Customer Executive for CEOs who need post-sale revenue control.
I help SaaS, AI, and subscription companies turn retention, expansion, support, and customer data into a predictable operating system.
Customer Success · Support · Services · Renewals · Operations
$500M+
ARR portfolios managed across complex customer bases
78 → 120%+
~98%
20%+
NRR improvement through signal-led customer governance
forecast accuracy trusted in board-level conversations
cost-to-serve reduction while scaling customers and teams


A quick introduction
It is a systems problem. I turn post-sale into a predictable revenue engine by making retention, renewals, and expansion measurable, governable, and repeatable.
No heroics. No guesswork. No surprises in the boardroom.
A quick introduction
How post -sale becomes predictable, governable, and repeatable
If retention and expansion feel harder than they should, it is rarely a value problem.
The leverage i bring
I replace effort with systems, so founders get control without staying trapped in every escalation.
The goal is not to make the team work harder. The goal is to build a post-sale operating model that produces reliable outcomes as the company scales.
Predictable post-sale revenue
Founder time recovery
NRR and valuation lift
Operational leverage at scale
Data that governs
Teams that execute calmly
I remove founders from day-to-day renewals and escalations without breaking customer trust by making risk, ownership, and next actions visible early.
I reduce cost-to-serve while growing customers by codifying lifecycle motions into repeatable, low-friction plays.
I design customer systems that drive NRR north of 120% and GRR above 95%, improving confidence, diligence readiness, and revenue quality.
Retention, renewals, and expansion become measurable and forecastable with board-grade accuracy, not intuition, hope, or last-minute inspection.
Customer data is used to drive decisions around risk, investment, prioritization, and capacity, not just to populate dashboards.
I build accountable post-sale teams that own outcomes and operate with clarity, even when the company is scaling fast.
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Proof snapshot
What I have delivered, repeatedly.
This is not optimization theater. It is operational control: the kind that makes retention, expansion, support capacity, and board conversations less fragile.
78% → 120%+
~98%
20%+
100%
By making risk and expansion visible early enough to act before revenue moved.
NRR lift
Forecast accuracy
Cost-to-serve reduction
GRR during critical growth phases
Trusted by boards and investors because assumptions were governed, not guessed.
Lowered operating drag while customer and team complexity increased.
Protected revenue quality when execution pressure was highest.


the problem i solve
Customers are renewing, but nobody is fully confident why.
When I work with Seed to Series C CEOs, the pattern is usually the same: expansion happens, support is overloaded, founders are still personally managing escalations, and the system is doing too little of the work.
“We’ll know more next month.”
That sentence is expensive. Not just in churn, but in focus, credibility, hiring confidence, board trust, and speed.
Customers renew, but the team cannot explain what behavior predicts it.
Expansion is relationship-led and opportunistic instead of designed.
Support demand grows faster than the operating model.
The team works hard, but the system produces too little visibility.
Founders remain the escalation path for deals the company should be able to manage.
the shift
My job is not only to build Customer Success. My job is to get founders out of the renewal business without losing control of revenue.
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Make risk visible early
Turn motion into muscle memory
Align the company around value
I wire product usage, behavior, support friction, and customer signals into simple health models. No heavy tooling. No science projects. Just clarity.
Onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion get codified into repeatable plays, so growth does not depend on heroics or extra headcount.
Support, Success, Product, and Sales operate from the same definition of healthy, so teams stop working at cross-purposes.
Post-sale stops being a source of anxiety.
Best fit: CEOs who want systems, not slogans.
If you need a traditional CS cheerleader, I am probably not the right fit. If you need post-sale revenue control, founder leverage, and board-ready customer intelligence, that is where I am useful.
the shift


B2B SaaS or AI
Seed to Series C
CEO-reporting role
Retention and expansion ownership
Valuation readiness
Operational discipline
contact
Let’s predict the future by creating it.
Reach out to discuss CEO-reporting customer leadership opportunities, post-sale revenue transformation, or roles where retention, expansion, and customer intelligence need real ownership.
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+1-253-222-9570
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Post-sale revenue control · Customer Success · Support · Services · Renewals · Operations

