About Karl Robinson
I am an experienced sales professional who has spent over 13 years in the IT & Internet Industry, specialising in hosting and hosted services. Prior to founding StratoGen I co-founded Cloud Data, another provider of hosted services, at the same time as heading up the sales operation of UK based SAAS provider In-Tuition Networks. As Managing Director of Mistral Internet Group Limited, a UK business Internet Service Provider I lead the growth of the business from £2m to £21m in a 7 year period. This growth was recognised in the Sunday Times Techtrack 100 where Mistral was listed as one of the UK’s fastest growing technology companies for 4 out of 5 consecutive years. I was responsible for driving the organic growth of the business through over 20 sales staff, plus he was instrumental in the acquisition and integration of 9 other businesses before ultimately being involved in the disposal of Mistral to Kingston Communications. Mistral was sold to Kingston Communications in January 2007 and I stayed on as Sales Director of the newly formed Internet and Hosting Services division. When not working, I can usually be found riding, racing or tinkering with motorbikes, and spending time with my family.
We’re off to VMworld – What do we hope to learn?
There seem to be a lot of exciting developments in the pipeline, and there are a few things we hope to be enlightened on while we’re there.
Hopefully we’ll get the answers to these questions and more – we’ll post what we are allowed to next week!