Open to Enterprise AE roles

Relationships compound. So do quotas.

I'm Levell, an Enterprise Account Executive with 15+ years selling for the companies that quietly run American business: Cisco, Toshiba, Cintas, NWN Carousel, and today, Blackbaud. I lead with curiosity, win with consultative depth, and build pipelines that don't go stale on Friday.

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Levell Exum, Enterprise Account Executive
Raleigh-Durham, NC Remote-first · Open to relocation
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Years in B2B sales
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Enterprise sales orgs
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Fortune 500 alumni
Cold calls placed
About

The student of the game.

Throughout my career as a sales professional, I've focused on developing meaningful relationships and being a student of learning. I'm a team player with a magnetic personality, used to readily motivate peers and colleagues to perform to the best of their abilities.

I've worked alongside talented individuals across Fortune 500 companies including Toshiba and Cintas, as well as offices throughout the NC Triangle. My areas of expertise are B2B sales, prospecting, lead generation, new business development, and relationship building, with a concentration on the mid-market space.

Always looking to grow my personal and professional network. Connect via LinkedIn or reach out directly.

Consultative depth

Discovery first. Pitch second. Close because the customer asks you to.

Multi-thread by default

Champions, economic buyers, and the quiet skeptic. Map the room before you map the deal.

Pipeline hygiene

Forecasts I'd defend on a Friday afternoon. No hopium, no commit-and-pray.

Experience

Fifteen years. Six sales orgs. One playbook.

Click any role to expand the story. I move when the work stops teaching me something new.

Enterprise Account Executive
Blackbaud · Full-time
Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Remote

Selling Blackbaud's purpose-built software to enterprise nonprofits, foundations, and education institutions, organizations whose missions can't slow down for software friction. The brief: bring modern fundraising, financial, and grant management workflows into orgs that have been making do with patchwork stacks for a decade.

Blackbaud customers operate with two unusual pressures most B2B vendors don't know how to navigate: constrained budgets and very high accountability to donors, boards, and beneficiaries. That makes mission alignment, ROI clarity, and implementation discipline non-negotiable in every deal cycle.

Enterprise SaaS Mission-driven sales Multi-stakeholder deals
Territory Account Executive
NWN Carousel · Full-time
May 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Raleigh, NC · Hybrid

NWN Carousel is an award-winning integrated Cloud Communications Service Provider (CCSP) focused on transforming the hybrid workspace experience. I was responsible for bringing secure, scalable cloud communications infrastructure, software, and services to organizations modernizing their hybrid work environments.

Trusted by over 7,000 organizations, including state and local government (SLED) and industry-leading commercial enterprises, NWN delivers unified communications, security, devices, contact center, visual collaboration, and connectivity, all powered by the company's Experience Management Platform (EMP).

UCaaS / CCaaS SLED Managed services
Mid-Market Account Manager
Cisco · Full-time
Oct 2015 – Feb 2023 · 7 yrs 5 mos

Drove network infrastructure hardware and software sales across Cisco's full portfolio: switching, routing, security, data center, and collaboration tools. Uncovered new opportunities through joint prospecting with partners and marketing campaigns, leveraged technical resources to advance complex deals, and closed business to retire quota year after year.

Seven years in a Cisco mid-market seat is its own MBA. You learn how to move a deal through procurement gauntlets, how to choose between channel-led vs. direct, and how to translate engineering specs into business outcomes a CFO will sign off on.

Consultative Selling Contract Negotiation Channel partners Quota retirement
Client Relationship Manager
Ernest Packaging Solutions
May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Morrisville, NC · On-site

Provided total packaging solutions for clients: custom package design, corrugated products, packaging equipment, janitorial and facilities maintenance products. Developed new business across the Triangle through cold calling, prospecting, and networking, surfacing meaningful savings on packaging spend while upgrading clients to better options.

Consultative Selling Contract Negotiation Cost analysis
Outside Sales Representative
Cintas
May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Durham, NC

Cultivated new business through cold calling, networking, and prospecting. Facilitated new business sales for facility and image apparel services across the Triangle area. Used consultative sales strategies to develop programs tailored to individual client needs.

Contract Negotiation Analytical Skills Cold prospecting
Account Executive
Toshiba Business Solutions
Feb 2011 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Raleigh-Durham, NC

Developed new business through aggressive cold calling and prospecting in Raleigh and surrounding areas. Maintained client relationships through outstanding account management, follow-ups, and updated technology solutions. Used a consultative sales approach to meet individual client needs.

Consultative Selling Contract Negotiation Account management
Point of view

What I think about AI, sales, and the next decade.

AI didn't kill the seller. It killed the average seller. The buyers I work with don't need another vendor pitching features. They need a partner who has seen this movie before, in a different industry, and can tell them how it ends.

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Generic outreach is a dying art. Pattern recognition is the new moat.

AI gives every buyer infinite vendor options and every seller infinite outbound volume. The result: inboxes are louder, trust is scarcer, and the differentiator isn't "personalization at scale." It's depth at scale. Sellers who can pattern-match across industries, anticipate the next objection three meetings out, and tell a buyer something they didn't already know. Those are the ones who'll keep their calendars full.

On modern selling
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Mid-market is where AI actually gets implemented.

Enterprise has the budget and committees to spend two years piloting. SMB picks ChatGPT and moves on. Mid-market is where the messy, real work happens: bridging legacy ops to modern AI workflows without a McKinsey engagement or a 10-person AI team. After 7+ years in Cisco's mid-market motion, I've seen this pattern in every wave: cloud, security, collaboration. AI is the next one, and it's the biggest yet.

On the buyer
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The technology stack changes. The buyer's anxieties don't.

Selling networking at Cisco, hybrid comms at NWN, and mission-critical SaaS at Blackbaud taught me one durable truth: every buyer is privately worried about the same three things: budget defensibility, integration risk, and whether their team will actually adopt the thing. AI buyers are running through this same cycle right now, just compressed into weeks instead of quarters. The frameworks transfer. The empathy transfers more.

On cross-industry selling
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Mission-driven orgs are the canary in the AI coal mine.

Nonprofits, education, and healthcare operate with constrained budgets and unusually high accountability to donors, boards, regulators, and the people they serve. They can't afford performative AI. When they adopt, they adopt for measured ROI and durable workflow change. That makes them a leading indicator of what efficiency-driven AI adoption will look like across every industry by 2027. I'm watching this up close at Blackbaud. It's the most useful seat I could ask for.

On industry signal
Expertise

What I bring on day one.

Sales motion

  • Enterprise & mid-market
  • Consultative selling
  • New business development
  • Multi-stakeholder deals
  • Channel & partner co-sell

Pipeline craft

  • Outbound prospecting
  • Lead generation systems
  • Forecasting & pipeline hygiene
  • Discovery & qualification
  • Contract negotiation

Verticals shipped

  • Networking & infrastructure
  • Cloud communications (UCaaS)
  • Nonprofit & education SaaS
  • Office & managed print
  • Industrial / packaging
Education

Trained as an accountant. Built as a seller.

Hampton University
Bachelor of Science · Accounting
Activities: National Association of Black Accountants · North Carolina Pre-Alumni Association
North Carolina State University
Master's · Accounting
Activities: National Association of Black Accountants
Let's talk

Hiring an enterprise seller who'll learn your business?

I'm always looking to grow my professional network, and I'm selectively considering roles where the product is real, the customer is mission-aligned, and the leadership team treats sales as a craft. Reach out. I read every note.