by Nathan Thompson | Jan 6, 2026 | Sales
Your marketing team is hitting its MQL goals, but the sales team is still missing quota. Sound familiar? This disconnect is not surprising when one analysis puts the average MQL to SQL conversion rate at just 13%, pointing to a gap between what marketing flags and...We are excited to announce that Fullcast has acquired Commissionly!
Bala Balabaskaran didn’t set out to become a founder; he built Fullcast because the tools he needed didn’t exist.
As VP of Go-to-Market Technology and Operations at Salesforce, Bala was charged with aligning sales, support, and service across a massive global organization. But even with world-class systems and teams, the process was fractured: plans made in spreadsheets didn’t translate to execution. Territory changes took weeks. GTM strategies were outdated the moment they were finalized.
So Bala built something better.
With decades of experience at Microsoft, HP, and Salesforce, and multiple patents in enterprise software, Bala knew how to create systems that scale. In 2016, he co-founded Fullcast, a platform that unites planning and execution so RevOps teams can move at the speed of change.