Sales of CAD software to midsize companies are growing 15%, while large-company sales are expanding at a piddling 5% a year, says Gearoid Smyth, global marketing director of PTC, a CAD maker formerly known as Parametric Technology.
Other hires from Google to Facebook include Ben Ling who is now director of platform product marketing and Ethan Beard, a former director of social media and now director of business development.
This topic was front and center of a conversation I had recently with Tom Herbst, Director of Marketing, Rums, for Diageo, a consumer goods company with a portfolio of world-famous drink brands, including Captain Morgan and Captain Morgan Black, the darker, bolder spiced version in the line-up of Diageo rums.
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Now she's a director of marketing and is teaching me a few things about event management technology.
Enforcing the rules is "sort of a crazy part of our business, " says Dan Christofferson, marketing director of Etsy rival Big Cartel, a website in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The teachers developed their own iBooks and lesson plans around literary classics like MacBeth, according to Mark Strobel, director of marketing for Providence eLearning, a spinoff of the school that is marketing the iBooks to other schools.
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He recently eliminated the job of marketing director, a role with a six-figure salary, and plans to double ad-word spending this year.
After Facebook, he became director of marketing at a software company, and then co-founded an outfit that facilitates payments for online games.
At this point they were living in Marina del Rey, and Rosen was working as director of marketing for a post-production firm in Santa Monica.
Six months before the match Sandro Rosell, who is now the president of Barcelona Football Club, the European champions, became a director of Ailanto, a sports-marketing firm in Rio de Janeiro set up shortly beforehand.
According to Russ Mitchell, director of sales and marketing, there has been a rise of interest in the last year from groups and planners wanting to brand the hotel.
Amanda Slavin, the 26-year-old director of marketing and events for a New York restaurant group, is used to getting skeptical looks when she pulls out her BlackBerry.
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Born in the small town of Liyang in Jiangsu province near Shanghai and with an undergrad degree from Tsinghua University, his smarts, enthusiasm and dedication helped him land him a job within a few weeks, as a marketing director of cloud computing startup Dao-Gene in Beijing.
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Ed DeRosa is director of marketing for Brisnet.com, which is a subsidiary of Churchill Downs, Incorporated, the company that offers the future wagers.
"His price is way-off what it was before the incident, " said David Schwab, vice president and managing director of Octagon First Call, a celebrity-marketing arm of Interpublic Group of Cos.
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So additional thank-yous are in order to, among others, Larry Schneider, director of sales and marketing at Zaner Group, who has a way of putting complex subjects in simple terms.
Craig Malloy, then a director of marketing, was convinced he could sell thousands of inexpensive systems, but he knew better than to try to change the minds of his superiors.
As Jim Cavedo, Senior Director of Consumer Marketing at ISC, describes it, data analysis is the cornerstone of a more intelligent marketing organization.
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But, with its A-list cast, its notable director, and a marketing budget that was bigger than the GDP of a few small countries, it still got a nod from Oscar.
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"This group is more responsive to the idea of earning points for purchases, " says Rick Ferguson, editorial director of Colloquy, a loyalty marketing research and consulting firm.
"The Vera Wang brand does not sell her personal love story nor her marriage, but the soul of a New Yorker dedicated to offering women a luxury lifestyle brand, " said Leis, who is also a former director of marketing for Saks Fifth Avenue New York.
Take a listen to this one-minute videoclip to hear Jim Cavedo, Senior Director of Consumer Marketing at ISC, explain how data drives IMM, ultimately creating a more intelligent marketing organization.
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Mary Ann Biddiscombe, Director of Marketing for Coca-Cola Recycling, echoes a similar theme when it comes to recycling bottles and cans at the track.
"About 70% of our online business comes through affiliates, " said Rebecca Matter, director of online marketing for American Writers and Artists, a Delray Beach, Fla.
Barths, Sabine Masseglia, Director of Sales, Marketing, and Communications, has a couple that has taken room 22, an ocean-view pool suite, every year at the same time since 1991.
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Sports Illustrated has already reported that Lewis is set to join ESPN as a football analyst, a move that does not surprise David Schwab, the managing director of Octagon First Call, a marketing agency.
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Wixted , director of marketing for La-Z-Boy, in a prepared statement yesterday.
It's a world far removed from the majors, where constant turnover is routine, as became clear when the Wild Things' director of marketing and communications, Christine Blaine, responded to a request for comment for this story.
James Davis, Director of Program and Marketing at Vanderkamp Center, sees it as a golden opportunity for not-for-profit organizations such as his that may have difficulty attracting volunteers on their own.
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"The assumption is going to be that, as an organization, you will already have your data in line, " said Jerry Schmits, a conference panelist and director of product marketing for expense-management consultancy Cadence Network.
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