Toronto · For the Enterprise AE seat

ShawnQanun

I've already co-sold with your team in this market. I'm not applying cold.

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FY26 Q2 at Snowflake
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FY26 Q1 at Snowflake
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FY25 first year, no ramp
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Average quarterly attainment across 36 months on quota
01 · Where this starts

I've already co-sold with Sigma reps in this market.

I've run joint deals in Canadian accounts where I brought the Snowflake side, a Sigma rep brought yours, and we split the room between us.

I know Michael Sunkin, Ryan and a few of your other reps from working accounts alongside them. We have been on the same calls in front of the same customers.

So I'm not applying cold and I'm not guessing at the motion. I know how your reps qualify and how fast they get to live data. I also know how they handle it when the honest answer to a requirement is no.

Whoever takes this seat from outside the ecosystem spends a first quarter learning what the Snowflake relationship actually feels like on the ground. I've been inside it for eighteen months.

02 · On working with your people

I have met your team and I want to work with them.

Michael, Ryan and the others gave my customer straight answers about what the product does and does not do. Nobody tried to talk anyone past a requirement Sigma was not going to meet. I came off those calls having learned something, which does not happen with every partner.

Partner co-sell falls apart when the two reps have different definitions of qualified, or when one side treats the other as a favour. I have worked motions where the partner rep started treating my account like territory to take. The customer picks up on it fast. Both companies lose that deal.

That never happened with your people. I liked the teammates I met and I liked how the team operates, and that is why Sigma is the only company in this category I have reached out to.

03 · The territory

Canada is under-covered. I know the patch as people.

Sigma has been Snowflake BI Partner of the Year four years running. The alignment is already paid for. Canada has not cashed it.

The Snowflake install base up here keeps growing and BI attach on top of it has not kept pace. There are Canadian enterprises pushing serious volume through the warehouse while their reporting still sits in a legacy tool that renews every year because nobody wants to own the migration. That is a displacement market sitting on an install base I already work in every day.

My map of this patch is people. The account teams split by segment, and I can tell you who covers the large financial institutions and who carries the growth book, plus how each of them gets measured. Some of those reps are under real consumption pressure, and they will make a warm introduction the same week you give them a reason, because a BI layer moves their consumption number.

The SEs matter more than the org chart suggests. A few of them get pulled into every architecture review, and whatever they put on that slide usually gets bought a couple of quarters later. Some of them will answer a Slack message in an hour. Others want a coffee and a specific ask. I already know how each of them works.

Owen Thompson runs Enterprise East for Snowflake Canada, and he used to be my manager. I know how he builds a team and how he wants his reps supported, and I know his reps well because I have worked next to them. Most partner reps spend a year building that kind of relationship. I already have it.

Co-sell in Canada runs on a rep believing you'll make them look good in front of their own customer. The portal and the partner forms come second. The belief gets built one deal at a time, and some of it is already built.

  1. Work the Canadian Snowflake account teams by segment and consumption pressure. The reps whose books carry the most stalled reporting spend are where the time goes, and I can start naming them in week one.
  2. Pick two or three joint accounts where the warehouse is live, the BI renewal is close, and the data team is fielding self-serve requests it cannot staff. Run those with a shared close plan and one shared definition of qualified.
  3. Get in front of the SE community early, because they decide what goes on the architecture slide long before procurement hears about any of it.
  4. Keep building net-new myself so partner sourced pipeline is upside on top. Pipeline generation is the part of this job I'm best at.
04 · The record

Quota since 2021. Here is all of it.

PeriodSeatResult
FY26 Q2Snowflake, Financial Services206%
FY26 Q1Snowflake, Financial Services150%
FY25First year, no ramp, new industry117%
2024 YTDMinerva AI, technical API product225%
2023 to 2024Float, enterprise segment opened cold8 accounts
2021 to 2022Float, monthly payment volume$17K to $6.4M
2020 to 2021Conexiom, enterprise pipeline built$4.25M to $6.25M
Happy to walk through any number on this page in detail.
05 · The work behind it

Every seat here maps to something this job needs.

Feb 2025 to present
Same buyers, same architecture conversation, one layer down the stack. This is the seat that put me in the room with Sigma.

Account Executive, Financial Services

Snowflake · Toronto
  • FY26 at 150% in Q1 and 206% in Q2. FY25 at 117% of a first year quota with no ramp and no prior industry experience.
  • Sole rep globally to win the Pipeline Gen Excellency Award in three of four consecutive quarters, and top 5 in total pipeline generation out of 60+ AEs.
  • Led the team in closing cold Tier 1 accounts. Net-new only: financial services, fintech, crypto and technology across Canada, in the 0 to 1,000 employee segment.
  • Technical depth in Cortex AI and ML and in OpenFlow for ETL. Daily conversations on RAG pipelines, AI agents, ML models and Text-to-SQL applications.
  • Chosen for peer coaching, mentorship and AE interview panels.
Mar 2024 to Feb 2025
Technical enterprise selling without an SE.

