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GRC & compliance · regulated fintech · Interim Head of Sales

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The commercial function for a GRC and compliance platform, built from scratch, serving regulated fintechs, banks and CASPs across DACH, Benelux and CEE. The most recent run, and the template for this practice.

SectorGRC / compliance SaaS
BuyersRegulated fintechs · banks · CASPs
MarketsDACH · Benelux · CEE
Stage~6M Series A
The problem

A strong compliance platform at Series A, selling into one of the most scrutinous buyer sets there is, regulated financial institutions. What was missing was the commercial function itself: a repeatable engine, a forecastable pipeline, and a GTM that could speak the language of DORA, MiCA and NIS2 with credibility.

What I did
  • Built the commercial function from scratch, process, pipeline, forecast
  • Rolled out MEDDPICC as the qualification framework across every deal
  • Stood up the HubSpot pipeline with deal-stage criteria that hold
  • Built a partner channel through German law firms (the Kanzlei referral model)
  • Carried event presence from Frankfurt to Berlin

In compliance and regulated fintech, the GTM has to speak the regulation. That's not a translation layer you add later, it's the engine.

Gijs Bos, on building for regulated buyers
What they kept

A commercial engine the company owns, pipeline, qualification, channel.

MEDDPICC embedded, a HubSpot pipeline that forecasts, and a partner channel that keeps producing. The regulated-market expertise, DORA, MiCA, NIS2, ISO 27001, is built into how the product is sold, not bolted on.

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Selling into regulated buyers? This is exactly the build.

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