30 years recruiting, selling, building and leading organizations in the Technology and Services sectors including founding five (5) for-profit companies and one (1) 501(c)3 non-profit. Colum has experience raising capital and has had three (3) successful exits to both private equity and strategic including the sale of his company Bridge Energy Group to Accenture. Prior to founding CoachEm, Colum was CRO of Sandler, managing global sales and delivery where the team achieved a 215% y/y growth rate prior to selling Sandler to Blue Marlin Group.