MEET OUR FOUNDER

Mike Lambert

Mike Lambert started Lambert Advisory in 2021 after 25+ years leading go-to-market teams at multiple high-growth software companies. Lambert Advisory is focused on the early stage of company development (pre-seed to series C) where “getting it right” the first time can maximize long-term success.

Prior to his focus on board and advisor roles, Mike Lambert was the President of Field Operations at SentryOne where he led go-to-market teams including sales, channel, support, customer success, and marketing. He guided the company through a complicated sales restructuring, immediately improving sales growth from relatively flat to 65% YoY growth. He maintained a high-growth culture during a pandemic which led to a successful acquisition by SolarWinds for $142.5m in October of 2020.

Prior to that he was the Chief Revenue Officer at OutSystems where he grew that Low Code software company 60+% YoY from $65m ARR. During that time Mike participated in raising $360m from KKR and Goldman Sachs. He also ran Global Sales at CloudBees growing ARR by 10X in just over 3 years. In 2001 he became employee number 5 at a project based consulting firm focused on middleware development. Leading sales and marketing from a single customer to an acquisition by Red Hat in 2008. He then stayed on for 5 years as the Managing Director of Portfolio Solutions for North America. In this role he oversaw sales teams of specialists focused on Middleware, Storage, Virtualization, and Cloud..

Mike specializes in building top tier teams, new product launch positioning, go-to-market strategy, and strategic acquisitions. Mr. Lambert is a proven performer with hands-on knowledge that enables him to build world class teams that leverage his individual know-how on a broader scale for customer acquisition, ongoing account management, and strategic positioning. He is known not only for his excellent performance in sales, how to build a strong customer success organization, but for his passion in envisioning and implementing highly effective marketing and public relations programs.

Career Experience

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 SentryOne, President of Field Operations

SentryOne empowers organizations to optimize performance across the Microsoft data platform. It is one of the fastest growing companies in the performance management sector of the software industry with thousands of customers in over thirty countries.

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OutSystems, Chief Revenue Officer

Thousands of customers around the world trust OutSystems as the number one low-code platform for rapid application development. The only solution to combine visual full-stack app dev with continuous life cycle management, OutSystems is the fastest way to deliver enterprise-grade multi-channel applications. The result – OutSystems’ customers are transforming their businesses by delivering application 6 to 10 times faster compared to traditional application development.

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CloudBees, V.P. of Worldwide Sales

CloudBees, the Enterprise Jenkins Company, is the continuous delivery (CD) leader. CloudBees provides solutions that enable DevOps teams to respond rapidly to the software delivery needs of the business. Building on the strength of Jenkins, the world’s most popular open source continuous delivery hub and ecosystem, the CloudBees Jenkins Platform provides a wide range of CD solutions that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises. The CloudBees Jenkins Platform supports many of the world’s largest and most business-critical deployments.

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Red Hat, Managing Director of Portfolio Solutions

Red Hat revolutionized the operating system with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. Now, they have a broad portfolio, including hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, agile integration, cloud-native application development, and management and automation solutions. Red Hat delivers hardened, open source solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge. By operating transparently and responsibly, we continue to be a catalyst in open source communities, helping you build flexible, powerful IT infrastructure solutions.

Advisor Roles

QuotaPath Investor

Software

QuotaPath helps sales teams design fully customizable compensation plans, forecast commissions in real-time, and surface insights in one easy-to-use dashboard. No more manual calculations or data entry.

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Operating Advisor

Venture Capital

Founded in 2007, we are a private equity firm focused on investments in lower-middle market Technology & Business Services and Consumer Products & Services companies in the United States and Canada. We have raised $1.7 billion since inception across our firm.

TZP has three pillars of differentiation: acting as a Partner of Choice for entrepreneurial owners and management teams; managing the firm as a Company, Not a Deal Shop which makes us better owners and more effective operational advisors; and establishing the TZP Platform with proprietary, scaled capabilities and diverse strategies.

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Limited Partner & Advisor

Venture Capital • Boston, MA • New York, NY

The Go-To-Market Venture Capital Fund backed by elite GTM executives investing in and helping software companies scale sustainable revenue.

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Advisor

Software • Raleigh, NC

Allstacks is a predictive analytics platform that aggregates data from all product development related data sources to give program and engineering management meaningful metrics that allow them to report and forecast project progress, health, and productivity. For example, a stack from which we would gather data could be Jira, Github, Slack, CircleCI, BugZilla, and Google Apps. From these sources, we develop blended metrics, like defect normalized developer productivity, that deliver insight into where project managers need to focus to remove roadblocks and keep projects moving.

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Advisor

Software • Cambridge, MA

Our mission is to help sales teams sell more, by making it easy to implement modern, scientific sales management.Acuity3D® (Data-Driven Decisions) enables B2B sales teams to Realize the Upside®  — to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, combined with the unlimited computing power of the Cloud, to optimize Sales results.

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Advisor

Software • Arlington, VA

configure8 empowers developers to easily create, manage, and discover services, regardless of how and where they are running, via a single GUI or CLI.

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Advisor

Software • San Francisco, CA

testRigor AI is an autonomous, low-maintenance, ultra-stable functional UI regression and exploratory testing solution that reduces grunt work and accelerates delivery. Reduce QA overhead, lead a more efficient QA team, and scale painlessly.

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Sales Coach

Boston, MA

Serving as a sales coach to students in the class in Technology Sales (TSales), a second year elective (EC) class at Harvard Business School (HBS). The class covers basic sales, sales management, advanced sales management and managing complex sales transactions, organizations and integrations.

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Mentor

Richmond, VA

Startup Virginia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for Virginia. With support from our community partners, mentors, investors and donors, we help entrepreneurs of high-growth startups reach their full potential.

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Mentor/Advisor

San Francisco, CA

The Alchemist Accelerator is a new venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.

 
 
 
 

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