Dave Prager

VP of Engineering

Mountain View, California, United States19 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led marketing at AI-powered startup from pre-seed to Series B.
  • Created brand strategy for SAP's first digital native offerings.
  • Advised on market entry for AI-driven health technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B SaaS marketing leader with expertise in account-based marketing and brand strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

B2b SaasMarketing StrategyBrand StrategyMarketing CommunicationsCorporate Marketing

Other Skills

Account MarketingAccount-based marketingB2B MarketingBig DataBrand DevelopmentBrand positioningBrandingBranding & IdentityCRMCampaign executionCategory creationCloud ComputingContent StrategyContent marketingContent strategy

About

I'm a hands-on marketing leader who helps B2B SaaS and AI companies realize ambitious visions for their brands and their businesses. Especially B2B SaaS companies with complex products, long sales cycles, and an ABM sales motion. Coming from the storytelling side of the business, I look at every customer interaction through a narrative lens. I've done this at startups (such as Drishti, where I led marketing to build an AI-powered brand and a category from pre-seed through Series B); at enterprises (such as SAP, where I was the marcomm director for SAP's first digital native, on-demand offerings); and at mid-size companies (such as Front, where I ran brand and product marketing and ensured both were in lockstep). I'm currently doing this at Stampli, where I'm VP of Marketing. My style: pass trust to my team, fail quickly so we can course correct, and always be wary of status quo bias. Across these companies and others, including my time on Madison Avenue, there have been a few common themes: • B2B software • Long sales cycles • Strong vertical plays • ABM sales motions • Deep partnership with the sales teams • Turning complex offerings into simple (but compelling!) stories • Reforming siloed marketing activities around a joint customer-first narrative • Integrated campaigns with great content at their hearts I drive the business as a strategic member of the leadership team, and help solve problems far beyond the traditional boundaries of marketing. Even as I roll up my sleeves and help the team wrestle down individual tactics or craft the perfect headline. Beyond the day-to-day, I've spoken to audiences large and small, on three continents and counting. And I even have a patent for my contribution to Drishti's AI. How many marketers can say that? Search for "WO2019090264A1". Specialties: B2B SaaS companies with account-based marketing sales motions Complex buying groups with long sales cycles Category creation Brand strategy Corporate marketing Communications Public relations Integrated marketing Digital marketing infrastructure Sales enablement Digital demand generation Marketing strategy, positioning, messaging Building scalable systems Data-driven decision making Product marketing Digital marketing SEO and SGE Generative AI GTM Brand awareness Positioning Messaging Segmentation Differentiation

Experience

Stampli

Vice President Marketing

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

  • Accounts Payable automation is one of the most crowded and competitive space in FinTech. The easy way to succeed in this space is to spend millions of dollars on ads and brute force your way to into deals.
  • The easy way doesn't build a sustainable business.
  • At Stampli, I oversee a 10-person marketing team with an extremely broad mandate: Raise awareness, generate demand, support our high-performing SDR team, enable our amazing AEs and CS teams, and bring our new products and features to market. All while driving CAC incessantly downward.
  • Doing so requires repeatable process building, constant optimization, a willingness to take risks, and a delight in failing because that puts us one step closer to success.
B2B SaaSAccount-based marketingDemand generationProduct marketingBrand strategyMarketing strategy

Movement health science

GTM Advisor

Aug 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Silicon Valley, California, United States

  • MHS draws on AI motion data, kinematic movement data and decades of experience to compile an athlete’s Movement Signature. This signature pinpoints the mechanical factors that inhibit performance, contribute to injury and ultimately limit opportunity — and creates the roadmap to guide the athlete to overcome. I am advising MHS on all elements of market entry, including marketing and sales strategy, discovering product/market fit, establishing market presence, and growing revenue.
Market entry strategySales strategyProduct/market fitMarketing strategy

Front

Head of Brand & Product Marketing

Oct 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • My role at Front was to ensure our brand was anchored to the value we deliver to our customers -- and that it resonated strongly with our buyer personas -- by establishing and strengthening the connective tissue between these functions.
  • Some of my major contributions to the business included:
  • ❇️ Re-establishing our positioning and activating it across all touchpoints
  • ❇️ Creating the product adoption framework that's core to our revenue protection strategy
  • ❇️ Creating scalable, archetype-driven approach to vertical marketing and demand creation
  • ❇️ Articulating the company mission and vision with our CEO
  • ❇️ Creating a new brand strategy and the underlying brand opinions
  • ❇️ Infusing our brand opinions into PR, social, product launches and business value/ROI enablement
  • ❇️ Reorienting our pricing and packaging around narratives instead of features
  • ❇️ Building the muscles for content distribution, not just content creation
  • ❇️ Turning siloed marketing into integrated marketing
Brand positioningProduct adoption frameworkIntegrated marketingBrand strategy

