Meet The Team...
Patrick Pissang
Leadership & Coach
Patrick trains Sales Engineering heroes who want to be independent, authentic and thought-leading professionals.
His book "The Social Sales Engineer" tells a motivating story about the craft.
With Ikuto's Josh Hill, Patrick incepted "The School" in 2021.
Patrick takes responsibility for content, training, and coaching Sales Engineers. In addition, he teams up with Simone to make every student as successful as possible.
Josh Hill
Leadership
Josh is the Co-founder & Sales Director of Ikuto. He has a passion for PreSales and helping new professionals enter the space.
He recognised the shortage of diversity and opportunities for new talent to enter the industry, and so, in collaboration with Patrick, began to create 'TheSchool'
Josh takes responsibility for onboarding candidates onto the course and for supporting their journey into a new PreSales career.
Simone Schuettler
Coach
When Simone met Patrick she had successfully worked in Sales Engineering for 22 years.
She is enthusiastic about the idea of motivating Professionals for being a Sales Engineer. She enjoys sharing her experience as a Sales Engineer for Business Applications in various responsibilities like Industry Expert, Value Selling Specialist and Customer Advocate.
David Stephens
Head of Delivery
Dave is responsible for sourcing and onboarding candidates into the program and supporting candidates going to market, including CV and job interview preparation
Ivor Lawton
Delivery Consultant
Ivor is an experienced recruitment consultant who will be responsible for working with candidates to place them in The School, and will then provide support to find PreSales roles on successful completion of the course.
Kelly Craddock
Delivery Consultant
Kelly will work alongside candidates as they join The School, and on successful completion of the course, will be responsible for finding roles within the PreSales community.
Holly Gibbs
Marketing Manager
Holly is responsible for marketing The School, including creating promotional content for the website and Social media channels