Danny Hayasaka 🎥🎧 — CEO

I help organizations rethink how meeting rooms should work without locking themselves into a single meeting platform or hardware ecosystem. As Managing Director, Americas & SVP, Global Marketing at Mago, I work with enterprises, education, and public-sector organizations to modernize collaboration as Mago evolves into a Meeting Room Experience Platform. Mago is a software-based, meeting-platform-agnostic, and hardware-agnostic solution that connects users to Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, and more using the video conferencing equipment organizations already have or choose to deploy. Wireless content sharing is a major pain point in meeting rooms that we help solve. Still, it’s only one piece of a broader experience layer that unifies meeting access, content sharing, and room workflows securely across boardrooms, huddle spaces, classrooms, and hybrid environments. With 27+ years of experience across sales, marketing, and solution development, I understand the real challenges teams face: platform lock-in, licensing complexity, procurement workflows, user adoption, and ongoing IT support. My focus is on helping leaders see that there is a better path, one built on freedom, flexibility, and consistency across every meeting room. I work closely with leading video conferencing and display manufacturers, including Neat, Yealink, Rocware, Sennheiser, Jabra, Huddly, Logitech, SMART, Shure, Samsung, LG, QOMO, and others, ensuring solutions are interoperable, future-ready, and grounded in real-world deployment. Alongside my role at Mago, I remain an independent technology reviewer, evaluating legacy and emerging collaboration technologies across headsets, webcams, speakerphones, and complete room systems. I provide hands-on demos and unbiased insights from open offices, home offices, noisy environments, and major industry events such as ISE, InfoComm, and GITEX, sharing practical takeaways with those who can’t attend in person. If you’re exploring a more flexible, secure, and future-proof approach to meeting rooms, I’m always open to connecting. 🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/@dannyhayasaka 📧 Email: danny.hayasaka@mago.io 📝 Blog: https://substack.com/@dannyhayasaka

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in collaboration and communication technologies.

Location: Melbourne, Florida, United States

Experience: 33 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Market Strategy
Collaboration Solutions
Brand Strategy
Go-to-market Execution
Content Creation

Career Highlights

Expert in modern collaboration technologies.
Proven track record in market expansion.
Independent reviewer with significant online presence.

Work Experience

Mago

Managing Director, Americas & SVP, Global Marketing (8 mos)

Call One, Inc.

Senior Director of Marketing & Emerging Technology (6 yrs 3 mos)

Senior Director of Sales and Marketing (2 yrs 9 mos)

Director of Sales (4 yrs 1 mo)

Strategic UC&C Development Manager (4 mos)

National Sales Manager (5 yrs 2 mos)

Account Executive (6 yrs 11 mos)

Shipping/Receiving Clerk (1 yr)

Hello Direct

Senior Director of Marketing and Emerging Technology (6 yrs 3 mos)

US Army

Medical Laboratory Specialist (6 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Health Science Laboratory Technology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

at Cameron University

at Imperial Valley College

High School Diploma at Central Union High School

Danny Hayasaka 🎥🎧

CEO

Melbourne, Florida, United States33 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in modern collaboration technologies.
Proven track record in market expansion.
Independent reviewer with significant online presence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in collaboration and communication technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Market StrategyCollaboration SolutionsBrand StrategyGo-to-market ExecutionContent Creation

Other Skills

Wireless content sharingSales enablementEnterprise advisoryThought leadershipProduct advocacyPartnership developmentCampaign managementCampaign strategyPartner collaborationTech testingVideo productionRemote Device ManagementUnified CommunicationsSolution SellingDirect Sales

About

Experience

33 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Mago

Managing Director, Americas & SVP, Global Marketing

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · United States · Remote

At Mago, I lead our North American market strategy and global brand presence, driving our wireless content sharing and conferencing platform adoption across enterprise, education, and public sector markets. Mago empowers people and organizations to 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭, and 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 without friction. Mago is hardware and platform agnostic and works with existing displays and meeting room systems.
My role bridges strategic leadership, hands-on business development, and thought leadership to position Mago as a trusted partner for modern collaboration.
Key Responsibilities & Achievements
Market Expansion: Building Mago’s presence in the Americas through strategic partnerships, reseller networks, and direct enterprise engagements.
Global Marketing Leadership: Overseeing brand strategy, campaigns, and content that position Mago as the intuitive, secure, and scalable choice for wireless collaboration.
Sales Enablement: Creating tools, comparison guides, and training resources that equip partners and sales teams to win in competitive environments.
Enterprise Advisory: Collaborating with IT decision-makers, AV integrators, and procurement leaders to implement flexible strategies for hybrid work and learning.
Thought Leadership: Representing Mago at industry events, webinars, and podcasts to share market insights, best practices, and deployment successes.
Product Advocacy: Providing real-world feedback to product teams to shape features and ensure solutions align with customer needs.
Focus Areas
✔ Wireless content sharing & conferencing solutions
✔ Enterprise & education AV strategies
✔ Certified devices & platform interoperability (Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex)
✔ Channel partner enablement & training
✔ Real-world testing & proof-of-concept deployments

Wireless content sharingCollaboration solutionsMarket strategyBrand strategySales enablementEnterprise advisory+2

Call one, inc.