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Minerva AI
  • $9M+ in qualified pipeline and 225% of YTD attainment on a technical API product, without a full-time Solutions Engineer on a single deal.
  • Ran my own discovery, demos and technical objection handling into Fortune 500 accounts.
  • C-level relationships in AI risk and compliance, selling to regulated buyers with a real security review at the end of it.
  • Appointed interim head of sales: GTM strategy, pricing, business development and RevOps.
Mar 2023 to Mar 2024
Displacing an incumbent and repricing the contract, same as a BI rip and replace.

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Float
  • Opened the enterprise segment from nothing and closed Ada, 1Password, D2L and Neo Financial among others.
  • Zero to 8 enterprise accounts in 10 months, plus the company record for most closed mid-market accounts.
  • Converted the revenue model from monthly self-serve to upfront annual enterprise SaaS, taking average contract value up 20X.
  • Built opportunities carrying potential for an additional $300MM in annualized payment volume.
Mar 2022 to Mar 2023
Ran the pipeline engine while carrying my own number. Partner motions need both.

Senior Mid-Market AE and Enablement Partner

Float
  • Managed 7 BDRs while carrying a team number and my own. The BDR team hit an 80% conversion rate.
  • The playbook, onboarding and training program didn't exist, so I wrote them.
Feb 2021 to Mar 2022
Built a revenue function from zero. Canada has no coverage today.

Account Executive and Head of Sales, Founding Employee

Float
  • First employee, reporting to the CEO through pre-seed and Series A.
  • Two beta customers to 300+ customers, and $17K to $6.4M in monthly payment volume, inside six months of launch.
  • Recruited, hired and coached up to 20 reps across BDR, AE, CSM and support.
  • Supported raising $60M+ across Seed and Series A with Tiger Global and Golden Ventures.
  • Float today runs around $20M in revenue, close to $1B in annualized payment volume, and 3,000+ customers.
Apr 2020 to Feb 2021
Outbound at enterprise scale.

Senior Global Enterprise BDR Lead

Conexiom
  • Built a $4.25M ARR pipeline and grew it to $6.25M, prospecting into $1B+ revenue organizations through COVID.
  • Promoted to Senior in four months. Managed, trained and onboarded 15+ hires while staying ahead of my own quota.
  • Only sales executive chosen to source new opportunities in EMEA on top of an existing patch.
Jun 2019 to Mar 2020
Financial services fluency, earned in person and at volume.

Business Development Associate, then Representative

Fidelity Investments
  • 500+ advisor client relationships and 60 inbound calls a day. Promoted within five months.
  • 120+ in-person meetings across a quarter of the territory in two months, producing $15M in sales.
May 2018 to Apr 2019
First sales job. Learned to ask for the business.

Client Advisor

RBC
  • In-branch advice and solutions, exceeding sales quota week over week.
06 · How I work

I can hold the technical conversation on my own.

I built and shipped a real product on Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase and Stripe, with AI features running in production and 39 tables behind it. It matters because a Director of Data keeps talking to me after the first ten minutes, and I can run technical discovery when the SE is booked on something else.

On process I run MEDDPICC and SPICED with Challenger and Sandler underneath. Multithread early, get the business case in writing, build a champion who can defend the spend when I'm not in the room. I forecast honestly and I call my number down early when it is not going to land.

Technical

Data analysis. Snowflake Cortex AI and ML. OpenFlow and ETL. RAG pipelines, AI agents, Text-to-SQL. Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Stripe.

Tools

Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo.io, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Marketo, Zapier, STATA.

Education

HBA, Economics and Financial Management, minor in Political Science. Wilfrid Laurier University, 2019. Varsity men's rugby. Founder and president of The Stath Club.

Certifications

Enterprise Sales School with Ian Koniak, 2023. Coaching for High Performance, Role of a Leader, Leadership Execution Excellence, 2023. Advanced RevOps and Master Cold Emailing, 2022. RevOps and GTM School with Jacco van der Kooij, Frontline Sales Manager School with Kevin Dorsey, Mastering Storytelling with Ravi Rajani, 2021. All Revenue Collective. Canadian Securities Course, 2019.

Languages

English native. Farsi and Persian fluent. Dari fluent. French working.

07 · The ask

Let's take the Canadian patch.

I'll bring the Snowflake relationships on day one and the pipeline generation habit that produced them.

If you want to check any of this, ask your Canadian reps whether they've worked a deal with me. I would rather you hear it from them.

Shawn Qanun