Laura Palmer
Chief Revenue Officer at People.ai
Laura Palmer
Chief Revenue Officer at People.ai
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Revenue Officer
2023 - Current
As People.ai's CRO, I oversee all go-to-market teams. This includes global sales, customer success, sales engineering, professional services, and technical support. I work hand in hand with our marketing, product, and engineering organizations to ensure our customers realize maximum value from our solutions.
Limited Partner
2022
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs. OpCo brings together 200+ of tech’s most exceptional executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in and supercharge the next generation of enterprise tech.
Advisor
2021
Advisor
2020
Global Vice President of Revenue
2022 - 2023
I am currently building Unity’s fastest-growing segment, our Industry business. We support all customers outside of games, including retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, government, and automotive. My leaders run our Americas, Government, EMEA, Korea, Japan, and SAPAC regions and help our customers harness the power of real-time 3d to build modern AI enabled digital twins, smart cities, 3d digital marketing experiences, and VR based training applications.
Vice President of Sales, Americas & EMEA
2018 - 2021
Revamped and scaled Unity's technology sales teams across the Americas and EMEA regions which led to a successful IPO in September 2020. Brought in senior leadership, built out our SDR and inside sales teams from scratch, while driving significant growth across our established games business. Integrated and ran several sales organizations inherited through acquisitions and executed on upsell/cross-sell strategies to drive greater NRR. Ran Unity’s online business for one year to drive greater synergies with our SDR and inside sales teams. My remit included leadership of our Sales Development, Inside Sales, Field Sales, Sales Engineering, Emerging Markets Sales, Training, and significant cross-functional strategy work with leadership across Engineering, Product, Marketing, Solutions, Customer Cuccess, and Operations teams.
Board Member
2022 - 2023
Head of Sales, Strategic Verticals, Google Cloud
2016 - 2017
Responsible for Google Cloud's largest revenue generating region globally, including our most strategic GCP customers. Verticals included Financial Services, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, & Retail.
Head of Sales, Google Cloud
2014 - 2016
- Revenue responsibility for Western Region Google Apps and Chrome business. - Market segment includes customers 3,000 employees and above.
Strategic Account Executive, Google Enterprise
2010 - 2013
Strategic Account Executive: Senior level sales role covering Google's most strategic accounts. Closed game changing, first of their kind deals for Google with customers such as Rockwell Collins (Google's first Aerospace and Defense Customer), Netflix, Roche (Landmark win for Google, moving 80,000+ people to Google Apps), Restoration Hardware, and Disney Animation.
Strategic Account Manager
2005 - 2010
Strategic Account Manager, Health & Life Sciences Vertical. Responsible for selling HP Software's entire Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfolio of software which included legacy Openview solutions, as well as, the entire Mercury, Peregrine and Opsware product suites. Top 5% of the worldwide sales organization every year at HP
Senior Sales Executive
2002 - 2005
Managed the Bay Area territory. Sold change management solutions to Fortune 1000 organizations.
Enterprise Sales Executive
1998 - 2002
Field sales covering Bay Area territory in a fast paced San Francisco based start-up. Sold business applications including resource optimization and portfolio management solutions that optimized IT and Service organizations.
Education
BA
1989 - 1993