- Goldberg joins Permira with more than two decades of go-to-market experience in some of the world’s largest SaaS and enterprise software companies
- As an Executive in Residence (EiR), Steve will support portfolio company management teams with a focus on deal origination and scaling global, high-performance GTM teams
- EiRs to further strengthen Permira’s value creation expertise to support portfolio growth at scale
Menlo Park, 18 April 2024 – Permira, the global private equity firm, today announced the appointment of former Salesloft CRO Steve Goldberg as its first Executive in Residence (EiR). The EiR initiative seeks to build a team of former operators that will advise and support portfolio companies, in conjunction with Permira’s dedicated Value Creation Team and Senior Advisers.
Steve brings to Permira a proven track record in building and scaling global go-to-market (GTM) teams in some of the world’s largest enterprise software businesses. He was formerly the Chief Revenue Officer at Salesloft, where he led global revenue growth from approximately $50m to more than $200m and was responsible for growing the enterprise business from 20% of global revenue to 57% over a four-year period.
Prior to that, Steve served as Group VP of Enterprise at Yext, where he architected and designed the processes for GTM verticals including in the Financial Services and Healthcare teams. Previously in his career, Steve spent nearly a decade at Salesforce, where he was responsible for putting together and executing some of the largest SaaS cloud transactions at that point in time across high tech, telecommunications and retail.
In his new role with Permira, Steve will leverage his industry knowledge, network and experience in sales growth to advise on value creation across the deal lifecycle, with a focus on go-to-market strategy and execution.
Steve Goldberg, Executive in Residence at Permira, said: “I’m thrilled to start working with Permira to leverage my experience in scaling software businesses to support executives and founders to execute their go-to-market strategies. I’m excited by the strength of Permira’s value creation capabilities in supporting management teams drive incremental growth across both market incumbents and disruptors, and look forward to the journey ahead together.”
Andrew Young, Partner at Permira, said: “We’re excited to welcome Steve as our first Executive in Residence. Finding new, innovative ways to support founders and management teams in driving value creation is paramount for us, so we’re pleased to bring this concept to the firm to further bolster our commitment to acting as a chosen partner for growth. Steve is an experienced go-to-market leader across the technology sector and his expertise will be of great value to us and our portfolio partners going forward.”
In addition to EiRs, Permira’s commitment to value creation across the portfolio is seen through its dedicated Value Creation Team, which comprises more than 20 operating experts that support management teams across the portfolio as they drive and accelerate growth, and a deep bench of Senior Advisers, which support investment and management teams to both identify new investment opportunities and scale champions globally. Recent appointments to this team include PayPal Chief Product Officer John Kim, and Amol Kulkarni, the former Chief Product and Engineering Office at CrowdStrike.
