Steven Bachert is an accomplished executive sales leader and board advisor with a proven track record in highly complex and competitive environments. He has a deep experience in architecting and executing 2-3x annual revenue growth plans with start-ups, hyper-growth, and established enterprise software companies. He has led large, distributed, global sales organizations focused on complex enterprise software solutions including SaaS, PaaS, Big Data, IoT, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Security, and Mobility. Steven has garnered executive gravitas from his former senior executive leadership roles at FourKites, Uptake, Cloudera, Hewlett-Packard, PTC, and other venture-backed start-ups - with two profitable acquisitions and one highly successful IPO on his belt. Steven's specialties include building shareholder/investor value through strategy, planning, and flawless execution, recruiting, building, coaching & directing world-class sales organizations of 200+ team members, creating and communicating business value from innovative solutions, developing revenue models and compensation plans that drive desired behavior, and leading companies to successful exits of acquisition and IPO. He studied MBA, Finance, Economics, and International Business at Loyola University Chicago and Bachelor's of Science in Education at Northern Illinois University.