Sales meetup in San Diego!! 🤩
📍 Location: 550 West B Street 4th Floor, San Diego, CA, 92101
📆 Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
As long time users of Apollo’s products and active members in their customer community, we’re so excited to partner with them for our next event!
** Insightful Panel Discussion
** Raffling useful gadgets and fun sales themed prizes!
** As a bonus! First 25 attendees get a special gift 🎁
About #SalesFriends:
San Diego sales community. Giving customer facing roles a shared space to meet in person and grow together. Most of us work in tech but we welcome other industries as well.
VPs of Sales, AEs, SDRs, CSMs, SEs and any other client facing acronym. An opportunity to share best practices and help each other get ahead in our careers. We don’t like to exclude anyone… but no real estate agents allowed! We’re here to network not get pitched to buy a house.
Free drinks, snacks, and quality conversation.
Event Agenda:
5:00 PM: Doors Open, Check-in, Get a Name Tag
5:30 – 6:15 PM: Panel Discussion + Q&A
6:15 – 7 PM: Open Networking, Fun Sales Stories, and a Quick Group Photo
7:00 PM: Event Closeout
Panel Discussion: Comparing SaaS & Non-SaaS Sales
Selling software isn’t the same as selling lab equipment or financial services. We’ll discuss the differences between selling such different types of products and answering your questions to help give insights you can take back to your sales teams.
Moderator: Ricky Houck, Founder @ SalesFriends | AE @ Arthur
Panelists:
Erin Holtz, Account Executive @ RxVantage
Account Executive specializing in selling SaaS solutions to non-technical audiences. Passionate about bridging the gap between technology and business outcomes.
Kenneth Bernabe, Global Remarketing Manager @ The Macquarie Group
Works on the sell side for global investment bank, managing Semiconductor CapEx Remarketing and asset strategy. He has a background in industrial manufacturing sales, driving high revenue OEM spec in an MRO B2B and B2G sales across aerospace, medical device, construction and broader manufacturing markets domestically and in the Asia-Pacific.
Daniel Wege, Business Development as a Service @ VWR part of Avantor
Started in vertical content creation for a toy company, flipping bmws, owning a sock shop, chocolate factory accounting, research scientist, and now B2B sales.
Our Partners:
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