Chris Heard
About Chris Heard
Picture yourself cold calling for life insurance in Birmingham in 2008. That's where my career started. And I'm talking about the OG Birmingham, not the one with the white sauce. From cold calling to people while they watch Coronation St. to leading Olive Technologies to transform the IT sourcing process it's been quite a journey. Since leaving the UK and arriving in North America, my career has been focused on sales and GTM for technology companies across the US and Canada. With a few stints as a poker player, flair bartender, stand-up comic, and co-founder of a leggings company, I settled into the B2B SaaS market. Building sales and business development functions for tech companies of various sizes. Finally in 2019 I took the plunge with my co-founder to build my own SaaS product, Olive. We have built Olive from a napkin idea in a basement (actually from a 1 bed apartment in Vancouver but same thing) to an international company that is disrupting the IT sourcing space and the premium RFP solution for sourcing technology. Outside of work I am passionate about my little family of 2, and the ocean. Whenever possible I try to get out on the water and do my best to keep our oceans healthy for future generations of all the animals on the planet.