Sean Sheppard

Sean is a Founding Partner of GrowthX. He is a globally recognized sales and marketing thought leader with over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market, including as a five-times sales founder. In addition to helping dozens of startups find product-market fit and predictable revenue models, Sean helps global multinationals to identify new applications for their existing technology portfolio, bring new products to market with profitable business models, and organize and train self-managing early product-stage sales and marketing teams. Sean was named as One of the Top Sales Influencers You Should Be Following On Social Media. Sean is an active mentor, advisor and guest lecturer at global startup accelerators, innovation conferences, and colleges and universities including NASDAQ, 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Galvanize, Alchemist, GSVLabs, London Business School and the Owen School of Business at Vanderbilt University. He’s now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.

Work experience

• U.plus Managing Partner
• Red5 Pro Board Member
• The Huffington Post Contributor
• Sales Hacker, Inc. Author
• London Business School Guest Lecturer
• Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management Guest Lecturer
• Alchemist Accelerator Mentor
• GSVlabs Mentor
• Galvanize Inc Mentor
• Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate Advisor & Mentor
• GrowthX Academy Founder
• GrowthX Founder
• TalentCircles Co-Founder & Head of Sales
• Alumwire Inc. Co-Founder, Head of Sales and Marketing
• Levementum Advisor
• The Professional Sales College Co-Founder
• S3 Golf Founding Partner
• Magique Golf President, Managing Partner
• Venture Marketing, Inc. Co-Founder / CRO
• First Advantage Senior Enterprise Account Executive
• Opnix Director of Enterprise Sales
• Insight Enterprise Account Executive
• John Jacobs Golf Schools Director of Instruction

Education

• GrowthX Academy Master's degree Sales