Dana Salman, Marketing - Contract

Dana Salman

Marketing - Contract

SEMP

Location
Canada - Toronto
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business And Marketing
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Marketing - Contract at SEMP
  • Canada - Toronto
  • My current job since October 2023

• Successfully led and managed marketing team to create company brand, messaging, thought leadership content, brochures, whitepapers, website and social media content and campaigns to showcase SEMP consulting services and SEMPx infrastructure project management software.
• Collaborated with product and sales teams to develop and optimize thought leadership content. Built and expanded membership partner relationships to enhance brand awareness in the infrastructure market.

Freelance Marketing Advisor at Freelance
  • Canada - Toronto
  • My current job since April 2018

• Advising Kinnd Platform with development of Marketing strategy and product marketing, brand awareness and media outreach.

Head of Demand Generation at Tyk
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2022 to January 2023

• Managed a team of three Regional Marketing Managers and two agencies to launch, track and optimize campaigns and achieve pipeline value targets.
• Built Demand Gen-focused, multi-channel, ABM marketing campaigns for identified ideal customer profile to enhance brand awareness and drive SQLs, deals, pipeline value, and revenue.
• Managed launch of thought leadership channels including podcast and LinkedIn Ambassador program across the organization.
• Collaborated with the Product Marketing and content teams to optimize messaging and promote content for targeted keywords or phrases in order to increase MQL/SQLs generated from our core campaigns.

Director of Growth Marketing at Notable
  • United States - East Los Angeles
  • May 2021 to February 2022

• Advising enterprise B2B clients on Marketing strategy, branding and core values, product/service marketing, website strategy, target market identification, social media strategy, and Account Based Marketing.
• Managing all client-facing delivery assets and projects that exceed client expectations.

Marketing Director at Payfirma
  • Canada - Toronto
  • December 2018 to February 2021

First Marketing hire and grew the Marketing team to 3 (writer, designer, and developer) to build the Merrco and Payfirma brands and assets, support sales team, generate leads, increase customer acquisition and revenue, acquire channel partners and support expansion strategy.
• Worked with leadership, product and sales teams to create marketing and communication strategies to develop brand and product story, spread brand awareness and generate demand.
• Enhanced brand awareness through press releases, event participation, speaking engagements for company CEO and award nominations.
• Built collateral library to support sales and company needs including product brochures, partner brochures, presentation decks, landing pages, RFP proposal templates, customer and partner video testimonials to support sales and partners.
• Developed and optimized web copy (SEO) to differentiate offering for customers, partners and prospects, growing website visitors by an average of 60%.
• Launched Merrco blog and social media channels to position Merrco as a subject matter expert in cannabis payments, growing channels an average of 135%.
• Developed and launched digital (Google, banner and LinkedIn ads, landing pages, conversion rate optimization) and direct mail (Account Based Marketing) campaigns to generate demand, drive sales pipeline and grow revenue, accounting for 40% of total revenue.
• Worked with operations team to enhance Pardot/Salesforce automation to inform decision-making with a data-driven approach.
• Consolidated marketing resources (freelancers and agencies) to reduce department costs and improve quality of deliverables.

Marketing Programs Manager (Demand Generation and ABM) at Nulogy
  • Canada - Toronto
  • April 2017 to April 2018

Planning and implementing highly targeted ABM programs that create meaningful engagements with prospects to generate demand, drive sales pipeline and grow revenue through relevant messaging and content, drip campaigns, events, and direct mail.
• Partnering with sales executives to understand target accounts challenges and create a target account ABM strategy, program and personalized assets. Programs generated new leads and re-engaged dormant house accounts to create sales opportunities valued at $380, 000.
• Creating education and nurture drip programs with progressive profiling to qualify, educate and re-engage leads and validate solution/prospect fit.

Marketing Manager at Cloudli
  • Canada - Montreal
  • November 2011 to April 2017

First Marketing hire and grew the Marketing team to 5 (writer, designer, coordinator and 2 developers) to build the Cloudli brand and assets, support sales team, generate leads, increase customer acquisition and revenue, and acquire channel partners.
• Created marketing and communication strategies for B2B and B2C VoIP product launches.
• Developed and launched digital campaigns (Google, banner and LinkedIn ads, landing pages, conversion rate optimization) generating over 4, 000 new users representing $108, 000 added annual revenue.
• Optimized web copy (SEO), responsive web design, user signup flow and interface and managed the design and development team to implement optimized signups and webpages to meet company KPI's.
• Developed Cloudli blog, social media and email newsletter strategy, managed and curated weekly email newsletter with tech and business articles for 5, 000 customers and partners with 34% open rate.
• Developed Cloudli University from specs to launch, an educational portal for over 450 Cloudli partners to learn about Cloudli services.

Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist at Starbucks - Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2006 to September 2011

Managed Starbucks Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility across 9 countries in the Middle East region focusing on youth empowerment, sustainability, and environmental conservation.
• Led the operations team to develop and implement 200 award-winning community projects across the Middle East in line with Starbucks international CSR focus.
• Developed and delivered presentations, training, proposals, and community outreach materials to senior management and store staff across the Middle East.
• Planned and executed an annual reforestation project as part of Starbucks’ environmental platform with partners, media, and customers resulting in 140, 000 square meters of replanted forest.
• Developed 13 issues of The Coffee Press Starbucks Quarterly Newsletter to highlight community successes in the region.

Marketing Communications Specialist at International Turnkey Systems Group
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2006 to June 2008

• Drafted web SEO copy, articles, press releases, IT product brochures, website content, e-newsletter and event collateral to increase brand awareness and engagement and grow customer base.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business And Marketing
  • at American University Of Beirut
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Marketing Strategy
B2B Marketing
Marketing
Demand Generation
Marketing Communications
ADVISING
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
CONVERSION RATE OPTIMIZATION
PRODUCT MARKETING
OPERATIONS
LEADERSHIP
PRESENTATIONS
PRESS RELEASES

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Languages

English
Native Speaker
Arabic
Native Speaker