Fanis Rigas

Fanis Rigas is a multi-talented Startup Founder, successful at accelerating growth by building and leading successful sales & customer success teams. Visionary leader with excellent history of working together with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Customer Service and Finance to align all cross-functional efforts with Sales Activity and achieve high growth multiples. Sales Professional with more than 20 years of experience and a proven track record, Fanis knows how to help you hack your Sales Strategy, master your Sales Methodology and Engineer your Sales Processes to achieve maximum results.

Fanis started his career by founding and holding the role of Head of Growth of kariera.gr -the leading online job-board in Greece. He managed to grow the company from 0 to 4M in revenues in just 8 years. 

After the acquisition of kariera.gr by CareerBuilder in late 2008, he became the VP of Sales for CareerBuilder in Europe. Holding this position, he built and worked with various sales teams across 7 EU countries (Greece, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy & Romania). Over the 10 years he stayed with CareerBuilder, Fanis hired trained and lead to success more than 200 Sales Professionals which generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue for CareerBuilder in Europe.

In late 2018, Fanis left CareerBuilder to focus on his new endeavor, the launch of Accelerate Growth  -a boutique consulting firm helping startups double their revenues in 6-12 months. He has worked with dozens of startups -from early-stage to more mature ones- and is proud to report that his team has managed to deliver on its promise at 100% of the cases they worked for.

Accelerate Growth, helps start-up founders, business owners, sales leaders, and solo-preneurs get Sales Meetings with new, ideal customers. Accelerate Growth, custom-builds an automated sales pipeline with personalized messaging that targets qualified leads and delivers interested responses right to their customer inbox, allowing them to step in and close. They help eliminate the Sales Cycle Friction, and focus on what their customers do best: build meaningful relationships and close deals.

Fanis is the Lead instructor of the B2B Sales Adememy , and B2B Sales Masterclass for Deal Closing.