Kate Petrone

Kate Petrone has a diverse work experience beginning in 2008 as a Bartender/Server/Hostess at Phao Thai Kitchen, where they skillfully coordinated dining room seating, time managed a busy restaurant environment, and welcomed guests. In 2013, they interned at Vered Gallery, managing the gallery, answering phone calls, coordinating shipping of valuable artwork, tracking inventory, editing the gallery's website, and greeting customers and influential artists exhibiting work there. From 2014 to 2020, they worked at Mindbody as a Software Sales and Market Qualification Representative, where they were accountable for all aspects of sales, including pursuing qualified prospects via cold calling, scheduling and performing web demonstrations, growing and managing a sales pipeline, and managing a sales cycle from initial contact to close over the phone. Kate consistently met and exceeded 100% of sales quota, managed a high volume of inbound/outbound prospects while maintaining daily KPI's, took a risk selling in a Canadian territory and led North America in sales and MSR Q3 2019 & Q4 2019, built and maintained client/prospect relationships to ensure client satisfaction and leverage new referrals, helped implement a new inbound strategy which increased inbound conversion by 30% Q1-Q4 2016, maintained a retention rate of 97%, and was recognized as a valuable team player with a strong, self motivating work ethic. In 2020, they started working at Close as an Account Executive and Senior Account Executive, calling inbound leads that have signed up for a 14-day free trial or requested a meeting, answering incoming sales & email inquiries from prospects, and qualifying and understanding a prospect's needs.

Kate Petrone received their High School Diploma from The Ross School in 2005, after attending from 2002-2005. Kate then attended Lycoming College for one year in 2005 before transferring to School of Visual Arts, where they earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography in 2010.