Peter Graves ☁

GTM Lead - Building @ Cognition in ANZ | Devin + Windsurf

Greater Sydney Area4.5k followers
Cognitionex-Brightcoveex-UiPath

☁ Growth-oriented enterprise sales leader with 20+ years experience in SaaS, software development, digital media and consulting industries across ANZ and APAC region.

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☁ Experience managing, scaling and enabling high-growth sales teams with a focus on customer success, high-performance culture, embedding process and having fun. ☁ Comfortable building and executing go-to-market strategies for emerging technology with a focus on rapid process iteration and data-driven decision making. ☁ Enjoy coaching and mentoring Account Executives and Sales Leaders with an emphasis on mindset, goal setting and executional excellence. ☁ Familiar working in a fast paced environment and managing change across multiple stakeholder groups (internal, customer & partners). Specialties: Enterprise Sales, Sales Management, Coaching, Complex Solution Sales, Digital Media, Internet Technologies, SaaS & Cloud Software, Sales Management, Sales Strategy & Planning.

Career Timeline

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GTM Index

  1. XA NETWORKJOB
    1. Member
      2M
  2. COGNITIONJOB
    1. GTM Lead
      3M
  3. UIPATHJOB
    1. Area VP
      1Y 6M
    2. Regional VP - Sales APJ
      1Y 7M
  4. SALESFORCEJOB
    1. Regional VP - Enterprise,…
      3Y 2M
    2. Regional Sales Dir - Enter…
      6Y 8M
  5. NEON STINGRAYJOB
    1. Head of Sales
      1Y 8M
  6. BRIGHTCOVEJOB
    1. Regional Sales Dir
      1Y 1M
  7. DIFFERENTJOB
    1. Sales/Account Mgr
      2Y 7M
  8. FROST & SULLIVANJOB
    1. Sales Mgr
      4Y 11M
  9. INTERLOGIC PLACEMENTSJOB
    1. Resourcing Consultant
      2Y 11M

Time in market 25Y 7MOpen 5Closed 9Stints 14

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  1. Job: XA Network — Member · 2026-06 – present — The network that empowers tech leaders to shape the future. https://xanetwork.co/.
  2. Job: Brightcove — Regional Sales Director · 2010-08 – 2011-09 — Helped to establish Brightcove's position as a leading online video platform in the ANZ region. Responsible for all sales/business development activities in the region and worked closely with regional and global teams on the development of the market entry strategy. Within 12 months we were able to triple our customer base and secure business with many leading businesses and media companies.
  3. Job: UiPath — Area Vice President · 2024-11 – 2026-05
  4. Job: UiPath — Regional Vice President - Sales APJ · 2023-04 – 2024-11
  5. Job: Frost & Sullivan — Sales Manager · 2003-02 – 2008-01 — Frost & Sullivan is an international research and consulting company. I ran Sales & Account Management for their Information and Communication Technology business in Australia and New Zealand. Coverage areas included; Digital Media Next Generation Networks Enterprise Communications Network Security Contact Centres Enterprise Applications Wireless / Mobile Communications Broadband Typical projects included Market Intelligence Market/Business Planning Opportunity Assessment Market Segmentation End-user research Partner / Alliance Intelligence
  6. Job: Salesforce — Regional Vice President - Enterprise, Salesforce Marketing Cloud · 2020-02 – 2023-04
  7. Job: Interlogic Placements — Resourcing Consultant · 2001 – 2003
  8. Job: Cognition — GTM Lead · 2026-05 – present — Cognition is an applied AI lab building reasoning-first AI teammates. We were founded on a simple conviction: AI has reached the point where it can do real engineering work — not just suggest code snippets, but autonomously plan, implement, debug, and deploy entire features from start to finish. Devin is the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer. Unlike copilots that autocomplete lines or chatbots that answer questions, Devin operates as an independent teammate — it takes a task description, spins up its own environment, writes and tests code across multiple files, uses the terminal and browser, and iterates until the job is done. It doesn't wait for you to tab-accept; it shi…
  9. Job: Neon Stingray — Head of Sales · 2011-10 – 2013-06 — Neon Stingray specialises in developing next generation Connected Entertainment applications for multiple platforms. My focus was building a specialist practice that helps media companies and brands understand and profit from the emerging trends of transactional and subscription media services, enterprise search, media discovery and recommendations, online video and multi-screen experiences (web, mobile & Connected TV).
  10. Job: Different — Sales/Account Manager · 2008-01 – 2010-08 — Different was the largest Customer Experience Design firm in Australia. I was responsible for managing new business and strategic client relationships and also a part of the local management team. During my time at the company the business grew rapidly and secured many high profile projects with leading brands/organisations. I worked closely with many of the largest companies in Australia to introduce the concept of Experience Design and work with them to help create more customer focussed products and services. Service offering included Customer Experience Research, Experience Strategy & Experience Design across digital, interpersonal and physical products and services.
  11. Job: Salesforce — Regional Sales Director - Enterprise Accounts - Marketing Cloud · 2013-06 – 2020-02 — Salesforce is the Customer Success Platform. It’s the only platform that puts the customer in the center of marketing, sales, commerce, and service to create one connected customer experience across all touchpoints with a brand. For marketing, it means Salesforce helps marketers do what matters most: drive pipeline, product sales, and their company’s bottom line. Salesforce is the unquestioned leader in CRM market share according to Gartner and IDC. This is good news for marketers. It means that they finally have the tools to tie marketing metrics directly to sales, commerce, and service outcomes.
  12. School: UNSW — Grad Dip, Commerce
  13. School: UNSW — BA, Media & Communications
  14. School: Barker College

Skills

SalesforceValue EngineeringAgentic AutomationSales ManagementCloud ComputingNew Business DevelopmentLarge Account SalesNew MediaDigital MediaUser ExperienceInternet StrategyMajor AccountsDirect SalesWeb VideoStrategic PartnershipsSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)SaaSMentoringAccount ManagementBusiness Strategy

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