Demetrios N. Skalkotos is a passionate entrepreneur, supportive leader, and great analyst. He is SVP Global Head of Sales at Blockdaemon. He resides in New York, United States. An expert excels at leading elevated performance sales organizations at the greatest stages of international business, providing successful strategic initiatives in speedy growth environments, managing change to public new markets, and productively enhancing revenue. Acquires a leadership approach and people-centric style which allows him to work effectively across an organization and inspire standout contributions from his business teams. Graduated from Ball State University, earning a Master’s degree in Science, Information and Communication Sciences, and a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Management Information Systems, Science. He is a highly skillful personality possessing the knowledge of more than 50 industrial, technological, and interpersonal skills including strategy, startups, business development, mergers & acquisitions, business strategy, SaaS, leadership, and product development.
He has an experience of more than 34 years and previously served in numerous fields holding several positions including strategic relationship manager, account executive, and national accounts at AT&T Corporation, vice president of sales & business development at EVault, senior vice president at NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions, advisor for High-Growth Technology, PE & financial companies, etc. He also gained additional knowledge from several courses including complex selling, consultative selling, persuasive edge sales & presentation skills, and strategic selling. At present, he is Volunteering on an advisory board at Finding Genius, which enables University/Campus recruiters to dramatically broaden student outreach and significantly deepen student engagement, and Kaiko, a market data provider in the blockchain-based cryptocurrency space, offers institutional investors and market participants. He was honored by the Deal of the Year Award, issued by Global M&A Network in January 2013, and Gold President’s Award, issued by NASDAQ in January 2006.