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Pietro Aiolfi

Casorezzo

Summary

Presales Systems Engineer and Manager with a wide experience in infrastructure and security solutions. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science and bring robust experience as a Manager of Sales Engineering and Presales Engineer. My background includes expertise in Solution Selling, Team Management, and CXO Level Engagement. I excel at evaluating technology solutions and leading high-performing teams to drive business growth. My professional journey is marked by a commitment to delivering value and developing strategic relationships with C-level executives. I am adept at presenting complex solutions in a clear, compelling manner, ensuring alignment with business objectives. As a manager, I've an extensive experience in managing distributed and multicultural teams with high people retention rate. My wide experience as IT professional can easily fit into different roles, as manager or individual contributor, for presales, consultancy and it departments opportunities.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager of Customer Success

Varonis
01.2025 - Current

As Manager of Customer Success, I'm currently leading a team of 5 Technical Account Manager in my region (Italy and Iberia).

Key responsibilities for the role are:

• Building a new team of Customer Success Managers and Technical Account Managers,, focusing on providing value to customers immediately post-activation of the Varonis platform.
• Develop customer-centric strategies, mapping the Varonis platform to customer use cases, and supporting with Governance, risk, and compliance challenges.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and retention by helping secure their data and adding additional data sources to the Varonis platform.

Manager of Sales Engineering - Southern Europe

Varonis
01.2019 - 12.2024

I managed a team of 6 people: 2 sales engineers for Italy and 4 people for Iberia (1 team leader and 3 sales engineers).

Working close to regional director and VP of sales, I was focusing on improving sales and pre-sales skills and performances; I was also helping sales teams on most critical opportunities and managing strategic meetings with C-level people and business stakeholders.

My responsibilities also include building and maintaining relationships with the key focus partner for the region

SE Team Leader Southern Europe

Varonis
11.2015 - 12.2018

I was in charge of the Sales Engineer Team for Italy and Iberia managing a team of three Sales Engineer.

During the three years, team growths from 3 to 6 members with a very good people retention rate.

I was regularly involved with most critical customers and prospects, driving a consistent increase in customers and ARR.

Sales Engineer

Varonis
01.2015 - 11.2015

I started as first Sales Engineer on field helping the company to quickly increase the customer base and closing some of very first biggest deals for the country (over 300K€ PL) and hitting my quota in ten months (2M€).

Working with two Sales Representatives I was also in charge of Technical Account Management tasks to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.

In addition, my routines also included Channel Partner enablement and support.

Infrastructure Design&Build System Engineer

QVC
03.2014 - 12.2014

Part of a European team fo system engineers, I was responsible for designing and implementing virtualization and storage solutions across each European QVC branch.

Server Infrastructure Specialist

QVC
06.2011 - 02.2014

Reporting to the IT Manager, I was responsible for the operation, administration and improvement of distributed IT environments, making sure that the infrastructure will meet all the business requirements.

ICT Consultant

Unisys
02.2008 - 05.2011

System consultant on the following technologies: Microsoft and VMware.

Managing and implementing virtualization solutions, e-mail solutions and disaster recovery solutions.

Consultant

Newits
02.2002 - 02.2008

Systems Engineer and Web developer.

Education

Master's degree - Computer Science

Università degli Studi di Milano
12.2007

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

Università degli Studi di Milano
12.2005

High school diploma - undefined

Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo da Vinci"
12.2001

Skills

  • Technology Evaluation
  • Solution & Value Selling
  • C-Level Presentations and engagements
  • People Management
  • Consultative Selling
  • Project Management
  • ITIL
  • Information Security
  • Team leadership

Certification

  • MEDDPICC by Saleshood, 04/01/23
  • ITIL V3 Foundation, 12/01/12
  • VMware Certified Professional 6 - Datacenter Virtualization, 10/01/15
  • VMware Certified Professional 6 - Desktop, 11/01/15
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 - Datacenter Virtualization, 01/01/13
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 - Desktop, 08/01/13
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 - Cloud, 10/01/14
  • EMC Proven Professional Expert, Cloud Architect, IT-as-a-Service Expert, 07/01/15
  • EMC Proven Professional Specialist - Cloud Architect, Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist, 06/01/15

Languages

English
Italian

Hobbies and Interests

  • Running
  • Photography

Timeline

Manager of Customer Success

Varonis
01.2025 - Current

Manager of Sales Engineering - Southern Europe

Varonis
01.2019 - 12.2024

SE Team Leader Southern Europe

Varonis
11.2015 - 12.2018

Sales Engineer

Varonis
01.2015 - 11.2015

Infrastructure Design&Build System Engineer

QVC
03.2014 - 12.2014

Server Infrastructure Specialist

QVC
06.2011 - 02.2014

ICT Consultant

Unisys
02.2008 - 05.2011

Consultant

Newits
02.2002 - 02.2008

Bachelor's degree - Computer Science

Università degli Studi di Milano

High school diploma - undefined

Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo da Vinci"

Master's degree - Computer Science

Università degli Studi di Milano
Pietro Aiolfi