The 6th annual Phenom Award is closed!
Our 2024 Phenom winner is Justin Primm!
Join the ranks of former winners like Justin Primm
and enjoy a dream holiday with the $2500 paid vacation!
Read more about this year’s winner and other finalists below.
2024 Phenom Award Finalists
We announced three outstanding Finalists for the 2024 Phenom Award. These three excellent sales professionals will have their accomplishments judged by our former Alumni of the Year and Phenom Award winners and earned votes in our People’s Choice poll in an effort to determine the eventual winner.
All three put up amazing accomplishments in a very short time since leaving memoryBlue! Take a look at their bios and Finalist applications below:
Justin Primm
Business Development Associate
Kastle Systems
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2024
Office: HQ
Matthew Logan
Business Development Manager
SANS Institute
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2023
Office: Denver
Zack Wolfenson
Business Development Representative
Kudelski Security
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2024
Office: Denver
What is the Phenom Award?
Getting off to a fast start is nothing new to memoryBlue employees. We continuously hire future sales stars who aren’t interested in waiting around for success – they go out and make it happen now!
As these pros elevate their careers and ascend into our alumni ranks, the relentless drive to succeed only increases. Even better, most of these dedicated pros make a major difference in their new roles right away.
How It Works
- For the 2024 program, only memoryBlue alumni in good standing who departed the firm on or after 7/1/2022 were eligible to apply.
- The winner, Craig Allen, now receives a $2,500 paid vacation, an appearance on our Tech Sales is for Hustlers podcast, and a place of permanent honor within the memoryBlue halls.
- This competition is always settled by votes from a combination of former Alumni of the Year and Phenom winners, as well as an open People’s Choice poll.
Racing Ahead
While the overall Alumni of the Year competition annually recognizes the alum who puts together an unmatched year in professional sales, the Phenom Award honors the individual who is off to the hottest career start.
History is filled with the names of professional athletes who took their respective sports by storm early on. Future NFL Hall of Fame players like Marcus Allen and Barry Sanders, MLB greats like Cal Ripken Jr. and Derek Jeter, or NBA legends such as Michael Jordan and Larry Bird each jumped out to sensational career starts and never looked back.
The memoryBlue Phenom Award is our nod to the recent former elephants who are thundering to the head of the pack quickly!
Phenom Award History
2023 Phenom Winner – Craig Allen
Craig Allen
Enterprise Customer Success Manager
Darktrace
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2021
Office: HQ
Catherine Seaman
Sales Manager, Eastern Region
Infinite Blue
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2021
Office: HQ
Caroline Sullivan
Mid-Market Account Executive
Rubrik
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2020
Office: HQ
Kellen Robideau
Account Executive
QTS Data Centers
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2020
Office: HQ
2019 Phenom Winner (Inaugural Year) – Aaron Bravo
Aaron Bravo (Field Software Sales Specialist, Motorola Solutions) beat out a sensational group of Finalists to capture the first ever memoryBlue Phenom Award.
Aaron earned a $2,500 paid vacation and he captured a spot in company history.
We received close to 50 stellar applications for the 2019 award! Narrowing the well-qualified field to three finalists was an incredibly difficult job. However, the individuals selected for this honor accumulated professional sales accomplishments that stood above the pack.
The three finalists for the 2019 memoryBlue Phenom Award were:
Aaron Bravo: Field Software Sales Specialist, Motorola Solutions (WINNER)
memoryBlue Exit Year: 2017
Office: Austin
Finalist Packet: Aaron Bravo
Aaron has been promoted two times in two years since leaving memoryBlue and has grown from an inside sales rep to a field rep with a larger territory base than anyone in the software enterprise of Motorola. He now oversees a team of five people, two of which are doing a lead generation role similar to the SDR role at MemoryBlue. Aaron was poached from his prior inside sales role at Motorola directly by the VP of Software Enterprise to become a solution field specialist, a role where he is the youngest individual on the team by 20 years.