OpenPhone, developers of innovative phone and messaging service for small and midsize businesses, announced that Giancarlo Gialle has joined the company as its Head of Sales. Giancarlo has a proven track record of scaling sales organizations and turbocharging revenue at companies focused on the SMB market. He joins OpenPhone to further support its mission of helping professionals communicate more efficiently.
Prior to joining OpenPhone, Giancarlo was the head of SMB, North America at Pinterest where he led the sales organization responsible for increasing customers’ top-line revenue growth via promoted pins. Under Giancarlo’s leadership, the North America SMB team grew annual recurring revenue from $50 million to over $400 million in four years.
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“We are very excited to have Giancarlo join the OpenPhone team. His experience taking SMB sales at Pinterest from zero to one is directly applicable to the sales motion OpenPhone needs. This is the right time to build an effective sales function on top of the incredible product-led growth we already have,” said OpenPhone Co-Founder and CEO Mahyar Raissi.
OpenPhone is an Internet-based phone and messaging service that is disrupting the antiquated and clunky business telecommunications market. It replaces traditional business phones designed primarily for voice communication with intuitive and full-featured mobile and desktop applications. OpenPhone includes features such as messaging and collaborative tools to meet the needs of business and integrates with other productivity applications and tools on which businesses rely, such as HubSpot, Slack, email, and Zapier. OpenPhone automates workflows and enhances business relationships for a new generation of companies, startups, and professionals.
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The company has grown rapidly in three years and already serves more than 20,000 customers. OpenPhone has the highest rating of any business phone application in Apple’s App Store and was named the best business phone by G2 and Capterra.
“I am excited to be joining OpenPhone as the company has cracked the code on simplifying communications for startups and small businesses all over the world,” said Giancarlo. “There has been an unmatched pace of innovation in collaborative applications in the last decade, but phone systems for small businesses have remained unchanged until now. I am excited to help put OpenPhone on millions of mobile phones and desktops and change the way businesses communicate.”
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