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Dave von Dadelszen

Bio

I am a Senior Solutions Engineer at Deel and the founder of Present, where I am building solutions to support the global hybrid and remote workforce. Throughout my career in operations and revenue strategy, I have specialized in scaling business models, optimizing complex operational processes, and driving product-market fit for high-growth companies. I am known for translating intricate operational challenges into streamlined, revenue-generating systems.

Work Experience

Senior Solutions Engineer at Deel

Jul 2025 – Present

Senior Business Operations Manager at Deel

Sep 2024 – Jul 2025

Repackaged marquee hardware subscription product, critical to hitting H1 revenue target of $60M ARR through brought-forward, committed revenue spend across segments & increased attachment rate of adjacent IT services, paritcularly in the SMB segment. Ideated and built additional functionality set enabling the automation of hardware lifecycle events, selling feature to the largest in-pipeline opportunties, creating functionality moat vs competitors and unlocking product-market-price fit in the mid-market & enterprise segments.

Inventor at Present

Jun 2025 – Present

Making housing work for the world's hybrid & remote workforce. Learn more at presentdesks.com

Senior Business Operations Manager at Hofy

Mar 2024 – Sep 2024

Embedded within revenue function after doubling win rate (SQL -> closed won) in last strategic project in prior role. Ideated & drove to decision move Hofy's device lifecycle management proposition to a single price per device from a near-infinite number of price points & near impossible to buy. Ran the largest deal in the company's history ($2.4M) concurrently creating necessary product and operational changes internally to put us in the position to win it, collaborating with product & pricing to strategic redesign of revenue mechanics and future of business. Defined complexity of Hofy's global operations into simple lookup tool and mobilised this into Hofy's revenue org, used to provide customers a real-time view into operational performance & capabilities globally, now maintained by data & operational teams.

Business Operations Manager at Hofy

Dec 2021 – Apr 2024

Led project seeking to improve success of sales motion, increasing SQL -> customer conversion rate by > 70% from 13% -> 23% with zero impact to margin profile of new business, by helping AEs understand, communicate & have the tools to demonstrate the value of the company's services Implemented Airtable bridging gap between on-platform & off-platform processes, leading to improved operational outcomes, queryable/reportable datasets, the ability for the business to move into new services more quickly, and for these services to be consumed by product/eng into the product both more quickly & robustly Conceptualized and implemented Global Operating Model enabling company to understand its own operational capabilities across a disparate set of services, offered at different service levels with different delivery mechanisms in 120+ countries clearly - both internally but also critically externally to prospective & existing customers

Director at Purposeful

Apr 2020 – Dec 2021

Secured £100K grant from Innovate UK to build MVP - leading & managing project to successful delivery on time & on budget Created financial forecasts & commercial plan resulting in an additional £100K in angel funding & signed distribution agreement with niche channel partner Led internal impact initiatives for distributed workforce including annual bonus for staff whose home is supplied by renewable energy

Chief Operations Officer at Torca

Aug 2018 – Apr 2020

Senior executive with board-level oversight of Human Resources, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Facilities; Chair of Due Diligence Committee & member of Information Security & Governance Committee Re-focussed revenue model away from high value, low-frequency events to moderate value repeatable monthly ARR subscriptions Leader of strategic projects including obtaining custodial permissions, and successful entry into the prestigious FCA Sandbox Cohort 5 A working member of numerous industry leadership groups

Director Of Operations at UK Bond Network

Sep 2015 – Aug 2018

Oversaw and managed delivery of technology, operations, legal and compliance with board-level responsibility of online bond marketplace with over £10m of issued products 6 months as interim CF10 and CF11 Represented the company at global industry events

Head Of Operations at UK Bond Network

Nov 2013 – Sep 2015

Digitalised end-to-end operating processes of business to create internal efficiencies, translating into improved user experience and lower staff overheads for business Conceptualised and led production of a unique secondary market software for bonds creating a two-sided market

Head of Operations - Cornhill Natural Resources Fund at Cornhill Capital

Dec 2011 – Nov 2013

Produced RFI and RFQ resulting in winning mandate to run $65m fund Implemented software and processes providing pre & post transaction compliance, order execution & management, and live P&L reporting Responsible for the operational management of $100m in total assets

Assistant Portfolio Manager at Cornhill Capital

Sep 2010 – Dec 2011

Responsible for the running of the department middle office function and trade execution with market makers on the London Stock Exchange Produced presentations and investor updates for investors

Trainee Investment Broker at Cornhill Capital

Apr 2010 – Sep 2010

Gained brokerage qualifications

Client Service Representative at Data Explorers

Sep 2009 – Apr 2010

Liaised with and supported front office staff at Tier 1 global financial services firms Contributed to development of new and existing products & solutions as valued member of client facing staff Within first 3 months sent to New York to train new starters in NYC office due to deep understanding of the company’s products

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at University of Liverpool

2006 – 2009

Grade: 2:1