Renaissance Leadership is pleased to have completed the hiring of Soldo’s Commercial Leadership team with the following appointments:
Stuart Gammon joins Soldo as Chief Revenue Officer. Stuart is an experienced commercial SaaS leader with a strong track record of scaling and structuring fast growth organisations. He joins the Leadership team at Soldo with the specific remit of building out the Enterprise go-to-market organisation. Prior to joining Soldo, Stuart spent five and a half years working for Box. During his tenure he had responsibility for all Commercial Sales across EMEA, moving to RVP UK&I and ultimately became the RVP for Northern Europe with responsibility for 75% of Box’s EMEA revenues. Stuart has extensive experience leading both Enterprise and Mid Market organisations and earlier in his career he ran EMEA Inside Sales for Qlik, EMEA Mid Market for McAfee and additionally Nimsoft (acquired by CA). His formative years were spent at HP Software.
Darren Upson is appointed as VP Small Business Europe for Soldo. Darren is a highly experienced, hands on SaaS Marketing Leader, with over 12 years’ experience of building high performance marketing teams within hyper growth global technology businesses. He has been hired into Soldo to focus on developing their small business go-to-market strategy and execution. Prior to joining Soldo, Darren spent two and a half years at Xero, one of the world’s most valuable Cloud software companies. During his time he grew the UK subscriber base from 83,000 to over 250,000. Previously Darren spent four and a half years as the Marketing Director EMEA for NetSuite. This combined with the six years he spent at Deltek means that Darren has had exceptional exposure to the ERP and accounting space, which will prove invaluable to Soldo moving forward.
Soldo, a London based fintech startup, address the gap that currently exists between traditional banking organisations and the needs of their commercial customers. Their initial approach is to provide a multi user spending account, complete with MasterCard cards and supported with an intuitive SaaS platform enabling straightforward administration and effortless reporting. Soldo was founded and is led by the CEO Carlo Gualandri, a highly successful Italian technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and exiting businesses in the world of Media (Virgilio), Banking (Fineco), and Gaming (Giococ Digitale). Soldo have raised $11 million Series A funding, the round was led by Accel Partners.
Commenting on the appointments, Carlo Gualandri said ”Working with Sebastian and Renaissance has been one of the best decisions of the year. His support for our C Level executive searches has been outstanding, from brainstorming about the organisation, to selecting high quality candidates to closing really good hires that were the best we could have aimed for. I am looking forward to continuing our relationship.”
For more information visit www.soldo.com
