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About

Direct, on purpose.

I live and work in Greater Philadelphia. I prefer a short meeting to a long email, and a clear no to a polite maybe.

I spent most of my career in commercial revenue seats: Verizon, Gannett, AOL/Patch, and as Chief Revenue Officer of MobyMax, where I scaled a go-to-market team to ninety-six people. I know what a healthy pipeline looks like. I know what a bloated one looks like, too.

Process is a form of respect. Six Sigma Black Belt, Villanova, 2009. Neumann University before that. The credential matters less than the habit: find the constraint, fix the system, tell the truth about the rest.

I have a daughter who has lived with rheumatoid arthritis since she was nine. That fact has a way of stripping the jargon off words like “impact” and “performance.” People first. Then the number. Then the machine that lets both hold.

Brian Marella, Sales & Revenue Operations Executive
Brian Marella. Greater Philadelphia.

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What I’m looking for

A leadership seat where sales and revenue operations are the job: VP Sales, CRO, Chief Revenue or Development, Head of RevOps. Commercial companies and mission-driven organizations both. Growth stage or turnaround — as long as the work is real.

While I look, I run an independent practice, Operation Impact, helping teams put a commercial-grade operating system under their number. It is the same muscle. It is not the whole story.

I do not do slide-deck consulting, and I do not audition for theater. If a conversation isn’t useful, I will say so. Respect, in this chair, is showing up prepared and not wasting the hour.

Open notebook and fountain pen on a walnut desk in window light.
Notes before the meeting. Always.

How I work

  • Read the org, then the deck

    CRM, pipeline, forecast. I start in the system of record, not the talking points.

  • Coach, don’t helicopter

    Frameworks that leave with the consultant are theater. Fluency that stays with the team is the job.

  • Tell the truth early

    A clear no in fifteen minutes is a gift. A polite maybe that burns a quarter is not.

Next

If this is the conversation you wanted, book it.

Thirty minutes. No pitch theater. If we are not a fit, we will know quickly.

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