
CEO at Not Telling Yet
Portland, Oregon Area

CEO at Not Telling Yet
Portland, Oregon Area
Sam Lawrence, CEO for Not Telling Yet, is is known for going big. He is an unconventional and experienced leader who knows how to bring big ideas to reality. A frequent industry speaker and popular Enterprise blogger, Sam is well known as a firestarter and thought-leader. He draws from 18 years of technology experience having lead Fortune-level companies and start ups to success. Sam comes to (Not Telling Yet) from Jive Software where as CMO, he reshaped the company, got them on the map, and on track to Go BIg. Previous to that he was at McCann Erickson where he was a senior vice president in charge of marketing efforts for Microsoft's global Microsoft Office business unit, including Microsoft SharePoint, Live Meeting and Live Communication Server. Prior, Sam has lead Marketing for a roster of marquee companies including Dell, CNET and 3Com. He was named a INVESP top 100 Influential Marketer in 2008.
Big ideas that grow companies.
www.gobigalways.com
(Computer Software industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
You'll see.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — April 2009 (3 years 10 months)
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Ran worldwide Microsoft Office business (22 countries). It would have been fun except for the part that had to do with Microsoft.
(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years)
Lots of time convincing *really* big companies to spend money on tv advertising.
(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
This job ended up being focused on a year's worth of reduction-in-force operations (firing people). Thank god we're past 2001.
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Loved this job, too. So fun. Headed Marketing at a time of tremendous growth and excitement for the company and the market. Great people at CNET.
(Public Company; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Ran the consumer and SMB online business and learned a ton.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
I didn't know much about marketing back then. But I learned a lot and made great friends.
MBA ,
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Tech. Tech. And tech.