About

“Profit is not something to add at the end, it is something to plan for in the beginning.” – Leahanne Hobson, Founder & CEO

Alinea Partners is your GTM Advisor; specializing in portfolio management, channel development and business outcome content and training.

WHY YOU SHOULD WORK WITH US!

We work globally with high tech and telecommunications companies – and their channel partners - of all sizes.
We pioneered the Sales Journey Assessment and the Business Opportunity Assessment, giving us highly commercial Benchmark data on 1000s of companies globally.
We support our clients as they make major business transitions from product to software, software to services, identify IP and build Partner-to-Partner (P2P) growth plans.

Leahanne Hobson, Founder and CEO

With many years’ management and field experience in the high technology and telecommunications markets, Leahanne has directed business transformations, go-to-market strategies and new business development programs for global companies of all sizes. Since 2005, She founded and manage Alinea Partners Consulting, a European strategic marketing network. She creates sales, channel development and marketing programs and strategies; working with clients to find new buyers and improve existing customer experiences. Over the years, she has developed individual growth strategies and programs for her clients and has supported many companies recently as they make business model transformations and develop plans to make them more competitive.

Christian Hess, Senior Advisor

Christian, a sales and IT hybrid, has more than 20 years of experience in identifying and developing business transition opportunities, creating go-to-market strategies, developing solution portfolios, and supporting partnerships. He has held roles ranging from operational to C-level positions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Christian is very effective in helping businesses evaluate and improve sales strategies and IT solutions for business transitions and IT migrations.

Massimo Sangiovanni, Senior Advisor

Massimo, a former Vice President of Motorola Solutions, has worked in executive roles at the forefront of fast-moving industries across all the continents for more than 20 years. He has continuously succeeded in establishing world-class organizations, creating and executing business plans (strategy, brand, marketing, and sales) to position companies with purpose and grow the business while contributing to its evolution.

Balint Ladanyi, Senior Advisor

Strategically agile and technology-adept business leader with 25 years of experience in devising/executing robust strategies. He has held roles ranging from operational to C-level positions worldwide. In addition to working at Alinea Partners, he is the Founder and CEO of CIOBEE Consulting, with the mission of helping companies with digital business transformation, process optimisation, strategy and business development, business continuity, and quality and ISO and other Business and Technical Compliance requirements. Recognized for building, training, and guiding cross-functional international organizations for achieving assigned targets and delivering best-in-class services to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.

Charlène Renier, Sr. Advisor

Charlène, a business strategy consultant with 10+ years’ experience in multiple sectors and industries. She has worked and lived in Luxembourg, Italy and Belgium where she has learned a lot about executives’ communication, resilience, creativity, leadership and business management. She has held roles as VP of Innovation for VOO, a major Belgian telecom company, with the goal to create and develop a fully digital media aggregator for younger and digitally active consumers (VooSport, BeTV, Moustique, L’Avenir, etc.). Charlène is obsessed with efficiency, commitment, and reliability. She is also effective in providing great feedback and ideas to improve business management, communications, sales processes and strategies. She is also very concerned about the human aspect of the business. Believing that, be it for the final client, providers, suppliers, resellers or employees, any achievement or changes are made possible with strong employee and customer experiences (EX/CX).