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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1225 Enterprise Management Company Alfresco Passes $100M ARR, IPO Next?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Bernadette Nixon, Alfresco’s CEO, leads the company’s strategy for growth, customer commitment and culture. Bernadette is an experienced global leader with a proven track record of growing some of the leading companies in the market and has a wealth of experience in the process and content management industry. Before joining Alfresco, Bernadette served as President of SDL PLC., a global software and professional services company, after having grown its sales team as chief revenue officer. Prior to SDL, she held positions at OpenText, a leading ECM company, as General Manager and Senior Vice President of its BPM Business Unit & Corporate Sales. She was EVP of Sales for the Americas at Metastorm, and served in similar roles at CA Technologies, InterQuad and NCR. Bernadette also held the position of Deputy CIO for the United Nations in Geneva. Bernadette received a BA in Business Studies in Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadettenixon/

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0:00.0

Guys, you can't solve everything. Sometimes you just have to move on. She joined Alfresco,

0:05.0

joined, really moving up the ranks in 2016. The company before her had raised, call it,

0:09.3

you know, 50-ish million bucks. There is another 45 million just before she joined. So about 90 million

0:13.3

in the company before in 2017, about a year after she joined, they were essentially taken private.

0:18.2

She's now continuing to drive incredible growth over 100, really best in class in terms of net revenue retention over 100 percent, serving over

0:25.1

1,300 customers paying anywhere, you know, and at tens of thousands if they're older customers. Up

0:29.8

to now, they're signing new customers at the $300,000, $500,000, $500,000 ACV levels growing rapidly

0:35.3

with 350 people all around the world. This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies

0:43.3

and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer

0:52.0

counts, and other insider information that creates business

0:56.1

news headlines. We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

1:01.3

I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

1:06.6

We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers.

1:15.3

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

1:20.1

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

1:24.1

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

1:25.7

Hello, everyone.

1:29.7

My guest today is Bernadette Nixon. She is the CEO of Alfresco and leads to company's strategy for growth, customer, commitment, and culture. She's an experienced

1:34.2

global leader with a proven track record of growing some of the leading companies in the market

1:37.8

and has a wealth of experience in the process and content management industry as a whole. Before

1:43.0

joining Alfresco, Bernadette served as president

1:45.2

of SDLPLC at global software and professional services company after having grown its sales team

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