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Ash Lane

Ash Lane

VP Revenue Operations

Professional Summary

Revenue operations executive with founder-level systems thinking across SaaS, IoT, and subscription businesses. I design the architecture, processes, and analytics that keep sales, marketing, CS, and product working from the same truth. From territory design and forecasting to data warehousing and automation, I ensure revenue engines scale efficiently while staying tightly aligned with customer outcomes.

Core Skills

Architecture & Data

  • Systems design across CRM, CPQ, marketing automation, product telemetry
  • Data warehousing, dbt/ETL, governance, and single-source-of-truth dashboards
  • Event schemas linking product usage to revenue and lifecycle workflows

Process & Enablement

  • Territory design, quota setting, comp plans, sales stage definitions
  • Playbooks, enablement assets, and ongoing certification programs
  • Deal desk partnership, SLA management, and cross-functional cadence

Analytics & Forecasting

  • Pipeline health, capacity modelling, renewal/churn forecasting
  • Executive dashboards, board reporting, scenario planning
  • Instrumentation for cohort analysis, channel ROI, and margin

Automation & Lifecycle

  • Revenue automation workflows (routing, approvals, renewal triggers)
  • Marketing/sales alignment on MQL → SQL → opportunity definitions
  • Collaboration with product/growth to tie operations to usage outcomes

Director-Level Scope

  • Director-level ownership across product roadmap, delivery governance, stakeholder communication, vendor selection, budget trade-offs, and cross-functional operating cadence.
  • Experience leading product, engineering, operations, GTM, implementation, and partner teams through 0-to-1 launches, regional expansion, and platform scaling.
  • Translate founder, board, and executive priorities into OKRs, portfolio plans, hiring needs, delivery metrics, risk management, and customer-facing execution.

Professional Experience

Founder & CEO – VP Revenue Operations

Topolo Technology Inc

Mar 2022 – Present Global / Remote

Built the revenue operations foundation for a platform portfolio, connecting CRM, lifecycle automation, product usage, billing, forecasting, support, and retention.

  • Implemented CRM architecture, lifecycle automation, partner tracking, data flows, and analytics linking product telemetry to pipeline and customer outcomes.
  • Designed revenue workflows across self-serve onboarding, partner-led opportunities, API access, platform packaging, billing, approvals, renewals, and expansion motions.
  • Built executive dashboards covering pipeline health, activation, conversion, usage, retention, support load, LTV/CAC, and forecast quality.
  • Automated deal desk, onboarding, approval, renewal, and customer-success workflows to reduce cycle time and churn risk.

Founder & Owner – Revenue Operations Lead

Fresh Ventures (Livefreshr)

Mar 2014 – Present Dubai, UAE

Owned RevOps for Livefreshr’s subscription business, connecting acquisition, fulfilment, and retention data into unified reporting.

  • Implemented CRM, billing, and subscription analytics with automated reporting on CAC, payback, and retention.
  • Created demand routing, SLA tracking, and lifecycle workflows between marketing, sales, kitchen ops, and CX teams.
  • Built forecasting models tied to operational capacity and procurement planning.
  • Developed dashboards for cohort analysis, average order value, and gross margin, informing pricing decisions.

TPP Partnerships Manager / Mid-Market Sales Manager

Cvent

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 Dubai, UAE

Helped establish and grow Cvent's Middle East presence, selling event tech and hospitality cloud solutions into agencies, corporates, and venues.

  • Joined the Dubai office in its early phases, supporting growth from a small startup-style footprint into a larger regional operation.
  • Progressed from mid-market territory management to owning the entire Middle East for third-party planners, with clear quota responsibility.
  • Partnered with SDRs to build pipeline, ran discovery-driven demos, managed complex sales cycles, and negotiated contracts with multi-stakeholder buying groups.
  • Adapted quickly to hybrid then fully remote selling during COVID-19 while maintaining disciplined forecasting and CRM hygiene.

Solution Consultant / Project Manager & Account Manager

XpertLearning

Apr 2012 – Sep 2016 UAE

Combined new business, account management, and solution consulting for learning and talent platforms across the GCC.

  • Served as the first Cornerstone OnDemand certified solution consultant in the GCC, leading RFPs, demos, and implementations.
  • Managed a hybrid role across business development, sales cycle management, client engagement, and technology-enhanced learning consultation.
  • Supported marketing through website redesign, campaign input, and the advertiser-funded L&D magazine XpertInsight.

Technical Skills

Systems

Salesforce, HubSpot, CPQ, Outreach, Gong, Customer.io, Braze, Chargebee, Stripe Billing, Zapier/Workato.

Data & Automation

Snowflake/BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran, Looker, Metabase, SQL, Python, workflow automation, reverse ETL.

Planning & Analytics

Forecasting models, board packs, scenario planning, KPI dashboards, cohort/retention analytics, revenue attribution.

SaaS Tools & Platforms

CRM, GTM & Lifecycle

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Mailchimp, Braze, Customer.io, WhatsApp Business API, Stripe, Google Ads, and Meta Ads.

Product, Analytics & Support

Jira, Linear, Notion, Confluence, Figma, Airtable, GA4, Looker Studio, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Hotjar, Intercom, and Zendesk.

Delivery, Cloud & AI

Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, AWS, Google Cloud/Firebase, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, VPS/cPanel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sentry, Datadog, OpenAI API, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, MCP, RAG, vector search, prompt/eval workflows, and agent tooling.

Selected Projects

  • Topolo platform: Edge-native business software ecosystem spanning identity/OIDC, developer onboarding, CRM, roadmapping, billing/payments, AI gateway, notifications, admin tooling, commerce, workflow automation, media operations, and customer support.
  • Platform infrastructure: Cloudflare Workers architecture with generated deployment manifests, staging/production targets, service-to-service auth, scoped JWT/JWKS authorization, CI/CD, D1/KV/R2/Vectorize/Queues/Durable Objects, and deployment orchestration tooling.
  • JustCook SaaS and JustFeed: Food-tech operations and mobile subscription platform covering ordering, inventory, recipes, procurement, routing, payments, lifecycle messaging, and reporting.