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Nazma started as Cognism’s first employee and sole salesperson. What she has accomplished over the last two years is downright impressive. Managing the entire sales process herself, Nazma is credited with overseeing a 600% revenue growth in 2018 year-to-date. And in just 18 months she has built out a client base consisting of over 200 companies. Aside from sheer determination, Nazma employs her own unique proven strategies around sales team building and execution.Cognism provides a full suite of tools to accelerate the marketing and sales function. The Company helps to enrich CRM records and stream leads into the funnel using artificial intelligence. It also offers organizations a GDPR compliant means to prospect leads and enrich data. Nazma was included in the Top 5 UK SaaS Sales Leaders by Sales Confidence. She contributes to the SaaS community, participating in a number of mentoring programs and regularly gives of her time and knowledge through public speaking engagements and industry publications.
Nazma is capable of delivering an outstanding performance in each and every situation. She is one of the most intelligent women I have ever worked with and her motivation and optimism, and will to achieve is inspiring. You cannot feel bad around her, because Nazma has such a good energy, that makes you want to be the best version of yourself too. She cares about each individual in the office, even though we are growing incredibly fast. Nazma created a culture that is a family and not a work environment, which makes it absolutely fantastic to work with her and for Cognism. To keep this culture she started 3 years ago, is absolutely impressive. Nazma is a mentor, a leader and the most inspiring woman I have ever known! SHE is the TOP WOMAN in SaaS!!
Nazma has demonstrated an unparalleled ability to grow, learn and lead and also to foster these amongst her team. She invests a huge amount of time in those around her and maintains a company culture that encourages embracing individual personalities and leveraging each strengths to create a unit that is significantly stronger than the combined individual elements. By leveraging these tactics she has taken a group of university graduates and – in a period of less than 3 years – driven Cognism to become one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, recently achieve #21 on the Linked In Hottest Startups in the UK list.
Nazma is the most motivating individual I have ever worked with. Her ability to bring the best our of the team is admirable. She is so well respected that the team would do anything to perform well and make sure we are bringing in the revenues she deserves to see. Second to this, she treats everyone equal and as her friend. Thats because we are all friends as a result of the environment she’s instilled at Cognsim.
Nazma has an incredible ability to bond with her team and bring them together in times of success and in times of need. We have gone from strength to strength with her leading our sales team, having won top 5 saas companies to work for in the uk by sales confidence, and most recently the top 25 hottest uk startups list by LinkedIn.
Nazma has a fearless ‘can-do’ attitude, always finding solutions to issues across every department within the company. She understands clearly the need for every single employee to be listened to, and that every department is given equal support to ensure synergy in the company.
Extremely talented individual who goes out of her way to help anyone in need, be it professionally or otherwise. Impressive ability to manage situations and turn them into opportunities, even if prior to her involvement they were looking bleak.
Provides excellent team and personal training – helping you both mentally and physically. She motivates and inspires the whole sales team every day, boosting our productivity, success and company growth. She brings out the best in us.
– The ability to raise the team’s morale -A true leader who has the respect of her whole team -Her generosity knows no bounds – this extends to her providing her knowledge in order to help her colleagues better themselves
Always positive no matter when times are tough. Exceptional leadership skills Intelligent Compassionate Reasonable Responsive Inspiring
Extremely energetic leader who is able to balance fantastically her focus between business needs and people needs. A great coach and mentor.
Welcoming Motivated Inspirational Dedicated Fun Enthusiastic Makes everyone feel like one unit/family Exceptional
Great leader, who is always willing to help others. Amazing time and team management and problem solving skills.
Management – second to none. The way that she deals with people is wonderful, catering to everyone’s needs.
A true leader, who puts inspires her team to achieve incredible results and leads from the front.
– True team motivator – In 4 short years has gone from SDR to CRO – Work hard play hard –
Binds teams across the company together and built sales system from scratch
The perfect balance between caring and no-bullshit approach
Building and scaling sales teams from near 0 revenue.
Her drive and focus is something you get inspired by.
Trustworthy, reliable, motivated, friendly, caring
Charisma, drive, ability to motivate others
Empathy – Drive – Determination
Extremely motivated, best leader
A fantastic woman in all areas.
Resilience/Optimism