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Ash Lane

Ash Lane

Enterprise SaaS Sales Manager

Enterprise SaaS sales and partnerships leader with Middle East regional ownership, full-cycle new-business experience, and deep technical fluency across AI, workflow, event, HR, and business software.

Dubai, UAE - Open to Riyadh and regional roles me@ash-lane.com ash-lane.com linkedin.com/in/ashlane github.com/ashestree87 +971 58 517 8182

Target Roles

  • Enterprise Sales Manager
  • Enterprise Account Executive
  • Technology Sales Manager
  • Regional SaaS Sales Manager

Role Fit

  • Enterprise new business
  • Full-cycle SaaS sales
  • Middle East territory ownership
  • Executive solution selling
  • Pipeline and forecasting

Professional Summary

Enterprise SaaS Sales Manager profile. Enterprise SaaS sales leader with Middle East regional ownership, full-cycle new-business experience, and founder-level product fluency. Progressed from shared mid-market coverage to ownership of Cvent's third-party planner segment across the Middle East within six months. Strong across consultative discovery, tailored demonstrations, proposals, commercial negotiation, pipeline discipline, forecasting, cross-functional delivery, and translating complex AI and SaaS capabilities into customer outcomes.

Core Skills

Enterprise SaaS Sales

  • Full-cycle new business development across prospecting, qualification, discovery, tailored demonstrations, proposals, multi-stakeholder negotiation, contract progression, and implementation handoff.
  • Territory planning, account prioritisation, consultative selling, commercial value mapping, objection handling, and long-term relationship development.

Pipeline, Forecasting & CRM

  • Pipeline creation and hygiene, sales activity, opportunity progression, forecasting, account planning, follow-up discipline, and CRM reporting.
  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, lifecycle workflows, analytics, and commercial dashboards.

Executive Solution Selling

  • Buyer and stakeholder discovery, business-case development, solution demonstrations, proposals, RFP responses, proof-of-concept planning, and executive narratives.
  • Translate AI, SaaS, workflow, integration, security, data, and implementation capabilities into clear customer outcomes and commercially credible plans.

Regional GTM & Partnerships

  • Middle East market development, regional segment ownership, strategic partnerships, founder-led GTM, positioning, pricing, pilots, and partner motions.
  • Cross-functional selling with SDR, marketing, product, implementation, customer success, operations, and global teams.

Professional Experience

Founder - Product, GTM and AI SaaS

Topolo Technology Inc

Mar 2022 - Present Global / Remote

Founded and lead an AI-enabled business software platform spanning identity, CRM, roadmapping, billing, payments, workflow automation, developer tooling, and operational applications.

  • Translate complex AI and business-software capabilities into buyer-focused narratives, demonstrations, proof-of-concept flows, solution briefs, and practical commercial outcomes.
  • Own product positioning, commercial prioritisation, pricing and packaging decisions, customer workflow discovery, and partner requirements across a multi-product SaaS platform.
  • Build solution narratives across identity, CRM, billing, payments, AI workflows, analytics, developer tooling, support operations, and workflow automation.
  • Coordinate product, engineering, operations, support, and go-to-market priorities from initial customer need through scoped implementation and production handoff.
  • Bring current hands-on credibility in AI systems, automation, integrations, security, data, Cloudflare infrastructure, and enterprise implementation trade-offs.

Founder / CTO - Commercial, Product and Operations

Fresh Ventures - Livefreshr, JustCook, JustFeed

Mar 2014 - Jan 2026 Dubai, UAE

Built and operated UAE food-technology businesses across subscription commerce, B2B catering, customer platforms, mobile products, fulfilment, partnerships, and lifecycle operations.

  • Owned B2C and B2B commercial funnels spanning acquisition, pricing, proposals, customer conversion, retention, corporate partnerships, and catering contracts.
  • Developed corporate partnership and event propositions connecting customer needs with employer wellness, hospitality, and branded experiences.
  • Managed P&L, pricing, forecasting, vendor decisions, product delivery, and operational trade-offs across commercial and technical teams.
  • Built CRM, lifecycle messaging, WhatsApp, campaign, analytics, and retention workflows supporting sales visibility and customer growth.

TPP Partnerships Manager / Mid-Market Sales Manager - Event Technology SaaS

Cvent

Apr 2019 - Mar 2021 Dubai, UAE

Helped establish and grow Cvent's Middle East presence, selling event-management and hospitality SaaS to agencies, professional conference organisers, venues, and enterprise event teams.

  • Progressed from shared mid-market territory coverage to full regional ownership of the third-party planner segment within six months, with clear quota responsibility.
  • Managed the full SaaS sales cycle across prospecting, qualification, discovery, tailored demonstrations, proposals, multi-stakeholder negotiation, contract progression, and implementation handoff.
  • Mapped buyer workflows and commercial value across registration, venue sourcing, onsite experience, attendee engagement, event marketing, and reporting.
  • Partnered with SDR, marketing, product, implementation, and global teams to build pipeline, localise positioning, respond to customer requirements, and support regional growth.
  • Maintained disciplined CRM hygiene, sales activity, pipeline visibility, forecasting, and customer follow-up through in-person, hybrid, and fully remote selling environments.

Solution Consultant / Project Manager and Account Manager - Enterprise SaaS

XpertLearning

Feb 2013 - Sep 2016 UAE

Combined enterprise solution consulting, account development, and delivery for learning, talent, and HR technology customers across the GCC.

  • Supported new business and account growth through discovery, RFP responses, tailored demonstrations, solution design, stakeholder workshops, and commercial-to-technical translation.
  • Managed complex customer requirements across HR, L&D, IT, security, integrations, reporting, training, adoption, and go-live planning.
  • Built trusted relationships across business sponsors, operational owners, administrators, client IT teams, and vendor stakeholders.

Selected Systems

Agent-native delivery system

Practical development model using AI agents for implementation acceleration while retaining human control of architecture, decomposition, acceptance criteria, review, tests, evals, CI/CD, deployments, rollbacks, traces, and production readiness.

Business systems and SaaS foundation

Product and operator systems spanning identity, permissions, billing, CRM, roadmaps, notifications, AI gateway patterns, admin consoles, customer support, workflow automation, analytics, and service discovery.

Customer-facing solution design

Discovery, demos, stakeholder translation, integration planning, implementation support, reporting dashboards, and buyer-specific narratives built around practical business outcomes rather than branded product names.

Technical Skills

Sales, CRM & Prospecting

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, territory planning, account research, pipeline management, forecasting, opportunity progression, CRM hygiene, proposals, negotiation, and contract progression.

Solution Selling & Delivery

Discovery, executive workshops, solution demonstrations, RFP responses, proof of concept, business-case development, stakeholder mapping, objection handling, implementation planning, onboarding, adoption, and customer handoff.

AI, SaaS & Business Systems

OpenAI, Claude, Codex, MCP, AI workflow automation, CRM, identity, billing, payments, analytics, APIs, integrations, Cloudflare Workers, serverless platforms, data systems, security, and production operations.

GTM, Lifecycle & Collaboration

Positioning, pricing and packaging, partner motions, lifecycle messaging, WhatsApp Business API, Customer.io, Mailchimp, GA4, Looker Studio, Jira, Notion, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Workspace.

Certifications & Platform Experience

  • Enterprise SaaS implementation and solution consulting experience across learning, HR, CRM, lifecycle, analytics, and productivity platforms.
  • Production AI development practice using OpenAI, Claude, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, MCP, RAG, evals, and agent-assisted engineering workflows.
  • Cloud and delivery practice across Git, CI/CD, serverless infrastructure, observability, staged releases, rollback planning, and production operations.