Stefan Kollenberg

Data Partnerships @ Clay

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Clayex-Future of Engagementex-Volley

Hey 👋 I’m a Clay customer turned team member because I love the product so much! Before joining Clay I led client services for Volley, a lead generation agency and signed the first 15 customers for our AI email personalization tool.

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Before Volley, I co-founded a workplace culture building software, closing our first 40 customers and getting us to $1M ARR.

Career Timeline

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GTM Index

  1. CLAYJOB
    1. Data Partnerships
      2Y 5M
    2. GTM Eng
      5M
  2. SK CONSULTINGJOB
    1. Founder
      6Y 9M
  3. FUTURE OF ENGAGEMENTJOB
    1. Board Member
      4Y 11M
    2. Community Lead
      1Y 11M
  4. VOLLEYJOB
    1. Client Success & GTM - Fou…
      1Y 1M
    2. Client Success
      1Y 6M
  5. CRESCENDO DEIJOB
    1. Co-Founder: GTM & Sales Le…
      3Y 3M
    2. Co-Founder: Mktg, Sales & CS
      1Y 8M
  6. BRIZIJOB
    1. Mktg & Customer Success Le…
      1Y 7M
  7. FRONT OFFICE SPORTSJOB
    1. Feature Writer - Sports Te…
      1Y
  8. HOCKEY-STOCKJOB
    1. Mktg Lead, Founding Team
      11M

Time in market 11Y 7MOpen 5Closed 10Stints 15

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  1. Job: Clay — Data Partnerships · 2024-05 – present · 2y 3mo — Reach out if you think your product could add new & valuable use cases for Clay customers!
  2. Job: Clay — GTM Engineer · 2024-01 – 2024-06 · 5 mo — After using Clay as a customer for the past couple years, I’ve joined the team to help other people discover it’s power.
  3. Job: SK Consulting — Founder · 2020 – present · 6y 7mo — GTM & Sales Advisory for startups
  4. Job: Future of Engagement — Board Member · 2021 – 2025 · 4y
  5. Job: Future of Engagement — Community Lead · 2021 – 2022 · 1y — We want a Canada where the needs of the most vulnerable people are put first. To get there, we help underrepresented candidates with Canadian elections by providing them with campaign technology and expertise.
  6. Job: Volley — Client Success & GTM - Founding team · 2022-12 – 2024-01 · 1y 1mo — Our team of 35 BDRs was booking meetings at a rate of 4-6% by doing excellent research and high quality personalized email outreach. As the team scaled, we experienced first hand the limitations of existing sales technology, so we built our own platform to simplify the process of doing personalized outreach for BDRs.
  7. Job: Volley — Client Success · 2021-06 – 2022-12 · 1y 6mo — Scaled out BDR team from 5 to 35 reps exclusively focused on highly personalized email outreach.
  8. Job: Crescendo DEI — Co-Founder: Go-To-Market & Sales Lead (Exited) · 2017-12 – 2021-03 · 3y 3mo — Myself and an SDR took Crescendo from 0 to $1M+ in revenue 2 years post-launch, with A-list clients like ServiceNow, Indeed, and Conde Nast (Vogue, Wired Magazine, GQ). Crescendo is a software that uses curated content to help employees develop more inclusive attitudes and behaviors. Through Crescendo we've helped scale D&I programs at some of the largest technology companies in the world; grown a small agile team across North America; interviewed several hundred users to create studies that have been presented at Harvard; and helped over 40 000 employees across the world build more inclusive behaviors through an easy to use software inside of Slack. Learn more: http://crescendowork.com
  9. Job: Crescendo DEI — Co-Founder: Marketing, Sales & CS · 2017-12 – 2019-08 · 1y 8mo
  10. Job: Brizi Inc. — Marketing & Customer Success Lead, Founding Team · 2016-02 – 2017-09 · 1y 7mo — Marketing, press and customer success for this sports-tech startup.
  11. Job: Front Office Sports — Feature Writer - Sports Technology · 2016-05 – 2017-05 · 1y — Sports technology writer.
  12. Job: Hockey-Stock — Marketing Lead, Founding Team · 2015-03 – 2016-02 · 11 mo — Founding employee focused on marketing.
  13. School: Toronto Metropolitan University — Social Change Leadership, Political Science and Government
  14. School: Lund University — Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities, Economics
  15. School: Toronto Metropolitan University — Marketing

Skills

ClayMarketing StrategySportsStrategic PartnershipsSocial NetworkingEarly-stage StartupsCorporate SponsorshipsLeadershipSalesTeamworkEntrepreneurshipSocial Media MarketingCommunicationPublic SpeakingCustomer ServiceTeam Leadership

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