Toby Wood

Toby Wood

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Technical Director at Darktrace

  • Education

    • Canford School

      2008 - 2010
      High School Physics, Maths, Chemistry A, A, B

      Activities and Societies: Kayaking, Hockey

    • Ditcham park school

      1996 - 2008
      High School 11 GCSE's including Maths and English all A* to B
    • University of Southampton

      2011 - 2015
      Master's Degree ENGINEERING 2.1

      Activities and Societies: Ice Hockey, Squash. Specialised in Marine engineering In my 3rd year of engineering I received an award from my concept design work. This module involved creative thinking, communication and team work, and achieved the best mark in the year.

  • Experience

    • Big White Ski Resort Ltd

      Dec 2010 - Apr 2011
      Ski Instructor
    • Saipem

      Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
      Engineering intern
    • Darktrace

      Feb 2016 - now

      Technical Director of EMEA, managing a high performing team of 150 sales engineers and technical account managers. Responsible for both pre sales and post sales delivery.Some key results, achievements and responsibilities:Driven a customer base increase of 680% over the last 6 years, with the team now managing:- 4000 customers, across EMEA- Pre sales generating >$100m ACV- Renewals of >$170m ACV- I have been award an invite to Darktrace 25 (presidents club) for high performance, every year I have been at Darktrace- Managing cross functional teams, spread across EMEA, with a mix of on site and remote- Creating, tracking and defining KPIs to drive performance - goals, metrics, bonus plans, commission plans - Building and refining sales playbooks and processes- Rolling out product releases - Darktrace/Email, Darktrace/ASM, Darktrace/Cloud- Technical enablement - Team progression - designing and rolling out career paths, review processes, recognition processes, goal setting, bench marking- Product and field feedback- Internal system management - ground up system design, escalation processes- Recruitment - built hiring process, interview and hired over a hundred high quality engineers across EMEA region- Spoken at many external and internal events - Managed the team through covid- Dealt with delivering security software through global security events such as log4j and Solarwinds - Driven large scale organisational changes, such segmenting the GTM teams into tiers, and shifting to value based selling Show less

      • Senior Technical Director, Solutions Engineers, EMEA

        May 2022 - now
      • Technical Director, EMEA

        Jan 2021 - May 2022
      • Cyber Technologist Director

        Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
      • Senior Cyber Technologist

        Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
      • Cyber Security Technical Account Manager

        Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • CASI Level 2 Ski instructor

      CASI
    • Driving Lisence

      Jun 2010