Robin Daniels

Zensai

Working to elevate how people become more successful, happy, and fulfilled.

I lead:
- Product
- Marketing
- Pre-sales & Post-sales
- Category-creation

The company is growing at over 50% year over year, due to our award-winning Human Success Platform built for the Microsoft eco-system.

Chief Business Officer

byFounders

byFounders is an early stage venture fund actively investing in tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics. Made up of some of the region's most accomplished entrepreneurs (Zendesk, Unity, Skype, and more), the byFounders Collective invests in and supports the next generation of globally ambitious founders. I help byFounders portfolio companies with deal sourcing, go-to-market strategy, business development, and fundraising advice.

Founding Member & Advisor

Stage 2 Capital

The Go-To-Market Venture Capital Fund backed by elite GTM executives investing in and helping software companies scale sustainable revenue.

Limited Partner

Robin Daniels Inc.

Advisor, investor, and board member to a number of companies, including:

Beamery
N26
Uizard (acquired by Miro)
Singulate
Radious
Pult
Commsor
Cutover
Multiplier
ELO Health
Lative
Shouter
Doubble
Lighthouse (Formerly OTA Insights)
Rhombus Systems
Labster
Guide
Outfunnel
Synata

Advisor & Board Member & Investor

Sequoia Capital

Working with Sequoia on finding the next great founding teams.

Scout for Great Companies and Great Talent

Matterport

We took Matterport public on July 23rd, 2021. 

During my time at Matterport we saw:
- 500% subscriber growth
- IPO that 10x'ed the value of the company
- 2x revenue growth

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

WeWork

Led a global marketing team of ~400 people.

Key results include:
- Significant increase in lead quality which led to massive increases in revenue
- Activation of the community to share love for the brand
- Introduction of new products to the market

LinkedIn

Leader for the product, partner and transformation marketing teams for LinkedIn Talent Solutions.

This includes:
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- LinkedIn Jobs
- LinkedIn Talent Media
- LinkedIn Talent Insights
- Competitive and Market Intelligence
- Program and Innovation Management
- Evangelism
- Field Transformation and Enablement
- Partner Marketing

Global Head of Product, Partner, and Transformation Marketing

Help System Inc

I was CMO at VERA - Acquired by HelpSystems in December of 2020.

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), responsible for Marketing and Business Development. Ran sales + marketing as CRO for a year.

Responsible for:
- Marketing
- Business Development and Partnerships
- Strategic Growth Initiatives
- Fund-raising
- Company Culture

Chief Marketing Officer at Vera (CMO)

Synata

Acquired by Cisco in 2017.

Advisor to the CEO on GTM.

Advisor

Chief Business Officer @ Zensai #HumanSuccess & #AI | 3xCMO | 2.5xIPOs 😆 | Ex @Salesforce @WeWork @LinkedIn @Box @Matterport | LinkedIn Top Voice | Creator of Epic Teams | Dad | Runner | Made in Denmark 🇩🇰

I'm an experienced executive focused on growth, marketing, GTM, product innovation, and leadership development to deliver epic results through ground-breaking, fun, and highly differentiated activities, while empowering people and teams to do the best work of their lives. 

I'm Chief Business & Product Officer for Zensai (zensai.com).

Throughout my career I've held executive leadership roles in high growth companies of all sizes, including Matterport (IPO) WeWork (near IPO), Salesforce, LinkedIn, Box (IPO), Veritas, and Vera (acquired).

My areas of expertise include growth strategy, product innovation, marketing, product marketing communications and media, GTM strategies, org design, leadership development, innovation management, mergers & acquisitions, top-level leadership, category-creation, brand building, public speaking, and sales transformation.

Here's more about my life story and journey during the last two decades: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/roadmap-life-love-happiness-robin-daniels/

I spent over 20 years in the US and UK, but I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark and an avid runner and movie nerd.

Autodesk

Senior Product Manager, Onboard and Use Digital Customer Lifecycles

Senior Product Manager, Account Platform

Teal

Teal’s first product manager bringing to market community, content and tools for professional growth. Worked directly with founder and CEO to manifest an excellent customer experience in Teal’s digital platform and deliver impactful content. Deeply understood product market as a customer, developer, and eventually champion of company mission. Particular focus to user onboarding, activation, and long term product strategy.

Product Manager

Senior Technologist and Design Technology Product Manager serving WeWork’s enterprise product line, Powered by We. 
Functioned as a client facing technology lead on project delivery teams. Led bottom-up deployment of new technology for internal facing operations programs and emerging in-house data products.

Collaborated with functions across the company to identify product needs, pain points, and jobs to be done. Mobilized the Design Technology team engineers and designers and by setting context and direction for product development plans.

Aligned company stakeholders around common needs and best data practices to build trust and cut through competing objectives.

Developed and conducted holistic, self sustaining training programs to the design organization consisting of operations trainings in tandem with professional growth training, coding bootcamps, data literacy workshops, and intensive data culture programs.

Senior Design Technology Product Manager

Operated as internal technology and urban data consultant. Developed and deployed data driven analyses and tailored metrics in pre-design and early massing phases to facilitate transparency and communication.

Advocated this methodology firm wide. Project types ranged from large scale masterplans to supertall buildings. Responsible for managing computation focused work on multiple firm projects per day, in addition to research collaborations.

Communicated directly with firm project owners and clients to build alignment and identify product needs and design impactful solutions.

Computational Designer and Spatial Analytics Product Lead

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Developed pedagogy, syllabus, and technical material and instructed “Algorithms and Urbanisms”. an architecture course focused on the responsible production of data driven urban narratives and exposure of assumptive models operating in cities.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Columbia University School of Continuing Education

Taught and planned a studio of thirty students enrolled in the Columbia Univerity Summer Program for High School Students. Studio focused on green infrastructure and urbanization around the Hudson River Park. Co-instructed with Richard Plunz, Patrica Culligan, Maria-Paola Sutto, Serena Li, and Sabrina Barker.

Instructor

GSAPP Spatial Information Design Lab

Produced neuroscience based data visualizations and content for the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behaviour Institute at the Jerome L. Green Science Center, and designed responsive chandelier and robotic display for their associated lobby space at Columbia’s Manhattanville Campus.

Graduate Student Researcher

2013-2014 Teaching assistant for Architectural Drawing and Representation I, and II.
2014-2015, Teaching assistant for Advanced Visual Studies (Fall 2014), Teaching assistant for Architectural Drawing and Representation II (Spring 2015).

Teaching Assistant

CyArk

Member of CyArk's Production team developing and creating deliverable media for the heritage archive at CyArk.org from raw survey and laser scan data, and various other sources. Deliverable media included visualizations of laser scan data, organized cyclone databases, 3d mesh models, fabrication ready 3d models, virtual tours, spherical panorama, photogrammatrized photos, project videos, architectural drawings, and more.

Production Specialist

Volunteer Intern at CyArk.org assisting the organization with the production of deliverable media and processing of collected raw data.

Intern

Gensler

Product Manager with 6+ years of experience building technology solutions in Visual Studies, Urban Planning, Architecture, Workplace, and Career Growth industries. Now, building growth into the customer onboarding and post-purchase experience for Autodesk.  I believe that impactful products provide value while changing perspective and empowering users to create.

I build with code + no-code, and take immense joy in teaching others to do the same.

Ask me about my cover photo! And what I've got cooking in my tiny New York City studio apartment, check it out!: https://www.instagram.com/jandm.eats/

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