Ziad Albayati

Business Development Director @ Claranet

About

Results-driven Sales Director with a proven track record of delivering consistent revenue growth across the Tech/SaaS and Fintech sectors. I specialise in enterprise B2B sales, building high-performing teams, opening new markets, and forging strategic partnerships that create long-term value.Throughout my career I’ve led from the front: consistently exceeding targets, scaling sales functions from the ground up, and expanding into new regions with a structured, data-informed approach. I believe great sales leadership is equal parts strategy, coaching, and execution.What sets me apart: • Revenue delivery; a consistent track record of hitting and surpassing ambitious targets in competitive markets • Team building; recruiting, developing, and retaining top sales talent • Market expansion; identifying and unlocking new opportunities in enterprise Tech and Fintech • Stakeholder influence; building trusted relationships at C-suite and decision-maker levelOpen to connecting with fellow sales leaders, founders, and innovators shaping the future of technology and financial services across EMEA.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Royal Tunbridge Wells

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales Management, Analytical Skills, Requirements Analysis, Project Management, Integration, Change Management, Business Analysis, Business Development, Cloud Computing, CRM, Enterprise Software, Management, SaaS, Sales, Solution Selling, Start-ups, Team Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy

Experience

Business Development Director

Claranet

2024-12 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

London Area, United Kingdom

Helping business leaders transform their technology estates. Deliver #cybersecurity #cloud #data #managed services across EMEA

Accounts Director - FinServ - EMEA

Rackspace Technology

2018-4 - 2024-12 · 6 yrs 9 mos

London, United Kingdom

Rackspace is modernising IT in today’s multi-cloud world. By delivering IT as a service, across private and public cloud environments, to realize the power of digital transformation without the complexity and expense of managing it. Our comprehensive portfolio of managed services across applications, data, security and infrastructure on the world’s leading public and private cloud platforms enables us to provide unbiased expertise. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work. Learn more at www.rackspace.com.

Regional Sales Manager - FinServ - EMEA

Canonical

2017-1 - 2018-4 · 1 yr 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

We help reduce the software and subscription Tax. The combination of market conditions and network constraints is demanding that Financial Services organisations pursue a cloud based approach much like that adopted by the IT industry. However, technologies and design principles used as the basis for typical IT cloud applications cannot be applied directly to network services without accounting for carrier-grade requirements. In addition we are supporting clients looking to adopt Containers, we have deep knowledge of Docker & Kubernetes. Finally, with the adoption of Big Data, we support organisations leverage GPU & Tensorflow to deliver insight and decision support.

Regional Sales Director

MapR Technologies, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise company in 2019

2015-2 - 2018-4 · 3 yrs 3 mos

London, United Kingdom

Collaborate to deliver a Big Data platform to enable real-time data streaming capability across: Research / Products / Analytics / Transactions & Risk.