Jeremy Barnish

Current

Senior Director, Global Customer & Partner Communications at Sun Microsystems Inc
Senior Director, Virtualization, Services & Customer Engineering Portfolio, Sun Microsystems at Sun Microsystems

Past

Senior Director, Messaging & Positioning Initiative, Sun Microsystems at Sun Microsystems
Senior Director, US Marketing at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Senior Director, Customer Experience at Sun Microsystems

Senior Director, Global Communications, Sun Microsystems at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Director, Corp Comms, Exec Comms, Industry PR at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Speechwriter at Sun Microsystems Inc.
Senior Account Executive at Shandwick Communications
Senior Manager, Advertising & Corp. Identity at Unisys Ltd
Publications, Production Manager at Burroughs Machines Ltd
R&D Engineering at ICL Ltd
Forex, Telex and Collections Clerk at Calif. Canadian Bank

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Education

University College London

Recommended

11 people have recommended Jeremy

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

My Website

Jeremy Barnish’s Summary

Jeremy has 20 years of experience marketing enterprise, software and web technologies, creating award-winning programs and running teams in Fortune 500 companies and for the world’s hottest hi-tech agencies.

During his career he has developed a reputation as a highly talented executive and marketer on the forefront of the latest online trends; a world-class content and communications expert and an executive brand builder; able to build and run a cohesive team; with a unique ability to work with the indistinct to derive concrete results and get the job done. He is a prolific writer, blogger and talker on technology.

• A combination of technology savvy, customer-oriented and practical; able to hang out with engineers, discuss pipeline with sales, or develop a strategy for the boardroom.
• Branded and launched numerous well-known technologies, such as Java and Solaris, helping to bring Sun market cap to exceed IBM as ‘the dot in dot com.’
• World-class content expert, building reputations of well-known technology CEOs such as McNealy, Zander and Schmidt.
• Experience in most of the worlds major markets in customer marketing, global communications, public relations, marcom, corporate identity, go to market, executive communications, analyst relations and brand building.
• Successfully building and defending agency business.
• A respected leader in online community building and infrastructure inside Sun and Silicon Valley.
• A blogger, tumble-blogger, video blogger and social networking web head.

Jeremy Barnish’s Experience

Senior Director, Global Customer & Partner Communications

Sun Microsystems Inc

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

A newly created position managing all aspects of communications globally, with a focus on customers and partners.
Senior Director, Virtualization, Services & Customer Engineering Portfolio, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

• Running a billion dollar virtualization marketing initiative globally.
• Re-building a portfolio of campaigns for Sun’s $5B services sales practice.
• Working with Sun customer CTOs on communicating visionary technologies.
• Reinvigorating Sun’s customer engineering community with an innovative online infrastructure.
• Running numerous short video news briefing channels and programs.
Senior Director, Messaging & Positioning Initiative, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

September 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 2 months)

• Working with Sun’s marketing management team to re-brand the company and create a content-excellence program.
• Established company messaging processes and quality standards.
• The company guru at positioning and messaging for critical company launches and events.
• Produced and delivered successful company value proposition and value-based messaging training.
Senior Director, US Marketing

Sun Microsystems Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

2003 — September 2004 (1 year )

• Re-organized and started to re-establish credibility for Sun’s 120 people U.S. marketing organization, working across commercial and government sectors supporting a $4B US sales organization.
• Re-deployed a global marketing group of 500 people into account, partner and mid-market roles.
• Segmented top customers and partners into a new standard company-wide data model.
• Re-focused sales leadership team to communicate high impact new strategy to partners.
Senior Director, Customer Experience

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

• Ran Sun’s global briefing network and re-established credibility with sales and executive team.
• Doubled global briefings to 1,600 companies annually & rebuilt a new $20M briefing center.
• Re-engineered sales engagement to improve quality and commitment by sales and executives.
• Number one rated quality and volume presenter in the center.
Senior Director, Global Communications, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems Inc.

(Public Company; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )

• Directed all aspects of global communications functions, including broadcast and print media and analyst relations, internal communications, m&a, customer and launch events.
• Centralized 100+ people and rescaled the organization and budget during downturn.
• Developed Sun’s image Sun through the dot-com boom to a market cap exceeding IBM.
• Twice won Sun’s marketer-of-the-year award.
• Secured high profile placements in major global print and news media; established many new innovations in PR metrics and online tools.
• Ran most of the company’s major corporate events, from logistics to content.
Director, Corp Comms, Exec Comms, Industry PR

Sun Microsystems Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Built Sun’s corporate public relations, analyst relations, global events and executive image development functions during a time of massive expansion within the industry and Sun.
• Created the first truly successful executive communications functions in the company.
Speechwriter

Sun Microsystems Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )

Built up a reputation that stands to this day as longest-lasting speechwriter to Scott McNealy and Sun’s management team.
• Orchestrating up to 500 speeches annually into fully produced shows.
• Successfully helping develop the image and standing of Scott McNealy (Sun CEO), Ed Zander (ex CEO Motorola), Eric Schmidt (now CEO Google) and all members of Sun’s management team.
• Also managed financial services and then industry PR, putting Sun in the first cover stories of several national newspapers and magazines, as a result winning several company-wide internal awards.
Senior Account Executive

Shandwick Communications

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years )

Managing services and financial services industry public relations business in excess of $5M annually the agency of record for Sun and for other Silicon Valley accounts.
• Developed successful account relationships, led new business pitches and won the WSJ’s annual “tackiest” PR person award.
Senior Manager, Advertising & Corp. Identity

Unisys Ltd

(Public Company; UIS; Computer Hardware industry)

1989 — 1993 (4 years )

• Launched several new major integrated advertising and direct campaigns across Europe.
• Re-branded Unisys across the UK.
• Launched customer reference program.
Publications, Production Manager

Burroughs Machines Ltd

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

1983 — 1989 (6 years )

• Displaced entire central print production department with new buying and production system.
• Created several award winning technology magazines used globally.
• Pioneered meta-tagging to typesetting for production of all documentation.
R&D Engineering

ICL Ltd

(Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

1982 — 1982 (less than a year)

Analyst/programmer in CADES R&D group. The job that made me into the geek I am today.
Forex, Telex and Collections Clerk

Calif. Canadian Bank

(Computer Hardware industry)

1976 — 1976 (less than a year)

• In a year prior to college and during holiday breaks worked in forex department of a small California bank as a trader, telex operator and collections clerk.

Jeremy Barnish’s Education

University College London

B.A. Honours , Geography , 1979 — 1982

Additional Information

Jeremy Barnish’s Websites:

My Website

Jeremy Barnish’s Groups:

Executive Suite
Unisys - Ever Worked - Employees and Contractors
University College London Alumni
Public Relations and Communications Professionals
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Unisys Reconnected
Former Employees of Burroughs Corporation, The World's Largest Fraternity/Sorority
Masters of Customer Engagement
Transparency, Collaboration & Automation in IT Professional Services
Community Equity
Sun Execs
Brand Elevation & Social Media - Why Content Matters!