston

I build growth engines where revenue, community, and partnerships intersect.For 20+ years, I’ve helped SaaS, cybersecurity, and AI companies turn visibility into pipeline and relationships into repeatable revenue. My work sits at the intersection of sales execution, partner ecosystems, and community-led GTM, aligning founders, operators, and go-to-market teams around what actually drives momentum.I’ve built and scaled sales organizations, owned and influenced $250M+ in ARR, and led partner-first motions across direct, channel, and ecosystem models. Along the way, I’ve learned that durable growth doesn’t come from tactics alone. It comes from trust, signal, and consistent execution.Today, I work closely with founders and growth teams to activate communities, partnerships, and platforms that create market pull, not just outbound push. Through EPic HYPE and advisory work, I connect people, ideas, and opportunities in ways that accelerate adoption, credibility, and commercial outcomes.If you’re building something meaningful and want growth that compounds, not just spikes, I help you turn strategy, signal, and execution into results.

Experience

1. VP of Growth

   Cyberuptive

   Sep 2025 — Present

   Building scalable revenue growth through partner expansion and brand acceleration, creating high-impact ecosystems across MSPs, VARs, and Independent Trusted Advisors for cybersecurity and AI solutions.

Education

• California State University, Long Beach

  Interpersonal Communication

  1993 — 1996

• California State University, Fullerton

  Business/Managerial Economics

  1989 — 1991

Skills

• Sales Operations
• New Business Development
• Channel Partners
• Enterprise Network Security
• Management
• Small Group Management
• Trading
• 2-Factor Authentication
• Business Relationship Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Endpoint Security
• Cloud Computing
• Contract Negotiations
• Solution Selling
• Money Management
• Sandler Sales Training
• Foreign Exchange
• Customer Negotiations
• Quantitative Analysis
• Identity Access Management
• Group Training
• Strategy
• Salesforce.com
• Big Data Analytics
• Negotiation
• Sales
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Saas
• Presenting
• Presentation Coaching
• Toad for Oracle
• Network Security
• Public Speaking
• Quantitative Analytics
• Quantitative Trading