Alexander has been working with various CPQ Vendors over the last 5 years. He just moved from Finland to Denmark to support Fluido’s growth in Central Europe.  In this Interview he shares what he considers most helpful to learn about CPQ, he talks about the growth of the CPQ practice, what he expects from their expansion into the german speaking region, what he values at Fluido, the Infosys acquisition and much more  

-LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/afranck/ 

-Website https://www.fluidogrou

We are taking some time off to relax and to find new and interesting guests for the CPQ Podcast. Our next episode will be around August 18 or maybe a little earlier. In the meantime check our 99 available interviews and look out for our CPQ System Integrator Research Study 2019 on the CPQ Circle Community. We wish everyone a great summer!

Andrew has 25+ years of experience working with Fortune 500 clients and has lectured at the University of Chicago, UCLA, and the Charles University in Prague. In this interview he talks about the strategic importance of CPQ, why “ERP thinking” should stop, MGI’s unique Total Addressable Market (TAM) model for CPQ, the Monetize conferences, and much more.

- Email him @ [email protected]

- Website: www.mgiresearch.com

Alexander “Lex” Leonard is a CPQ Recruitment Consultant based in the UK. He helps mostly System Integrators and CPQ Vendors to find experienced CPQ resources in North America and Europe. In this interview he talks about the CPQ Market, for what positions he sees the highest demand, the differences between North America and Europe, about the CPQ talent shortage, he also provides some tips for job searchers and much more

email him @ [email protected]

Website: www.elsdonconsulting.co

Matthew has 18 years of Professional Services experience and was with firms like Apttus, Deloitte and others before he joined Mainspring in 2019. In this interview he talks about his CPQ experience, what CPQ Services Mainspring offers, their Partnerships with Apttus, Blueprint CPQ and Atlatl Software, as well as what he expects to be a CPQ Game changer in 2019/2020 and much more  

Cell 843-670-6258 or email him @ [email protected] or visit their  

New Website: https://www.mainspringcg.co

This is the first interview with an eCommerce Solution Provider that integrates CPQ and their eCommerce platform. Doug talks about which vendors they currently work with on CPQ-eCommerce integrations, what customers should consider when doing this type of integration, the biggest challenges of an eCommerce/CPQ project, benefits of the cleverbridge merchant of record selling model and much more.

- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougcaviness/

- Website: https://www.cleverbridge.com

Max Rudman is the founder of Steelbrick. After Salesforce acquired his company in 2015 he stayed on for the last three years before he joined Prodly earlier this year. In this interview he talks about how he started working with CPQ, how he grew Steelbrick to 100+ customers, how Godard Abel changed his opinion of VC’s, where he expects the CPQ Market to go, his vision for Prodly and much more

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxrudman/

email [email protected]

Events https://www.prodly.co/even

Johann Dornbach is responsible for developing and integrating SAP S/4HANA for advanced variant configuration with Commerce and CPQ in SAP C/4HANA. In this interview he shares what his team does, what CPQ developments they focus on, who he considers a thought leader in CPQ, what SAP means by the “Digital Configuration Lifecycle” and "one configuration model", and much more.

- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndornbach/

- Meet him in June @ https://konferenz-variantenfertiger.de

Tom Connard has 20+ years of experience working with Visualization Software and co-founded 3D Source in 2016. 3D Source builds photo-realistic images that can be integrated into CPQ and Product Configuration tools. In this interview he shares what he did before he co-founded 3D Source, how 3D Source is organized, what they do and whom they can help, why he believes in High End Visualization and much more.

-Email [email protected]

-Website 3dsource.com

-Meet him @ Neocon in Chicago, IL in June 10-12

Klaas Nebuhr ist einer der Gründer und Geschäftsführer der encoway GmbH, eine Lenze Tochter, die 2000 in Bremen gegründet wurde. In diesem Interview erzählt Klaas warum und wie encoway Kinder und Jugendliche im Bereich MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik) fördert. Ein inspirierendes Gespräch das hoffentlich viel Interesse und Nachahmer in D-A-CH findet.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaas-nebuhr-159a1829/

- website: https://www.encoway.de