Opencorporates Appoints Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth
Ralph Vossmeyer, former Teradata senior executive, joins OpenCorporates to create high-growth customer-centric sales organisation
OpenCorporates, the go-to foundational source of transparent, reliable and up-to-date company data, has appointed Ralph Vossmeyer as its Chief Revenue Officer.
His appointment comes as OpenCorporates was recently named one of Europe’s fastest growing companies in a report published in the Financial Times.
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Vossmeyer is a leader in the data and technology fields who brings a 20 year track record of transforming sales functions to accelerate growth. Previously, Vossmeyer was a General Manager and executive leader at Teradata, the multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics, where he led sales and delivery teams to generate over $270 million in annual revenues.
He will build a customer-centric sales culture that ensures OpenCorporates’ disruptive data platform gives its customers a competitive advantage. As part of this, he will oversee the development of best practice sales processes taken from his experience working with scale-up companies and the venture capital world. Vossmeyer is currently also a Venture Partner at biotech venture capital firm VC23.
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Vossmeyer said: “OpenCorporates’ foundational and transparent company data has huge potential, which is why millions of users and hundreds of organisations rely on it for a competitive advantage. I’m excited to help accelerate the company’s growth as it scales up by leading a customer-first commercial organisation”.
Sarah Arana-Morton, CEO of OpenCorporates, said: “Companies are increasingly realising the need for transparent company data. Hiring a senior leader of Ralph’s experience shows our ambition to lead this new market and become a world-class customer-facing organisation for our rapidly growing client base”.
