A focused and successful Sales Director with a proven track record of business growth and revenue success through developing. leading, and managing sales teams across different vertical sectors in the high value Enterprise Software and Solutions sector. Significant experience in Cloud, Infrastructure management, Applications and Big Data Software and Services solutions across the Commercial, Public Sector and Finance sectors. Proven track record of growing businesses by creating and executing go to market and business development strategy. Extensive network of senior business relationships cross sector with both corporate end users and major consultancies/system integrators. Consultative, multi level selling approach supported by strong sales methodology and process

Sales Director Commercial and Public Sector @ I am responsible for developing and executing the sales and business strategy for the UK Public Sector business of HP Software (annual revenue $100M). HP Software provide software infrastructure solutions ( Cloud , Saas, infrastructure automation and management) to enable more efficient, cost effective and secure IT environments. I manage a team of sales executives, business development and support consultants and work in conjunction with external clients, partners and other HP busines units From January 2008 to January 2015 (7 years 1 month) UK Sales Director @ Business Objects is the market leader for Business Intelligence and Discovery software solutions. I am responsible for the UK business and driving sales revenue from the enterprise market ( UK annual software and services revenue $100 million plus). I manage 4 sales team managers plus the support management and the business development/marketing function From May 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 8 months) Sales Director Public Sector @ I am responsible for growing the public sector business for Business Objects by hiring, leading and managing the sales, marketing, support and business development resources to achieve significant and increasing revenue targets . During this period sales have grown from $6 million to $30 million and the public sector division is the largest and most profitable sector From May 2004 to May 2006 (2 years 1 month) Sales Director Public Sector @ I am responsible for developing the UK Public Sector business for BEA and have grown the software and services revenues over 300% from 2000 to 2004 From 1999 to 2004 (5 years)

Kingsbury SchoolBusiness Studies @ University of Westminster Steve Lowe is skilled in: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Business Alliances, Professional Services, Cloud Computing, Solution Selling, Pre-sales, Partner Management, Channel, Go-to-market Strategy, Solution Architecture, Business Intelligence, Salesforce.com, Sales Enablement, IT Strategy