#101 · 54
Hellios Information
hellios.comUK -> US
144 staff · 5 commercial: 3 BD Managers, 1 SDR, 1 other
The ad is for a FOUNDING member of the North American commercial team - a first-hire signal, which the scoring model weights heavily.
Who to email
Founder/CEO — stands. no sales or RevOps leader on the roster - the founder stands
The hiring signal
Sales Development Representative (2026-08-11, Raleigh NC)
Kevin does NOT post · 0 own posts / 90 days · last 2026-07-07
The opener — fallback first
Fallback · send this unless you have a reason not to
“Saw you're hiring an SDR as a founding member of the North American team, building target account lists across procurement and third-party risk.”
Built from the ad: “become a founding member of our North American commercial team... Build targeted account lists using LinkedIn, CRM tools and market research”
sdr_ads.description, verbatim
Alternate 1 · from their posts
“Saw FSQS is heading to North America after 150+ financial institutions in the UK, and that you're hiring the founding SDR for it.”
Why: COMPANY PAGE, 2026-08-19, and it explains the seat exactly - the community is expanding to a new continent so someone has to open it. (company page 2026-08-19)
Watch: PAGE post, not his. He posts nothing.
CONTACT POSTS NOTHING, and he is MD Ireland / CIO - a plausible but indirect owner for a North American SDR hire. The ad names 'Business Development Manager' as the reporting line; that person is the better target if you can find them.
The play
Best play
US and Canadian banks, insurers and financial institutions not yet in the FSQS community, with the third-party risk or procurement lead on each row. The ad names the exact personas to map.
Why it sits here: FIRST-HIRE LANGUAGE, VERBATIM. 'Founding member' is the strongest timing signal in the ad corpus.
Halal: KEEP. Hellios sells a supplier-risk PLATFORM on subscription. Its customers are banks and insurers, which is why this is stated: selling compliance software to a bank is not earning interest. The PLAY targets those institutions as buyers of software - acceptable under the rule as written, but flag it to Devon before building, since the whole list is financial institutions.
Draft email
Subject options: North American institutions not yet in FSQS A list for the founding SDR
Hey Kevin,
Saw you're hiring an SDR as a founding member of the North American commercial team, building target account lists across procurement and third-party risk.
To help them start faster we'll pull the US and Canadian institutions not yet in the FSQS community, with the third-party risk or procurement lead named on each row, which is the exact persona pair your ad asks them to map.
A founding hire spends their first quarter building that list, so this is the part we'd hand over on day one.
Would that be useful?
Let me know and I'm happy to send it over, no strings.
Plain Arial on purpose - select from Hey to strings and paste straight into the email.