Homerun Presales
Brian Lewis has a diverse range of work experiences in various roles and industries. Brian co-founded and served as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Homerun Presales, an all-in-one platform for managing presales efforts. Additionally, they worked as an Advisor for Homerun Presales and PreSales Collective. Brian also held the position of GTM (Go-To-Market) Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck, a startup accelerator at UC Berkeley. Brian provided GTM advisory services for Willow Labs, a company focused on wildfire risk modeling, through its partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck.
Prior to their advisory roles, Brian worked at Wolters Kluwer as a Presales Leader and Vice President of Product Management. Brian joined the company through the acquisition of Vanguard Software, where they served as the Executive Vice President and Presales Leader. Vanguard Software was an enterprise forecasting and planning software company with a global customer base.
Brian's earlier experiences include co-founding and serving as President and Head of (Pre)Sales at Accomplice.IO, a digital marketing software startup, and CrowdLogic, a software company specializing in innovative analytical solutions. Brian also served as an Advisor for Gigwell, a platform for booking and managing live entertainment, and held various leadership roles at Vanguard Software Corporation, including Vice President of Sales/Presales and Services.
Throughout their career, Brian has demonstrated expertise in presales, product management, and business integration. Brian has received recognition for their contributions, including being named the Distinguished Team Member of the Year at Wolters Kluwer.
Brian Lewis has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. Brian also holds a Master of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. Finally, Brian obtained their PhD in Industrial and System Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Homerun Presales
Homerun Presales is a self-funded, profitable, and growing rapidly presales software company. We are the presales workspace that gets you through your day with one place to track, manage, organize and inform your presales efforts. High performing presales teams such as Demostack, AppViewX, Graylog, JupiterOne, Cortex, INKY, DataGrail, and othersuse Homerun to achieve exceptional results:- 20% increase in deal win rates- 15% decrease in sales cycle durations- 8 hours saved per week per sales engineer- 4 weeks saved in new hire onboardingHomerun is SOC2 certified and GDPR compliant.We are proud to be self-funded, profitable, and growing rapidly because of our amazing customers.Homerun modernizes presales and connects it to the organization (presales, sales, marketing, product, and post-sales/customer success) to help presales team show their direct impact on sales and their extended impact on more competitive products, more data-driven marketing, and easier pre-sales to post-sales transitions.Origin Story: We built the first version of Homerun as a tool for ourselves to make our daily lives more organized as presales engineers. We were managing multiple deals at any given time, jumping from customer calls to demos to POCs and back. We were using multiple tools: our CRM, notepad, docs, spreadsheets… you name it, we were using it. One day, we had enough and started coding. Today, presales teams have Homerun.Learn more at www.homerunpresales.com