7 roles

Senior Director of Marketing & Emerging Technology

Promoted

May 2019 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos

I lead strategy, content creation, and go-to-market execution for professional-grade communication and collaboration solutions. I help businesses make informed purchasing decisions by producing real-world demos, training content, and partner-driven campaigns. Recently, I’ve expanded into a direct sales role, working closely with large enterprise clients to rebuild and grow our headset and UC business.
Key Focus Areas:
Thought Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert in business communications, specializing in headsets, webcams, speakerphones, and video conferencing solutions from Logitech, Jabra, HP Poly, Yealink, EPOS, Shokz, and others.
Content Creation: Script, film, edit, and publish product reviews, mic tests, and real-world demos (30,000+ YouTube subscribers) across environments like open offices, homes, airports, and cafes.
Sales Enablement: Develop training decks, comparison tools, and messaging that equip sales teams to uncover whitespace opportunities and align tech to use cases across SMBs to large enterprises.
Campaign Strategy: Drive integrated campaigns using HubSpot, email, SEO, and social to support product launches, bundles, and promotions across multiple channels.
Partner Collaboration: Engage directly with OEMs and channel partners for content, testing, webinars, and co-marketing. Regularly film at trade shows and partner HQs.
Business Development Support: Contribute to reactivation and acquisition efforts with targeted content, landing pages, and demo-focused campaigns to generate leads and meetings.
Tech Testing & Reviews: Lead product evaluations and hands-on testing to ensure accurate content and customer recommendations based on real-world performance.
Diversity & Procurement: Promote our status as a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and support enterprise procurement through integration with SAP Ariba, Coupa, and ServiceNow.

Go-to-market executionContent creationSales enablementCampaign strategyPartner collaborationTech testing

Senior Director of Sales and Marketing

Promoted

Aug 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Building an awesome team that gets sh*t done and has fun doing it!
Strong focus on following trends in business voice, video and collaboration landscape along with emerging technologies.

Director of Sales

Jul 2012 – Aug 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Strategic UC&C Development Manager

Mar 2012 – Jul 2012 · 4 mos

Assist enterprise customers in identifying and selecting compatible devices to help them improve and enhance their voice & video communications and collaboration.
Provide product & sales training to sales force.
Operate in conjunction with UC platform providers, System Integrators and UC device manufacturers on closing UC opportunities. Develop marketing strategies with our Partners to discover new UC opportunities.
Business Developement Group Manager

National Sales Manager

Jan 2007 – Mar 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Manage Sales Team of 20+ Sales Reps, Branch Reps, Contract Accounts and Govt Dept. Work with company owners, Staff (VP's), Director of Sales to achieve company sales and profit quotas. Specialize in endpoints/devices for Unified Communications platforms from Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya and IBM. The devices being: headsets, telephones, audio and video conferencing endpoints.

Account Executive

Promoted

Feb 2000 – Jan 2007 · 6 yrs 11 mos

Cultivated Customer Database from new and existing accounts that generated $2M annually.
Did a lot of cold-calling, sent email blasts, and worked a lot with our partners (Plantronics, Jabra, Sennheiser, VXi, Polycom, ClearOne, SciTec, Teledex, Telematrix, etc) to identify opportunities and close sales.
Met and Exceeded Sales/Profit Quotas monthly and annually
Kept up to date with all the latest products/services plus maintained knowledge of legacy and discontinued products.

Shipping/Receiving Clerk

Feb 1999 – Feb 2000 · 1 yr

Received, Stocked inventory. Performed Monthly manual inventory. Picked, packed, QC'd, manifested customer orders.

Hello direct

Senior Director of Marketing and Emerging Technology

May 2019 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos

The Hello Direct, Inc. and Call One, Inc. marketing teams help SMBs make more informed purchasing decisions when it comes to audio and video solutions for personal and group use. We test multiple audio and video devices from leading, and less-established brands and share our results via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/calloneinc
One size does not fit all when it comes to communications technology and devices. We help business, and IT leaders identify the right technologies based on team members’ work styles and workspaces. How can we help? https://www.hellodirect.com/

Us army

Medical Laboratory Specialist

Sep 1992 – Feb 1999 · 6 yrs 5 mos

I was stationed mainly in Ft Sill, OK with the 47th Combat Support Battalion, 47th Field Hospital. Deployed twice to Egypt. Special M4 Identifier in Blood Banking. Earned Driving Badge, Sharpshooter Badge, and prestigious Expert Field Medical Badge. Last duty station was Ft. Bliss, TX with William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX.