Sean Daily is a Northern California-based entrepreneur and Internet marketing expert with a strong business and technology background. Through the marketing agencies he founded, Social Media Ninjas & Dental Marketing Ninjas, Sean helps dozens of small to medium-sized businesses across the US increase revenue through inbound, social media, mobile, and local search marketing strategies. Sean's clients include Cisco Systems and a well-known Hollywood actress/model. He also, with his wife Heather, co-founded and directs Loving Home Ministries, a 501c3 non-profit that supports Kenyan orphans. Sean has also been responsible for the founding of several other successful ventures including Realtime Publishers, the world's first sponsored IT book publisher, MartialSkill University, the world's first online martial arts school teaching traditional kung fu, and the environmental media networks Simple Earth Media, GreenLivingIdeas.com and BlueLivingIdeas.com. Over the past 30+ years, Mr. Daily’s activities have also included hosting the highly popular environmental podcast GreenTalk Radio, an eight-year stint as Senior Contributing Editor to Informa's Windows IT Pro Magazine (formerly Windows & .NET and Windows 2000/NT Magazine), authoring numerous books including Optimizing Windows NT® (IDG), The Definitive Guide™ to Windows 2000 Administration and The Definitive Guide™ to Active Directory Troubleshooting (Realtimepublishers.com), as well as being a frequent speaker at industry conferences throughout the world. Specialties: Online and inbound marketing, SEO, SEM/PPC, social media, local search, video marketing, content marketing strategy development, content-based marketing programs.

I love understanding challenges and solving both strategic and tactical problems. Over my 25 year career I have excelled in many areas, acquired new skills, and yet, I appreciate there will always be new skills to master within the dynamic IT industry. I have had the pleasure of working in companies with a few, a few hundred, and more than 13,000 employees. In each of these companies I have been able to hone my skills and grasp the art of Product Management and Marketing by • Prioritizing precious time and engineering resources as the sole person responsible for all aspects of product management and marketing in an early stage start up • Understanding and predicting customer problems while working in a cross-functional product management team in multi-billion-dollar company, and how to effect change by introducing new, and innovative, products into established markets • Managing a world class team of product marketing experts, in a multi-billion-dollar company, that messages solution value and not only technical value • Running, as part of the extended executive leadership team, my product line while monitoring and overseeing revenue and profit margins Storytelling and Selling by • Conveying, through direct conversations, the value of the solution with the technical IT administrators as well as the business value with IT executives • Working directly with customers and partners through the entire sales cycle from opportunity qualification through obtaining the purchase order. Partnering with customers in both pre and post sales activities, including on-site product installation • Designing playbooks for sales and enabling sales engineers to position, and successfully sell, the solutions • Creating compelling stories to communicate the value of the solution to press and industry analysts Professional Skills Product Management | Product Marketing | Sales & SE Enablement | Market and Pricing Analysis | Strategic Product Planning | Business Development | Agile Product Management | Atlassian | Salesforce.com Domain Knowledge Storage | Storage Management | Data Protection | Virtualization | Cloud | Enterprise Solution Selling | Channel Solution Selling

I am a business focused startup and technology executive delivering measurable results for organizations through leadership of product and software delivery. My focus is optimizing software development organizations to deliver world class results integrated with the broader operations of a company. I do this through holistic leadership of product delivery and thought leadership on agile and lean startup practices. Key to my success is building and leading high performing cross functional teams and developing the leadership capability of my staff. I have worked with organizations ranging from tiny startups up through Fortune 100 multinational enterprises. My sweet spot is growing startups and mid-sized technology companies looking to scale up their capabilities and become mature, high caliber technology organizations without bogging down in process and bureaucracy.

Director, Experiential Marketing for Pinterest. Creating live events and experiential marketing campaigns to engage with our community of advertisers and creators. Amplifying the Pinterest brand story and driving comprehension of how Pinterest inspires hundreds of millions of people to build the lives they love.

Since 2005 I have led sales organisations working with amazingly talented teams/people across multiple geographies. Building teams and environments that smash sales targets again and again. Embracing digital technology has become key to making decisions faster however it’s about developing and improving people alongside technology that creates better outcomes and new opportunities/value for the customers we serve. EXPERT SALES & MARKETING LEADER Proven leader in designing, developing and executing sales and revenue strategies that delivers exceptional results. I am authentic, passionate and persuasive while ensuring we hit plan. I deliver for employees, customers and shareholders. BUILDER OF HIGHLY ENGAGED TEAMS High employee engagement is critical to success, I have always ensured employee engagement was measured frequently, created an environment where employees are listened too and provided clarity on the purpose of their role as an employee. During my time at Pitney Bowes I achieved the highest employee engagement scores globally while for 3 years running was the top sales director by some margin. GO-TO-MARKET SPECIALIST I excel in understanding the total addressable market, customer/client needs, products, value proposition and competitive landscape. This allows me to create and deliver highly effective GTM plans across multiple product lines/solutions/ geographies.