In January, we announced a new initiative called The Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards.
The Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards are an effort to show some love to the actual reps and practitioners on the front lines. They don’t often get the widespread recognition they deserve, since most other online sales awards often become influencer popularity contests.
During the 6 weeks of open voting, over 5000 votes were placed. It was incredible to see the audience rally around their peers, and the first version of this initiative.
Our Sales Hacker Top 50 Awards Categories Are:
1) Sales Ops/Enablement:
Kali Berry – Sales Operations Manager, The Muse.com
Kelly Piane – Manager of Success & Effectiveness, Global Inside Sales & Business Development, Infor
Matt Amadea – Manager of Sales Operations, Compeat
Sona Jepsen – Global Head of Sales Enablement, FIS GLOBAL
Evelyn Fayad – Revenue Operations Analyst, SalesLoft
Andrew Mowat – Head of Growth Operations, Culture Amp
Andrew Oddo – Director of Growth, Bowery Capital
Chris Hays – Marketing and Sales Operations, DiscoverOrg
Edwin Lau – Sales Operations Analyst, SmartRecruiters
Emil Gondos – Senior Sales Enablement Manager, DexYP
2) Account Executives Winners:
Astrid de Bellefon – Account Executive, Influitive
Simmy K – Enterprise Sales Executive, Conversica
Cara Conceller – People Geek, Culture Amp
Preeti Kim Pinch – Sr. Account Executive, Uberflip
Katie Levy – Enterprise Account Executive, SmartRecruiters
Chris Klein – Account Executive, Troops
Spencer Wiedeman – EMEA Sales Manager, Talkdesk
Tom Alaimo – Account Executive, West. TechTarget
Tyler Gregerson – Corporate Account Executive, Lucid Software
Gordon Jen – Director of Sales, EverString
3) Sales Development:
Alex Boyd – Founder & CEO, RevenueZen
Stephen Farnsworth – SDR Manager, Outreach.io
Christian DiPietrantonio – Manager, Business Development, Axiom Law
Dalton Gilgor – Account Development Manager, Guru
Morgan J Ingram – Director of Sales Execution and Evolution, JBarrows Sales Training
Mia Cambi – Commercial Sales Development, New Relic
Sydney Schocket – Strategic Business Development, Square
Ellie Twigger – Sales Development Specialist, Forrester Research
Stephanie Papagni – Head Of Business Development, Flybits
Mallika Sahay – Sales Development Manager, Segment.com
4) Sales Leaders Winners:
Laurabeth Harvey – VP of Sales, Intercom
Tonni Bennett – VP Sales, Terminus
Jen Spencer – Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Smartbug Media
Kharisma Moraski – VP Sales, Kaseya
Jaimie Buss – VP Sales, Zendesk
Marc Jacobs – SVP Sales and Customer Success, CB Insights
Olivier L’Abbé – VP of Sales, G2 Crowd
Dan Cook – SVP of Sales & Customer Success, Lucid Software
Lars Nilsson – VP, Global Inside Sales, Cloudera
Scott Leese – SVP Sales, Qualia
5) Demand Gen Winners:
DeAnn Poe – Vice President, Demand Generation, DiscoverOrg
Leticia Rodriguez – Sr. Manager, Demand Generation, Host Analytics
Liv Longley – Director, Marketing Programs & Demand Generation, Zoomdata
Holly Stephenson – Director, Demand Generation Marketing, Teradata
Mariza Melendez – West Coast Marketing and Events Manager, NewVoiceMedia
Adam Goyette – VP Lead Generation, DexYP
Chris Orlob – Senior Director, Product Marketing, Gong.io
Guillaume Cabane – VP Growth, Drift
Nick Ezzo – Vice President of Demand Generation, Sage Intacct
David Dorman – Director of Growth and Demand Generation, Digital Ocean
*Rules and Regulations
Each voter was allowed to vote once per category and must have used a valid business email address. Votes by Award Committee Members count as 5 votes. Votes by internal team members or external junior level employees count as 1 vote. Votes by external Director/VP/C level colleagues count as 3 points. Votes were then tallied up.
We then made sure that the top 10 would be compiled of the top 5 men and the top 5 women, not just the top total 10.
In the future, the nomination and voting process will be more intuitive. 2018 was our beta test and we think it worked well! We’re looking forward to building on this in the future.
