Days Of Futures Passed

A podcast with guests who share the grand visions of the future from history and science fiction that inspired them as children.

Host

Theo Priestley

Keynote speaker, fractional CxO, advisor, startup mentor, storyteller, technology evangelist, author, futurist, entrepreneur, gamer, cat slave, sci-fi aficionado.
 
For all speaker enquiries please visit: https://www.theopriestley.com

Keynote Speaker, Fractional CxO

HackerNoon

Winner - Most Read Stories of 2023
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2022
Nominated - Tech Storyteller of the Year 2022
Nominated - Contributor of the Year 2021

Contributing Writer

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A comprehensive history of tomorrow, exploring groundbreaking topics including Virtual Reality, AI, Privacy, Education, Economics and the Future of Work.

"The more people that read this, the better the quality of debate and planning going forward. If you have any interest in the shape of the future then this is a must-read!"
 
"This book is a fantastic collation of ideas, insights and analysis on what the future holds. It will challenge you and make you think about how your actions impact the future."

Order the book - now available through Bloomsbury directly, Amazon, Target, Waterstones, and many other international booksellers.

Author - The Future Starts Now

Metanomic

Raised venture capital to build a web3 and video game real-time analytics platform using AI. Led a fully remote, international team to deliver two products in rapid succession (one MVP, one full v1.0), built the client and partner pipeline before handing over to Sales.

Acquired in 2023.

FutureOn

Driving marketing, branding and PR for a unique cloud-based real-time visualization and collaboration platform – FieldTwin – helping Integrated Energy Companies make smarter and faster decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Vice President Marketing

We Didn't Start The Fire

A 13 episode podcast series that covered a multitude of business and technology trends leaving no stone unturned.

CSignum

Ownership of marketing, branding and PR for an offshore engineering company that manufactures patented wireless and cable-free data communications systems for the energy, environmental, transportation and aquaculture sectors.

Rebranded from WFS Technologies following a management buyout.

RawShark Studios

Bootstrapped game design studio working on web3 game projects.

Founder/ Head Of Studio

HTC Vive

Startup Mentor

Please note I no longer use LinkedIn on a regular basis. 
Visit theopriestley.com for contact details, or medium.com/@theo for articles.

The Angus & Pete Show

CoHost of The Angus & Pete Show

Cisco

EMEA CX Channel GTM Strategy&Planning

This was a self-directed, interim role reporting to EMEAR sales and pre-sales senior leadership team.

Brief:
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Work with the EMEAR sales specialist & pre-sales technical specialist community to:
- Identify and enable EU based service providers as channel partners.
- Enable and provide subject matter support to sales specialist teams
- Enable and provide specialist bid support to targeted channel partners
- Working with EMEAR stakeholder groups to create effective matrix teams focused on partner enablement for cloud contact centre product line.

Delivered:
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- Designed & led the roll-out of channel enablement programme for cloud contact centre across Nordics, France, Germany and Spain
- Led roll-out of specialist support for SP product development teams
- Working with internal stakeholder groups, established a new cross-functional team to support partner enablement across EU countries
- Established and led partner enablement team for a service provider product team based in India. Provided specialist product management support to partner product managers to accelerate product development. Internal product launch completed in less than 6 months from concept approval.
- 12 month prioritised pipeline of channel partners scheduled for on-boarding into cloud partner programme.

Cloud Contact Center Consultant EMEAR (interim)

BroadSoft

This was a self-directed, interim role reporting to the UK&I Regional VP.

Brief:
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Work with the UK internal sales & pre-sales technical specialist community to:
- Identify and enable UK based service providers as channel partners.
- Enable and provide subject matter expertise support to sales teams
- Enable and provide specialist bid support to targeted channel partners

This required working across different internal stakeholder groups to create effective matrix teams.

Delivered:
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- Pioneered new enablement capability to support service provider internal product/offer development processes.
- Developed and implemented a new process to speed up the delivery of specialist support for SP product development teams.
- New operating engagement model reduced partner stakeholder engagement effort from months to days.
- Working with many internal stakeholder groups, established a new cross-functional team to support partner enablement.
- Delivered new partner channels to respond to new sales opportunities and build pipeline.

Cloud Contact Center Consultant UK&I (interim)

Verizon

This was a short term role reporting to the Global Senior Product Manager for Contact Center. 

Brief:
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- lead a team of product managers in the US to deliver:
- draft business case
- product requirements and
- product proposition definition for a new cloud (SaaS) contact center product.
This required working across global stakeholders including sales management, product management, and engineering.

Delivered:
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- Agreed and supported business case for US and EMEA markets
- Complete product requirements for US and EMEA markets
- Complete operational requirements for entire product lifecycle
- Complete commercial and pricing requirements including draft pricing model

Product Management Consultant, Global Product & Services (interim)

Reporting to the EMEA MD, this fixed term role was to define the go To Market strategy for a new cloud contact centre product line. This required working across multiple stakeholders including global executive sales management, corporate product management, EMEA product marketing, product engineering and global support. 

Brief:
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- Development and delivery of the EMEA product go to market strategy, which was signed off by CEO, EMEA MD, EMEA Sales VP's and Contact Centre Head of Product Management.
- Deliver EMEA Channel acquisition and development strategy
- Develop sales support for all EMEA contact centre related activities

Delivered:
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- A high performing virtual team of sales and pre-sales consultants to support channel acquisition, channel development and sales opportunities
- New reseller and service provider channels in the UK, Germany, France and the Nordics
- Product  development and go to market plans with service providers in all new markets
- A robust pipeline of opportunities sufficient to deliver corporate revenue goals.

Director, Contact Centre Sales EMEA (interim)

Vodafone

Group Head of Product Management for IP Contact Centre (Cloud & On-Premise); Fixed and Mobile Media Recording (Cloud & On-Premise) product portfolio across the Vodafone Group Enterprise business.

Vodafone Group : Head of Customer Interaction Product Management

Interim contact centre portfolio lead product manager for Vodafone Group Enterprise

Vodafone Group: Senior Product Manager - Customer Interaction

Cable&Wireless Worldwide acquired by Vodafone
Product Management and Strategy lead for IP Contact Centre and related services.

Cable& Wireless Worldwide: Senior Product Manager 

Vialtus Solutions

Director, Portfolio and Vendor Management

Cogenta Systems

Director, Sales & Product Marketing

Harlyn Systems

Sales Manager; Product Marketing

I am a product management and channel sales leader with depth of experience in developing product offerings,go-to-market strategy and then executing. Equal parts product and sales strategy with a specialisation in building go-to-market channels, cloud products and the contact centre ecosystem.

My Specific Skills Matrix:

Product Management | Contact Centre | Cloud Migration | Transformation | Customer Experience | Telecoms | Service Provider | Go to market strategy | 

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