The Demo Coach
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Chief Demo Coach at The Demo Coach
- Past
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- Director, Strategic Business Development at SanDisk
- Sr. Director Business Development at U3 LLC
- Sr. Director at Extensity
- Sr. Director Business Development at Symbol Technology
- Western Regional Tech Support Manager at ISSCO Graphics
- Education
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- State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Nathan Gold’s Summary
Nathan Gold founded The Demo Coach in 2000. He has given 15,000 software and hardware product demos during his career. He has worked with small and large companies—such as SanDisk, Symbol Technologies, Nokia, Bill.com, Education.com, U3, and IBM—on how to deliver more compelling and memorable demos. He has also a co-author of Giving Memorable Product Demos, published in June, 2009 and is available on Amazon.com.
Nathan was born in the late 1950s. Growing up, his favorite show was Star Trek and was mesmerized by the space ships, phasers, tricorders, universal translators, and especially, the communicators. That program started his love for technology.
On Labor Day 1980, he packed everything he owned into his beat up Oldsmobile and left for California. Five days later, he had four job interviews in Los Angeles and three in San Diego. Nathan chose a small software company in San Diego named ISSCO Graphics, where he spent seven years traveling around the world training their customers. Nathan was always the go-to-guy for all high-level executive sales briefings, trade shows, press issues, and analysts' product demo needs.
In early 1990, Nathan fell in love with pen computers and mobile computing. He spent over 10 years working with people all over the world, evangelizing technology such as the Palm Pilot. During this time, he started helping other people with their product demos. And he did it as a favor.
In April 2000, Nathan started The Demo Coach because he believed he could help other people learn to give more compelling and memorable demos. Since then, he has coached people in companies of all sizes.
Nathan is also a winner of the distinguished DEMOgod Award, given to him at DEMOmobile 2000 for being “A one man walking communications store with the ability to deliver an incredibly well-timed demonstration.” And at DEMOfall 2005, he won another DEMOgod Award for his demo of U3.
Nathan Gold’s Specialties:
Coaching people in how to script and deliver memorable presentations and product demos.
Nathan Gold’s Experience
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Chief Demo Coach
The Demo Coach
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2000 — Present (9 years 8 months)
The Demo Coach is a technology training company specializing in teaching people how to give power demos.
I coach people to give more passionate and memorable product demos. With two DEMOgod Awards and 30 years in the business of demonstrating products, my coaching will help you in your demos...Guaranteed. -
Director, Strategic Business Development
SanDisk
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SNDK; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — March 2008 (3 years 4 months)
I evangelize the USBTV and Digital Content applications for SanDisk. I work with major consumer electronics manufacturers and major content providers such as television and movie studios.
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Sr. Director Business Development
U3 LLC
(Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
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Sr. Director
Extensity
(Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
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Sr. Director Business Development
Symbol Technology
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1995 — 1999 (4 years )
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Western Regional Tech Support Manager
ISSCO Graphics
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
September 1980 — July 1986 (5 years 11 months)
Nathan Gold’s Education
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
BS , Computer Science and Theatre , 1977 — 1979
