Fractional CRO · For Businesses That Need Real Pipeline

You need sales.
You don't need a full-time
sales hire.

I build the revenue system your business is missing — the process, the CRM, the early pipeline — and I stay until it actually works. No slide decks. No theory. No ghost.

14
Years carrying a quota at Cisco
2
First-ever sales processes built from zero
30%
Pipeline growth, first engagement
$750M+
Revenue opportunities managed in enterprise

Sound familiar?

Most owners are running full speed — and their sales situation looks exactly like this.

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The process lives in your head

Your sales motion is you. WhatsApp messages, mental notes, relationships. The minute you're not in the room, nothing moves.

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You bought a CRM. It's empty.

HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho — purchased with good intentions. Never configured. Nobody trained. It's a monthly bill, not a system.

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You can't justify a full-time hire

"We don't have a path to hire new salespeople." The budget doesn't support it. The owner won't approve commissions. You're stuck between needing revenue and not being able to buy the people to get it.

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Your pipeline is mostly hope

There's a spreadsheet somewhere. Or a list in someone's inbox. Nobody can tell you what's real, what's stalled, and what needs attention today.

What is a Fractional CRO?

Chief Revenue Officer — without the $300K salary, the 12-month ramp, or the endless internal politics.

✓ What this is

  • A partner who builds the revenue system from scratch
  • Someone who configures your CRM so it tells you something useful
  • A person who runs early pipeline until you have something to hand off
  • Direct, honest feedback on what's working and what isn't
  • Hands in the work — not just slides about the work
  • Stays until it works, then teaches you how to run it

✗ What this isn't

  • A marketing agency generating content or running ads
  • A sales coach running training workshops
  • "Just get me leads" with nothing behind it
  • A consultant who disappears after delivering a report
  • Demand generation without a system to receive it
"Good partners are hard to find. Especially ones who understand both the business and the technology."
— The line I keep hearing. This is the gap I fill.

Built in order. Until they work.

Not delivered as deliverables. Actually running.

01

Build the Process

Define the sales motion that fits your business — how leads come in, how they're qualified, what moves them forward, when to walk away. A working playbook, not a deck.

Delivered as something your team can actually use tomorrow.
02

Configure the CRM

Take the tool you already paid for and make it work. Pipeline stages, contact hygiene, activity tracking, reporting that's readable without a manual.

HubSpot, Zoho, Salesforce — whatever you're already paying for.
03

Run Early Pipeline

Identify real prospects. Run outreach. Get conversations going. Build the first wave of real pipeline — not hypothetical pipeline on a slide.

Until you have the muscle and the system to do this without me.

I've actually carried a bag.

Most people advising on sales have never sold. I have. For 14 years at Cisco, I had a quota, a forecast, cold calls to make, deals to lose, and deals to win.

2008–2010

Sales Engineer · Cisco

Pre-sales, RFPs, C-suite proposals. Global financial clients. Learned how to translate complexity into business value under pressure.

2010–2014

Enterprise Account Manager · Energy & Utilities · Cisco

Named accounts. Real quota. Cold calls. Forecast reviews every Monday. Deals that took 18 months. Deals that fell apart on the last call. Grew account value 50%, doubled deal size from $1.5M to $5M.

2015–2017

Sr. Manager, Global IoT Business Development · Cisco

Grew the IoT business from $225M to $750M. Built Cisco's first dedicated IoT sales specialist team. Hit targets 20% above plan for three consecutive years.

2018–2022

Director, Global IoT Partnerships · Cisco

75+ global OT partners. $50M in new bookings. Built the partner ecosystem and the sell-through model from scratch. Managing pipeline across six countries.

2023–Now

Founder · aboutu.tech

Taking everything from enterprise and bringing it where it's actually needed: businesses that have never had a real sales system.

Most sales consultants learned to sell from a book.
I learned from missed quarters,
cold calls that went nowhere,
and deals I had to fight to close.

That means when I sit across from you and say "this motion won't work" — I'm not guessing. I've run it. When I say your CRM is configured wrong for where you are in the sales cycle — I know what right looks like.

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I know what a forecast is supposed to tell you — and what it tells you when your reps are hiding.
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I've made the cold calls. I know the difference between a real objection and a polite no.
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I've won deals that shouldn't have happened and lost deals that should have been easy. Both teach you more than any workshop.
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I've built the partner programs, the sell-through models, the CRM workflows — from scratch, at scale, in environments where getting it wrong costs millions.

From the field

Not case studies written by a marketing team. Actual situations I've walked into — and what happened.

Data & AI Consultancy

No sales process. Needed one.

SMB · Data Engineering Services

Built the first-ever sales process from zero — lead generation workflows, pipeline management, CRM implementation, marketing automation. Transitioned the organization from staff augmentation to a sales-outcomes model. Trained the team. Didn't just hand over a document.

↑ 30% pipeline growth within the engagement
Early-Stage SaaS Startup

First sales infrastructure. Built from scratch.

Startup · Workforce Automation

Established the company's first sales process — outreach, lead qualification, client onboarding flows. Multi-channel campaigns, a partner program, and the repeatable motion that didn't exist before I arrived. Left them with something that runs without me.

↑ 25% lead engagement, qualified pipeline from zero
Nonprofit Café & Market

CRM purchased. Nothing done with it.

Nonprofit · Food & Community

Classic situation: CRM in place, no adoption, no process behind it. Reviewed the setup, redesigned how the team tracks relationships and opportunities, rebuilt the follow-up flow. Now they can see their pipeline without asking three people what's happening.

Working system for key accounts and repeat business

The pattern I keep walking into: "We don't have a path to hire new salespeople." Heard it from a commercial kitchen supply company. Heard it from a nonprofit director sitting on an unused HubSpot account. The problem isn't budget — it's that nobody has built the infrastructure a hire would step into. The cart is before the horse. That's what I fix first.

Simple. Staged. No theater.

No long discovery phases. No 90-day strategy decks before anything moves. Here's how we actually start.

1

30-Minute Reality Check (free)

Tell me what's broken. I'll tell you if I'm the right person to fix it — and if I'm not, I'll tell you that too. No pitch. No deck. No obligation.

2

Revenue System Assessment (paid)

I map your current state — how leads come in today, where they go, what's in your CRM vs. what's in people's heads. Delivers a clear picture and a prioritized list of what to build first. Short, useful, no fluff.

3

90-Day Build

Process first. CRM next. Pipeline after. Weekly working sessions — not status calls. I'm in the work with you, not watching from a dashboard sending summary emails.

4

Handoff or Continue

At 90 days you have a working system. Run it yourself, hire someone into it, or we keep building. Your choice — with real options on the table.

Who I work with

Small number of clients at a time. I work in depth, not volume.

✓ Good fit

  • Business owners who are the sole salesperson — and can't keep being the sole salesperson
  • Nonprofits with funding but no development pipeline to show for it
  • Startups with a product and early users but no real revenue motion
  • Teams that bought a CRM and haven't opened it since the demo
  • Founders who want to understand the system, not just outsource it and forget it

✗ Not a fit

  • "Just get me leads" — with no process to receive them
  • Organizations that won't examine how they're currently selling (or not selling)
  • Anyone who wants an agency relationship, not a partner
  • Teams where no one will actually use the CRM once it's built
  • Anyone who wants magic rather than honest, consistent work

What does your sales situation actually look like?

Start with 30 minutes. No pitch. No deck. Tell me what's broken and we'll figure out together if I'm the right person for it.

30-Min Reality Check

Free conversation. You talk, I listen, I tell you what I see.

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Revenue System Assessment

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