Ahead is pleased to announce that Sean Burns is its new vice president of business development. In this role he will focus on driving incremental revenue through partner management and account positioning. Sean brings to Ahead over 15 years of experience in solutions-based selling in global business environments.
“Sean Burns has demonstrated ability to grow new business, provide day-to-day management of brand development, and build relationships. The high accolades he has received throughout his career attest to that fact. We are confident that Sean’s contributions will help keep Ahead on the cutting edge as a solutions-based consulting company creating business value through true innovation of the data center,” said Aaron Nack, COO of Ahead.
Sean is charged with marketing Ahead to key partners to drive brand preference and with handling day-to-day management of MDF, COOP, and/or MOU funds. His responsibilities include developing and maintaining channel and sales executive relationships with key partners and serving as marketing liaison with the partner community, driving success stories throughout all levels of sales and channels.
Prior to joining Ahead, Sean was director of virtual computing solutions for Forsythe, where he handled Go to Market around virtual infrastructures and led their VCE practice. As director of business development he was responsible for all storage vendor relationships and managed a team of business development managers, product specialists, and salespeople specializing in storage solutions for large enterprise customers.
Sean also leverages his extensive prior sales management experience at EMC, where he served as a district manager and a senior enterprise account manager servicing many Fortune 1000 customers in the Chicagoland area.
Sean earned his bachelor of arts in marketing from Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts.