Peter Corpe

Industry GTM Leader - EMEA Public Sector at Appian

Andover, England, United Kingdom2k followers
Appian Corporationex-Salesforceex-Oracle

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  1. APPIAN CORPORATIONJOB
    1. Industry Leader - EMEA Pub…
      1Y 9M
    2. Industry Leader - UK Publi…
      3Y 2M
  2. SALESFORCEJOB
    1. Senior Dir - GTM Strategy…
      2Y 2M
    2. Senior Dir - EMEA Governme…
      1Y 5M
    3. Public Sector Industry Dir
      4Y 11M
    4. Public Sector Specialist -…
      1Y 3M
  3. ORACLEJOB
    1. Principal Sales Consultant
      7Y 9M
    2. Pre-sales Technical Consul…
      3Y 3M
  4. SUN MICROSYSTEMSJOB
    1. Pre-Sales/Principal System…
      5Y 5M
  5. ISS (BASED AT ORACLE)JOB
    1. Senior Grade III Eng
      1Y 10M

Time in market 31Y 2MOpen 6Closed 8Stints 14

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  1. Job: Appian Corporation — Industry Leader - EMEA Public Sector · 2025-01 – present · 1y 7mo — Expanding across EMEA means navigating diverse cultures, regulations, and compliance landscapes while scaling Appian’s public sector presence. Helping a geographically dispersed team, I shape strategy to balance local nuances with a unified approach, ensuring adaptability and impact. By removing distractions and focusing resources, we're incredibly well positioned to help the public sector with their most critical requirements—while driving consistent, scalable growth.
  2. Job: Appian Corporation — Industry Leader - UK Public Sector · 2023-08 – present · 3y — Having successfully grown a public sector business before—and actually enjoyed it—I jumped at the chance to do it again at Appian. Navigating complex procurement, legacy systems, and slow-moving decision cycles is a challenge I know well, and I thrive on making real change happen. Here, I coach matrix teams, craft market strategies, and help government leaders embrace process efficiency to drive real impact. From thought leadership at industry events to hands-on bid strategy, I work across executives, tech teams, and procurement to turn bold digital ambitions into reality. Having done it before and seen the results, I know the difference the right strategy can make. The goal? Making govern…
  3. Job: Salesforce — Senior Director - GTM Strategy & Operations · 2021-06 – 2023-08 · 2y 2mo — Building on previous responsibilities, adding accountability for the Public Sector Bid Response team from mid-2021 for EMEA covering 17 countries and 9 languages for FY21/22. Growing both teams significantly to support continued public sector success of greater than 100% YoY growth. My teams have delivered a fantastic foundation year, and continue to rise to new growth challenges with a renewed focus on win rates combined with closer gov framework alignment across EMEA as we continue to support and enable our fantastic Account Execs.
  4. Job: Salesforce — Senior Director - EMEA Government Practices & Readiness · 2020-01 – 2021-06 · 1y 5mo — As a Senior Director of EMEA Government Practices & Readiness in Salesforce, I thrive on helping people. Known for being a ‘fixer’ with over 25 years of customer-facing experience in both technical and sales roles, I’ve built a wealth of appreciation for the nuances of a good challenge. As part of the EMEA leadership team, I draw upon my personal experiences and networks, focussing on best practice innovation to support our continued growth into Public Sector across EMEA. I’ve responsibility for our EMEA Public Sector routes to market, security and compliance posture combined with oversight on pipeline analysis, price list management, deal structure & strategy, and team enablement. I have…
  5. Job: Salesforce — Public Sector Industry Director · 2015-02 – 2020-01 · 4y 11mo — I’m proud to be part of the wider Public Sector team at Salesforce, helping the UK Public Sector on its digital transformation journey, through the use of innovative and disruptive agile technology. I strive to align our strategic direction to be inline with UK Public Sector initiatives, such as Government as a Platform, GOV.UK Verify and Open Data, and others as they arise. With a technical background from various industries, I'm a pragmatic trouble-shooter who ‘makes things happen’, called upon for my Business Consultant and Technical Architect skills acquired over many years experience working with UK Government and IT. Always remaining focussed on customer success, effectively ‘joining…
  6. Job: Salesforce — Public Sector Specialist - Platform · 2013-11 – 2015-02 · 1y 3mo — Working in Salesforce with a focus on the whole of UK Public Sector and the Salesforce Platform to help organisations dramatically accelerate delivery from initial innovation concepts right through to multichannel delivery. All the while improving the citizen experience and empowering employees by driving ideas to apps faster and cheaper than traditional methods. http://www.salesforce.com/uk/solutions/public-sector/ The Salesforce Platform provides an agile and iterative approach, only cloud based it supports organisations ranging from a handful of employees to full scale enterprise organisations handling over 1.3 billion transactions a day. The Salesforce Platform, through the AppExchang…
  7. Job: Oracle — Principal Sales Consultant · 2006-02 – 2013-11 · 7y 9mo — Pre-sales consultant specialising in Identity and Information Security. A key member of a very pro-active and dynamic team, solely focused on Identity and Security. I perform a pre-sales role in assisting Oracles largest and most complex customers, whilst helping co-own campaigns with new customers. My experience, and industry knowledge is frequently called upon to turn opportunities around, and create innovative and creative plans, acting as a technical co-ordinator on accounts helping to ensure a successful out come for all, specifically for the customer.
  8. Job: Sun Microsystems — Pre-Sales/Principal System Engineer · 2000-09 – 2006-02 · 5y 5mo — Pre-sales support for sales and account managers for various sectors, involving presenting to all levels, managing the customer relationship, supporting and often performing proof of concepts. Running technical workshops, and being the central technical point for customers when needed in addition to the normal support routes.
  9. Job: Oracle — Pre-sales Technical Consultant · 1997-06 – 2000-09 · 3y 3mo — Pre-sales in comms and Media Dept.
  10. Job: ISS (based at Oracle) — Senior Grade III Engineer · 1995-08 – 1997-06 · 1y 10mo — PC-support Team Leader
  11. School: Staffordshire University — Higher National Diploma, Business Information Technology
  12. School: Sexeys School
  13. School: Staffordshire University — Business Information Technology
  14. School: l

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ProcurementThought LeadershipExecutive CoachingStrategic InfluenceGrowth StrategiesBrand Awareness ProgramsChannel StrategyPricing StrategyStrategic PartnershipsFramework AgreementsProgram ManagementSales OperationsPre-salesBusiness StrategySalesProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentSoftware as a Service (SaaS)StrategyLeadership

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