Pete Privateer
Summary
Pete Privateer is a veteran sales and marketing professional who has provided the vision, strategy, sales, product management, and marketing leadership that helped five companies go from start-up to successful exits including two IPOs. He is a strategic marketer with the proven capability to transform established businesses; enabling them to create innovative products, exploit new markets, and achieve rapid growth and profitability.
Expertise
- Strategic Business Planning
- Agile Product Management
- Professional content writing
- Creating effective business Plans
- Persuading industry influencers
- Strategic marketing
- Sales and go-to-market strategy
- Product Marketing
- Raising seed, angel and venture capital funding
Experience
- Toptal Product Management - Product Management Consultant
- Tech Mark Partners - Principle Consultant
- Reflex Systems - President and Chief Executive Officer
- IBM Global Services - Vice President of Sales, Americas
- Internet Security Systems (ISS) - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing
- Internet Security Systems (ISS) - Senior Vice President of Services
- Pelican Security - President and Chief Operating Officer
- AXENT Technologies - Senior Vice President of Operations
- Intersolv - Vice President of Marketing
- KnowledgeWare - Vice President of Marketing
Results
- Tech Mark Partners - Helped launch a successful Google services business
- Relex Systems - Raised $8.5MM in venture capital in the emerging Cloud market
- IBM Global Services - responsible for over $250MM in annual sales
- ISS - Turned around the managed security business - Rebranded the company - Launched new appliance product
- AXENT Technologies - Startup - helped raise $8MM in venture capital - IPO - sold to Symantec
- Pelican Security - Startup - raised $7.5 MM in venture capital - sold to Microsoft
- KnowledgeWare - Startup - helped raise $7MM in capital - IPO - sold to CA
Education
Bachelor of Science - University of Florida