Greg Collins

About Greg Collins

Greg Collins brings more than two decades of IT Industry experience to each interaction. Being part of \"First-In\" sales teams for several World Class companies,(i.e. Cohesity, Tintri, Data Domain, Decru, NetApp) Greg has a proven track record of success in fast pace hyper-growth environments by helping to establish a \"customer-first\" culture that attracts other highly motivated, extremely effective sales teams that have a sincere passion for finding compelling solutions that address customer\'s most difficult data-centric business challenges.Greg is a true industry veteran and knows how to \"get it done, from the ground up.\" During his career, Greg has built strong working relationships with SMB, Mid-range and Fortune-100 Clients as well as every major Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Agency; of the US Federal Government.Greg has played a critical role in a number of IPO’s and Acquisitions. Each experience has honed his ability to analyze, assess, and summarize critical business processes, allowing him to develop solutions that are based on \"Real World\" metrics and process.

Experience

1. Client Director - Enterprise

   AHEAD

   Oct 2019 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   AHEAD offers a full complement of services to create and sustain your platform for digital business. From education and strategy development, to complex deployments and ongoing operational management, we help our clients modernize infrastructure - helping architect, migrate, and deploy workloads across public clouds, data centers, and edge locations to meet the digital business needs of our clients. Our approach incorporates a range of technical, operational, and financial capabilities designed to enable our clients to operate with maximum efficiency, security, and reliability.

Education

• University of Maryland

  BS, Business

  1980 — 1985

Skills

• Partner Development
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Storage Solutions
• Vmware
• Storage Virtualization
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Citrix
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Netapp
• Raid
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Storage Area Networks
• Smb
• Cloud Computing
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Enterprise Storage
• Start-Ups
• Saas
• San
• Deduplication
• Network Security
• Professional Services
• Storage Architecture
• Team Building
• Iscsi
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Hip-Hop Dance
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Nas
• Solution Selling
• Direct Sales
• Disaster Recovery