Ep.19- From Sales Engineer to VP: How to Builds Teams People Actually Want to Come Back To w/ Tamir Verthim
Pre-Sales Unplugged: Leadership Playbook · 2026-05-18 · 47 min
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Give us Feedback on this episode Most leaders lose their best people and never get them back. The ones who do? They built something different: a culture where people don't just work for you, they want to work with you again. This week I'm sitting down with someone I've genuinely loved working with as a client, not just because he gets results, but because he's the kind of leader that makes people want to come back. Meet Tamir Verthim, VP of Customer Experience at Apono, the cloud access management platform helping companies like Intel, HPE, and Monday.com move fast without compromising security. Tamir's career has taken him from Sales Engineering at HP all the way to leading CX at a company that is disrupting the cloud access management space. And along the way, he's built something most leaders never learn how to crack: a reputation so strong that the people he's led keep finding their way back to work with him again. We're going deep on: → What it actually takes to build a team people want to return to → Leadership that drives results without killing culture → How great CX and great SE leadership overlap more than you think → What Apono is solving in the cloud security space..
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