Stephen Peacock

Current

Freelance at TheMadPeacock Consulting

Past

VP Product Marketing at Image Metrics
Head of Worldwide Sales at Emergent Game Technologies
Conference Director at The Game Initiative

Global Games Manager at NXN Software Inc.

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Stephen Peacock’s Summary

Empowering creative teams through technology is what I love to do. Providing the tools that help them build rich digital content and exploring new ways to help them communicate their vision remains a driving passion.

I am looking for a team that shares my passion, will benefit from my domain knowledge and challenge me to grow as a technologist and leader.

Stephen Peacock’s Specialties:

Business development, Go-To-Market strategist, Sales strategy, Sales leadership, Revenue creation, Client relations, Team leadership, Contract negotiation, Partner relations, Production consulting, Product design

Stephen Peacock’s Experience

Freelance

TheMadPeacock Consulting

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

Currently working with two client companies to align their existing products with market needs, develop new products and grow revenue.
VP Product Marketing

Image Metrics

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

September 2008 — March 2009 (7 months)

Born from computer vision research Image Metrics has a wealth of intellectual property and prototyped solutions relevant to a multitude of industries. Unfortunately market factors in late 2008 significantly affected the availability of the growth funding my group needed.
o Began the work of productizing existing facial animation service as a SaaS technology
o Explored market opportunities for unused computer vision IP.
o Restructured and re-priced the existing animation service to fit market needs
o Recruited and managed a programming team
o Managed the transition of product development to the Los Angeles office.
Head of Worldwide Sales

Emergent Game Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

February 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Gamebryo is one of the oldest and most widely adopted game engine technologies in the world. I joined the sales team to manage the West Coast. Early on I worked with the president on an alternative go-to-market strategy. This work led to my promotion to Head of Worldwide Sales where I was tasked with restructuring the company’s sales strategy and team.
o Reduced expense to revenue ratio
o Delivered consecutive record breaking quarters
o Recruited technical account managers to improve customer care
o Created a proactive services position focused on customer issue prevention
Conference Director

The Game Initiative

(Privately Held; Events Services industry)

April 2006 — October 2006 (7 months)

The Austin Game Conference was already established as the second largest game developers conference in the USA when I joined the team.
o Created the “Art Track”
o Secured Dell as hardware partner
o Secured Softimage, Autodesk and others to provide hands-on 3D tool training
o Goal of increasing show attendance by artists was achieved
Global Games Manager

NXN Software Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 1999 — November 2005 (6 years 2 months)

During my six years with the Alienbrain team we built the digital asset management market from nothing. Being a part of the core team that grew NXN from fifteen people when I joined to a global company with market dominance and brand recognition at acquisition was a phenomenal experience.
o Managed largest clients (Sony and Infogrames) as technical account manager
o Championed consultative services approach to client base expansion
o Expanded customer base to include most large UK studios as business account manager
o Success of client focused go-to-market strategy lead to role as Global Games Manager