Keate Despain: VP of Marketing in Hillsboro
Keate Despain
VP of Marketing
Hillsboro | United States
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Phoseon Technology
VP of Marketing | 11/2017 - Current
• Responsible for all aspects of marketing, from product line offerings to corporate communications
• Drive harvesting and delivery of design wins through the sales funnel process for the industrial curing market, with revenue growth target of 15+% annually
• Lead the re-engagement with PRC sales team and channels to re-ignite sales with new Asia specific products and pricing models
• Manage a cross functional team of experts to penetrate solution level sales within new market segments bringing together a complex ecosystem of chemistry formulators and hardware catalytic enablement
Intel Corporation
Director of Sales, Comm. Service Provider Cloud/DC | 11/2015 - Current
• Carry and deliver the global consumption revenue target of $700M+ across Intel's diverse product lines sold into the Cloud and Datacenter segments of the Communication Service Provider market
• Develop Go-to-Market campaigns and marketing programs that deliver measurable results in new sales opportunities, portfolio expansion sales, and deeper customer relationships.
• Be the voice of the customer into the many different business units at Intel. Product lines covered include microprocessors, chipsets, memory, storage, and software. Responsible for developing a single voice back to the customer to ensure clarity and conciseness.
• Executive relationship management. Manage key topics, interactions, and visiting dignitaries to our corporate headquarters. Ensure timely topics, follow-up actions, and eventual sales occur from these collaborative, investment level meetings
• Network communications representative into the development of the Rack Scale Design initiative. Responsible to ensure the communication customers' needs were incorporated into the platform architecture and go-to-market activities
Radisys Corporation
VP/GM Platforms Business Unit | 10/2007 - 10/2015
• Own the P&L responsibility for the $200+ million annual revenue business unit in the high tech embedded and communications industry
• Formulate strategic plans that focused the Radisys Cloud Platform investments into key NFV workloads and product lines (hardware & software) that delivered higher margin growth opportunities via strategic partnerships
• Sales leadership through go-to-market plans for the platforms product line via the Radisys website, direct sales and other channels. Transitioned the ingredient selling model to more of a complete platforms selling approach
• Lead negotiator for many of our Tier 1 customers including Nokia, Philips Healthcare, and the Asia Pacific region, including supply chain partners Foxconn
Consumer Electronics Group
China Director of Operations | 11/2003 - 05/2006
• Developed and drove approval for the division MM$ expansion plans to establish a presence in China that effectively:
• Penetrated and serviced the APAC CE OEM customer base to increase annual sales from $10M to $50M over 2 years