Who is this event for
Current CMOs who want to meet with peers, discuss challenges, share best practices and new ideas in delivering marketing for fast-moving startups and organizations.
Open to anyone who provides overall leadership for the marketing function (development, hiring, etc) in their company.
Takeaways
The key takeaways for this event:
1. Discuss current tech trends
2. Exchange job/role opportunities
3. Share war stories
4. Networking
Moderator
Agnes Gradzewicz, CMO, Smarty Software
Agnes graduated from University of London and has 10 years experience in marketing, events and media. She was a director of Business Media Group, where she supervised international expansion of the finance magazine. Agnes worked as head of marketing at number of companies such as Climate Action, AIDF and B&F Services.
She was also a consultant working with number of startup businesses to create a business plan.
USA Marketing expert
Ali Din from NYC
Ali Din resides primarily in New York City. Other times, he is traveling between Los Angeles and London. He enjoys diving into the disciplines of brand management, product marketing, and customer experience (CX).
Currently, Ali oversees the day to day operations at dinCloud including sales, marketing, product development, support, and engineering.
Prior to this role, Ali was the SVP of Marketing and Brand Management for a national IT VAR (value added reseller). There, he managed relationships with brands such as HP, Microsoft, Cisco, and Symantec. He also oversaw lead generation and marketing communications. Ali’s experience includes incubation of new products such as the predecessor to Office 365 and SaaS (software-as-a-service) offerings. He was the VP of Strategic Development at SupplyAccess, a B2B e-procurement software company that had received $36M in funding from SAP Ventures, Tech Data, Peregrine, and others. As the Implementation Manager, he worked with EDS EMEA to launch a multi-national software rollout. Other experiences include working in Finance at Firstsource, a B2B e-tailer, which was later purchased by Office Depot.
Ali graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and obtained his MBA from the University of Southern California.
Agenda
12.30 pm to 01.00 pm: Registration and networking
01.00 pm to 2.00 pm: Presentation and Q&A
2.00 pm to 2.30 pm: More networking
Laptops
You will need to bring your laptop for this workshop
Directions
Tube: Bank station, exit 9 Off Old Jewry
CMO recruitment
Post all your CMO recruitment requirements in the message board below.
To be clear: this is not a hiring event, it's for CMOs themselves to talk about marketing, management, etc. But we're very happy to share details of companies looking for CMO, etc.
