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Dave is an experienced global B2B Chief Marketing Officer / Marketing Director with an established reputation for delivering commercial results in start-up, mid-tier, and blue-chip businesses across technology, and business services and professional services sectors. Dave has worked for major brands such as Telefonica O2, EY, and Barclays and held posts from Chief Marketing Officer to Director of Online, has run his own business, and managed a P&L for a major corporate. He is chair and co-founder of the Business Marketing Club (www.businessmarketingclub.org.uk) – a network of B2B marketers. In 2019, he was named one of the top 100 B2B European marketing leaders (https://www.hottopics.ht/34199/top-100-b2b-european-marketing-leaders-2019/). He is a graduate of Cambridge University, a Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Chartered Marketer and holds a MBA with Imperial College, London. Dave is a keen cyclist and adventure traveller, is married, and lives in Buckinghamshire. You can read his blogs at www.DaveStevensNow.com.

Category: b2b marketing

  • Not up where you belong…

    The B2B Marketing team have asked me to speak at the next Leaders’ Forum on 19 September on the subject of why marketing has become so disconnected from the boardroom and what we can do about it. Perhaps recognising that I’m not such a big name draw as my fellow speakers from Fujitsu, O2, Circle…

  • Mind the gap between the boardroom and the marketing department!

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I’ve been thinking rather a lot recently about the connection between businesses and their marketing departments. In all too many of the organisations that I come across, there is a regular complaint from execs that they do not know what their marketing department does or how it benefits their business. Frequently…

  • The tablet is here. Deal with it…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ Venture capitalist Mary Meeker recently presented a paper at Stanford comparing the first ten quarters of shipments of each of Apple‘s “I” devices – iPod, iPhone, and iPad. The paper showed that iPad shipments in the product’s first 30 months outrate the iPhone threefold. By January 2012, according to the Pew…

  • Something is rotten in the state of marketing…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I set off for the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank this morning to attend the B2B Marketing Awards Showcase event (www.b2bmarketing.net/awards-showcase). To my knowledge this event is a new concept in events in the marketing space where, rather than simply attending an awards ceremony to watch winners collect trophies…

  • The Social Media Crash is coming…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I see that B2B Marketing magazine has published its latest IT Marketing Benchmarketing Report (go to http://www.b2bmarketing.net/it-benchmarking-2013 for details). And I’m delighted to report that this survey of 200 technology marketing practitioners (and one day we should get behind exactly what a marketing practitioner is. I’m a CMO and I consider…

  • Does your business know what it really wants?

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I was lucky enough to meet with Professor Malcolm McDonald this week at a gathering of sales and marketing leads arranged by PA Consulting Group.  McDonald proved to be the draw for many of the attendees.  He is something of a legend in marketing circles alongside the likes of Kotler and Levitt. …

  • Why there’s no such thing as “Content Marketing”…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I wish I could say that I found the first grey hair on my head when looking in the shaving mirror this morning. But the truth is that I think I’ve identified enough grey in what little hair I still have to say I’m beyond that.  I recognise a statistically significant trend…

  • Why is listening more important than talking in social media?

    By Dave Stevens Google+ I attended PRmoment.com’s “Social media in B2B Communications:  The power of integration” conference on Wednesday and presented a paper on why listening is more important than talking in social media.  This is a summary of what I presented… There are some honourable exceptions, but the state of social media in B2B…

  • Shut the door as you leave the nursery please…

    Shut the door as you leave the nursery please…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ And so it’s back to business!  Whether it’s the arrival of Labor Day, the end of the school holidays, or simply the change of the weather, you can’t help but have picked up the signals that the final business term of 2012 is upon us. For marketers, the season ahead is always…

  • Why B2B Marketing should get more emotional…

    Why B2B Marketing should get more emotional…

    By Dave Stevens Google+ Last weekend, I headed up to Edinburgh to spend a couple of days enjoying the Fringe Festival.  If you’ve not been, it’s well-worth a visit.  There’s a real sense of carnival to proceedings.  There are hundreds of shows that you can dip into covering comedy, drama, dance, and magic.  And even…