Jon Sofield

Current

VP Business Development at Zvents
Founder at Podloco
Founder at Funderbirds

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Past

Sales & BD Strategy Consultant/Adviser at Vayuspherse
Sales & BD Consultant at RealTimeMatrix
Sales & BD Consultant at Akonix

VP Business Development at Intalio
VP Sales at Commerce One
CEO & Founder at TDS Internet
Director Sales UK at arbor software
Director Sales CPG & Retail at metaphor
Director Sales at pilot software
Major Account Manager at icl

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Education

Coventry University
The University of Bolton

Recommended

39 people have recommended Jon

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Consumer Services

Websites

Jon Sofield’s Summary

I have been working tech since leaving College with my Civil Eng degree and wondering why I ever spent 4 yrs doing such an intense subject. Learning from well established and big Tech companies I have focused on what makes me tick and what I am good at. 20+ yrs make you think hard to what your destiny holds, so rather than bore you with a great speach about how great I am with achievements of X in Y, let me be plane, what I do is make stuff happen. Over the last 10 yrs I have started 3 companies (2 of my own), success to me is about team work, relationships and identifying with your partner and customer. I have the pleasure of working with some of the best players in our field and continue to do so at my current venture, so at the end of the day I am a guy who likes green-field, complex problems, making things work (don't forget I am an engineer) and most of all creating revenue from repeatable and sustainable markets. All the rest is fluff....

Jon Sofield’s Specialties:

Breaking Glass
Opening doors
Building relationships at all levels
Doing Deals
Building Companies
Building teams
innovating
Creating
ALL WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR

Jon Sofield’s Experience

VP Business Development

Zvents

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

#1 Event search solution: A company to watch in 2007
Zvents is powering hundreds of Co-Brands with a discovery service that offers a solution to a simple paradigm, what to do in my neighborhood. We have a world class search team and a unique vision of where the next moentizable graph lays, watch this space.
Founder

Podloco

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Podcasting for the rest of us:
Aimed at Hyperlocal, looking to get users to contribute local content that matters to people around them. Education is a key focus, the website we be re-launched soon.

Looking for Content
Looking for Content Czars/Bloggers
Looking for Pod-Jockey's
Looking for Production staff
Founder

Funderbirds

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Cooperative Incubator for Web20 start-ups:
Using a private network of high qualified, talented start-up guy's offering, help, assistance, advice, office space, assets, money, free legal, free biz dev, free sales. Help kick start a business and give them maximum trajectory in Seed & Series A

If your interested in helping out and know me then send me a note/email
Sales & BD Strategy Consultant/Adviser

Vayuspherse

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Leading IM Application technology company, serving Enterprise to SMB, Business to consumer with class leading, innovative ideas/solutions for Messaging solutions. Think Twitter with bells on, Meebo with applications, Vayu has built the most creative and robust XMPP apps today in the market.
Sales & BD Consultant

RealTimeMatrix

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)

innovative, useful correlation technology. Can be applied to many different agenda's, today their focus is Widgets and Consumer content. Jeff Whitehead is a visionary, who is committed to expose our world to the possibilities of Real-Time valued content.

Rob Roundtree is behind their publishing engine, brilliant mind, very mature technician who is at the heart of the company.
Sales & BD Consultant

Akonix

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Had an interesting idea of developing a platform strategy for next generation business and consumer IM applications. Unfortunately this did not make it.

Kip is an old friend and great Sales leader, currently they are #1 in the market for IM security and compliance. Peter Shaw is a unique leader and provide Akonix with strength and stability in their market.
VP Business Development

Intalio

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years)

A rare experience these days, truly brilliant engineering created a platform way ahed in their market. Led by one of the most intelligent and visionary young men I have met since arriving in the Bay Area, Ismail Ghalimi. Helped by a world class Architect they have created a unique and brilliant basis for developing next generation Process
VP Sales

Commerce One

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)

Founder of Commerce One Europe, held senior positions in Sales and General Management, US, EMEA and Global

Notable Mentions:
Mark Hoffman for hiring me
Mark Biestman for mentoring me
Eric Meier for managing me and mentoring me
Keith Cotterill for being Keith and being brilliant
john Styles for partnering with me in the early days to give it s shot
David Hundley for making stuff work and being brilliant
CEO & Founder

TDS Internet

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1996 — May 1998 (1 year 7 months)

Funded start-up in the emerging Ecommerce space. Succesful in signing first European customers for eprocurement systems. Ran a team of 20.
Director Sales UK

arbor software

(Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year)
Director Sales CPG & Retail

metaphor

(Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year)
Director Sales

pilot software

(Broadcast Media industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Major Account Manager

icl

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1992 (5 years)

Jon Sofield’s Education

Coventry University

Beng Hons , Civil Engineering , 1983 — 1987
The University of Bolton

Business & Economic Diploma 1982 — 1983

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Jon Sofield’s Interests:

Strategic Planning, Rowing, Tennis, Golf, Photography, Apple MAC, Web 2.0, Office 2.0, Cooking, Grilling, BBQing, Fishing, Family, Daughter, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Watches, Walking, Hiking, Mountain Climbing, Camping, Outdoors, Wildlife, Animals, my dog Lucy, my Cat Micha, blogs, reading blogs, sunday newspapers from the UK, fish and chips, a Curry at 11:30pm in Twickenham high street, my Ma & Pa, my 1994 Mazda truck, beer, wine, booze, laughter, comedy, being with fun and happy people, looking at old photographs and wondering what the hell I was thinking 20 years ago, Thomas Power because he is the most interesting person on the planet