Drishti

Global VP of Marketing

Sep 2017Sep 2021 · 4 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

  • <Exit: Acquired by Apple> I joined Drishti, the leading AI computer vision company for manufacturing, as employee #3 and a member of the founding team. When I chose to leave, we'd built the company to 110+ people and still growing.
  • I built the marketing practice from scratch. This began with brand and category creation from pre-seed through Series A, and transitioned into demand generation, pipeline building and digital marketing as we shifted into growth mode post Series B. I helped drive the company to a triple-digit employee base and a double-digit customer base that includes some of the world's most respected and renowned manufacturers.
  • I built our market presence, which was validated through the recognition below:
  • 2021 CB Insights AI 100
  • Four 2021 North American Manufacturing Awards
  • NVIDIA: Top AI company, 2020
  • 2020 Forbes AI 50
  • 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
Category creationDemand generationPipeline buildingB2B SaaS

Sap

Director of Marketing Communications

Jul 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • The SAP Digital business unit was simultaneously pioneering a new business model for SAP and speaking to an audience that SAP had never before addressed. Reporting directly to the Chief Digital Officer, my role was to make SAP’s “digital native” offerings relevant to individual buyers. I managed marcomm from the strategic level (brand strategy, content strategy) down to the most tactical levels (web presence, SEO, social, content marketing, events, demand gen content, in-product messaging, and more).
  • Nominated for SAP's 2017 Hasso Plattner Founder's Award, for my work on the "WorkConnect by SAP" product launch, which included ensuring consistent positioning and messaging across every customer-facing touchpoint. Watch the video below.
Brand strategyContent strategySEOMarketing communications

Intermedia

3 roles

Director of Corporate Marketing

Promoted

Nov 2014Jun 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • I oversaw nearly every discipline of external communications at Intermedia, a B2B cloud software company. This included managing 4 direct reports and 12 people in total—the largest team in Intermedia’s marketing department—across Intermedia’s content, PR, design and web production teams. I also managed our PR and SEO agencies, and oversaw all major video productions.
  • In four years, I helped the company triple revenue to $200M+, triple EBITDA, launch a dozen new products, grow from 350 to 750 employees, triple the paid user base to 1+ million, and position itself for a successful acquisition.
External communicationsContent marketingPublic relationsCorporate marketing

Director of Content & Communications

Promoted

Oct 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Oversaw all content marketing, PR and marketing communications activities for Intermedia.
Content marketingPublic relationsMarketing communications

Content Lead

May 2012Oct 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Created Intermedia’s content marketing program and established myself as the lead for all of the company’s marketing communications. .
Content marketing

Self employed

Corporate Marketing Consultant for B2B tech brands

Apr 2011May 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Denver Area

  • Consulted with advertising agencies and tech companies to create content and marcomm for brands like SAP, VMware, Google, Brocade, Avaya, TD Ameritrade, Ciber, and more.

Backroom management services, llc

Director of Marketing

May 2010Jun 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I dedicated a year to help my father prepare his bookkeeping outsourcing company for regional growth. I executed and developed systems for all aspects of marketing, including CRM, sales collateral, branding, online presence, and much more.
CRMBranding

Possible

Senior Copywriter

May 2009Nov 2009 · 6 mos · Singapore

  • At Possible (then called Blue Singapore), my global clients included SAP, VMWare, Motorola, as well many local accounts. Projects included website redesigns, strategizing and executing regional and global campaigns, and developing customer-facing videos and animations for complex SAP and VMWare products.
CopywritingCampaign execution

Wunderman

2 roles

Creative Group Head (New Delhi, India)

Nov 2007Mar 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Wunderman tapped me to bring global best practices to this young, rapidly-growing agency in India. As Group Lead, I managed day-to-day direct marketing and relationship marketing copy for the Microsoft India account. I also mentored copywriters, and trained creative staff in craft and presentation skills.
Direct marketingRelationship marketing

Senior Copywriter

Nov 2004Nov 2007 · 3 yrs

  • I concepted, presented, and executed campaigns for dozens of Microsoft B2B products, as well as Smith Barney, Nationwide, Sirius, MSN, and more.
Direct marketingCampaign execution

Education

Syracuse University

BS — Advertising

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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