Benedikt Gaertner

Financial Analyst

2025 - Current

Co-Founder

2025

Account Executive | UK, Ireland and South Africa

2023 - 2025

• Consulting and partnering with CXOs and Business Executives to transform their critical IT- and business priorities into tangible business outcomes and ROI through Gartner's world-class capabilities. • Member of the Gartner Retention Champion Program, having achieved a 95% retention rate in my first year and 100% in my second. As a member of this program, I actively support my team in enhancing their retention rates by conducting training sessions and offering one-on-one mentoring. • Serving on the Associate Experience Board, where I contribute to planning and organizing social, cultural, and charity events, fostering a vibrant and inclusive workplace environment.

Sales Engineer and Product Cohort Lead

2022 - 2024

• Spearheaded Strategic Collaboration: Partnered with Gartner sales teams to identify and recommend products addressing the operational challenges of prospects. • Tailored Insights Platform Demonstrations: Crafted customized platform showcases to demonstrate the value of Gartner services, accelerating sales cycles and conquering prospects priorities. • Product Cohort Leader & Mentor: Directed product cohort, overseeing workshops, providing constructive feedback, and optimizing internal structures. Contributed to team growth and streamlined product development, aligning with organizational objectives. • Winner of several awards and recognitions: Champion Mindset Award 2023, 2023 NCE Bright Light Award, Q4 Competition Peer Nominated Fan Favorite Award for strong leadership in our EMEA team • Global Top Performer with over $21M in closed contract value

Business Development Associate - Capital Market Accounts

2022 - 2022

• Client-Centric Expertise: Empowered with the responsibility of comprehending client needs, meticulously mapping out industries and organizations, and executing a targeted search strategy. Delivered direct access to the knowledge-owners who amplify client thinking. • Multi-Faceted Client Engagement: Proficiently juggled multiple client requests concurrently, swiftly identifying industry experts, and assessing their alignment with client requirements. • Proactive Client Excellence: Provided impeccable client service through proactive follow-ups and strategic recommendations, ensuring that client needs were not just met, but exceeded. • Seamless Expert-Client Connections: Facilitated direct connections between industry experts and clients across a wide spectrum of Capital Markets services, catalyzing growth and opportunities.

Student Employee - Sales

2019 - 2021

• E-commerce Pioneering: Spearheaded a groundbreaking pilot project in the e-commerce sector, leveraging market insights to drive innovation and revenue growth. • Strategic Pricing and Bonus Guidance: Crafted a comprehensive management guide for designing competitive price and bonus conditions for trading partners, enhancing profitability and market share. • Market Expansion Mastery: Collaborated on the successful entry of the French subsidiary, VIRAX, into the German market, delivering strategic insights and execution excellence. • Market Intelligence and Competition Analysis: Produced market and competitive analyses to empower management decisions, leading to a competitive edge in sales. • Sales Process Optimization: Played a pivotal role in streamlining sales processes, maximizing efficiency, and driving revenue acceleration. • Nationwide Roadshow Excellence: Orchestrated a high-impact, nationwide roadshow throughout 2019, actively engaging and captivating audiences over a three-month period, strengthening brand presence and market reach.

Co-Founder

2019 - 2020

• Established a networking platform for plumbers and related professionals, demonstrating entrepreneurial skills and the ability to build and scale a business from the ground up. • Led the development of the company’s website and spearheaded marketing initiatives, highlighting experience in strategic growth and brand positioning – key skills for identifying value in early-stage ventures. • Secured €25,000 in Series A funding, showcasing an understanding of investor relations, fundraising processes, and the ability to attract capital, which are crucial for origination roles in PE/VC

Student Employee

2016 - 2017

• Cutting-Edge Chemical Industry Expertise: Played a key role in high-tech chemical industry projects, sharing responsibility for seamless execution and critical debugging, ensuring clients' projects met the highest standards of excellence. • Marketing Mastery: Developed captivating marketing concepts and conducted extensive market research to identify new opportunities and drive revenue growth. • Sales Enablement: Designed dynamic presentations and meticulously updated sales databases, equipping the sales team with the tools and data necessary to thrive in a competitive market.