Christian Theis has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Christian started their career as a Sales Trainee at Compaq Computer Corporation, where they completed various sales training programs and gained hands-on experience working with experienced Key Account Managers. Christian later became a Key Account Manager in the "Global Account Sector," with Germany-wide responsibility for the customer Deutsche Bank.
Moving forward, Theis joined IBM in 2001, initially as a Business Development Manager and later as a Category Leader eServer Sales/Business Development Manager. In these roles, they focused on creating and implementing new sales approaches in the IBM Unix environment, emphasizing technical/commercial arguments like TCO analysis and ROI considerations.
In 2006, Theis transitioned to become a Client Executive for Telecom and Media companies at IBM. Christian had overall responsibility for sales, including hardware, software, services, and consulting. Notable achievements during this time included doubling revenue with a "global player" in the media industry and closing a multi-year contract to build one of the largest digital archives in Europe.
From 2011 to 2014, Theis worked as an Enterprise Account Manager for Avid Technology, a leading provider of IT technology in the media industry. Christian had overall responsibility for sales, including consulting, software development, and training. Christian managed accounts for major clients such as ZDF, WDR, and RTL.
In 2014, Theis joined Quantum GmbH as a Regional Sales Manager Scale Out Storage, where they focused on reconstructing the market for big data solutions and creating a new solution sales-oriented go-to-market distribution model.
Theis continued to expand their expertise in the cloud industry, working as an Account Manager Cloud & Hosting at Vodafone from 2015 to 2018. Christian was responsible for public and media customers, securing notable achievements such as winning the first Object Storage customer and implementing a system integrator solution for media asset management.
From 2018 to 2020, Theis served as a Partner Account Manager Certified Cloud Service Provider at Red Hat GmbH. Christian'srole involved managing all cloud and service providers, both existing and new, and positioning and selling container and cloud solutions such as OpenShift, OpenStack, and RHEL.
Christian then joined Nordcloud, an IBM Company, as a Senior Account Executive from 2020 to 2021. In this role, Theis was responsible for selling professional services for cloud consulting, migrations, and optimizations on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Most recently, Theis worked at Puppet as a Principal Account Director from 2021 to 2022. Christian focused on serving existing and new customers in their region, selling software for configuration management, automation, and DevOps. Christian achieved a target of 190% in the first half of 2022.
Currently, Theis holds the position of Senior Account Manager at Cloudreach, an Atos company, starting in November 2022. Christian'sresponsibilities include selling professional services for cloud consulting, migrations, and optimizations on AWS, GCP, and Azure for both existing and new customers.
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