VP Marketing at PGP Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
VP Marketing at PGP Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
I am a well rounded marketing executive with a strong track record of product strategy, positioning, outbound marketing, and strategic selling. I know how to leverage marketing to take products from inception to market leadership. Having come out of Sales, I know what effective marketing looks like. Having a computer science degree and broad curiousity, I understand a wide range of technology: virtualization, SOA, SaaS, integration and security.
Market awareness, lead generation, company positioning, press and analyst relations, vertical marketing, product strategy, product management, venture financing, channel sales, OEM licensing, complex transactions, unconventional thinking, dry humor.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (5 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — February 2008 (7 years 8 months)
Responsible for all aspects of marketing, positioning, and product strategy at a leading database virtualization company.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RSAS; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Responsible for product strategy, product marketing, P&L across multiple product lines at a leading Internet security vendor. Managed team of six product management and product marketing managers. Worked with sales management to double revenue of developer tools to over $50M. Introduced new line of PKI server products to bridge developer and enterprise sales organizations. Conducted strategic sales and licensing deals for CEO.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Brought on to start product management function in company. Worked to define requirements for all developer products, and to help close strategic sales. Introduced line of Java developer tools. Created firewall and VPN interoperability consortium. Helped create and promulgate S/MIME e-mail standard.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1995 — March 1996 (1 year 1 month)
First system engineer brought on to accelerate technical sales of RSA's security software. Worked directly with major customers, including Apple, Bank of America, BEA, Cisco, Netscape, Wells Fargo and others.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1992 — March 1995 (2 years 9 months)
Senior technical specialist supporting large automotive, electronics and government acccounts. Focus on client-server computing and emerging internet technology.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1990 — July 1992 (2 years 7 months)
Senior technical liaison to US and European companies operating in Japan. First U.S. college new graduate hired to work at Digital Japan.
BS, Computer Science, 1985 — 1989
Dean's List Honor Society
Senior Project in Neural Network Learning
CMO Council
Silicon Valley American Marketing Association, CMO Club