Neil Hooper Email Address

Senior Marketing Manager, Customer Marketing

Plantronics and Polycom are now Poly, the global communications company that powers authentic human connection and collaboration.

Bringing products and solutions of which I can be proud to people who will benefit from selling or using them is what I love. When the lights go on in people's eyes, when they come away empowered and motivated, when a customer loves what you have done for them, that's why I get up each morning… (More traditionally stated, I am a B2B Marketing professional with broad knowledge of Product Marketing, Product Management, Field and Channel Marketing, Sales Enablement and End User / Partner Relationships in small, medium and global enterprises.) CAREER SUMMARY PLANTRONICS INC - 2008 to current Senior Marketing Manager, Senior Product Manager - Initial Contact Center focus extended to UC and all enterprise - Field Marketing - Global Accounts Marketing - Segment Strategy - Channel and Sales Enablement - Sales Tools - Product launches - Speaking, Networking, steady customer and channel exposure AVAYA INC - 2000 to 2008 Senior Marketing Manager, Channels, Strategic Partners, Solutions - Lenovo and IBM relationships for Unified Communications applications - Contact Center solutions marketing - Partner analysis & recommendations - Solution Migration Incentive programs LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES – 1998 - 2000 Director OEM and Global Accts, Senior Channel Enablement Manager: - SMB strategy core team - Web portal design team - Global tours evangelizing Unified Communications - Channel sales enablement - International selling process creation OCTEL COMMUNICATIONS – 1992 – 1998 - Director OEM and Global Accts, Prod Mgt Team Manager, European Marketing Mgr (’92-’95) PREVIOUS UK-based roles in sales and product marketing - Dual UK/US citizenship - UC Berkeley Extension guest lecturer in Marketing - Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Board Member, Instructor/Examiner - ACA-certified Open Coast Sea Kayak Instructor Specialties: Field Marketing, Strategic Partner Marketing, Product and Solutions Marketing. My skills are highly transferable: I do not consider myself limited to the technology