George Huis a graduate from Harvard University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His current role is Executive Vice President, Marketing, Applications & Education at Salesforce.com, located in San Francisco. The company was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive (and one of my direct LinkedIn connections) Marc Benioff - who revolutionized the traditional software market by launching the (then) new, Web-driven concept of ‘Software as a Service’.
In this episode, George discusses how the company deals with important issues such as Platform Scalability, Responsiveness to Customer needs & requests - and how it provides Transparency in the way it achieves this.
Dave Millman is an MIT graduate and former Director of Marketing at IBM. His present role is Vice President of Marketing at CiraNova, a software company located in San Francisco’s Bay Area in California, servicing the semiconductor industry.
He’s also an expert witness in software intellectual property & distribution agreement cases - and a regular listener of The Connections Show. (Scored big kudos with me straight away!)
Dave recently wrote to me, detailing a number of examples of successful business outcomes he’s achieved as a result of using LinkedIn.
Naturally, I invited him to come on The Connections Show and share them with us - so join us for a fascinating & stimulating discussion, as Dave outlines some of the creative and undocumented (but highly effective) strategies he’s been using to good effect.
Ron Bates is a Headhunter, Executive Search Consultant & Recruiter based in San Francisco, USA. He’s also widely known as LinkedIn’s most-connected user - with around 40,000 direct Connections. However, while Ron’s name is well-known to many people, he himself maintains a fairly low personal profile.
In this interview, we chat with LinkedIn’s ‘Man of Mystery’, as Ron reveals many details about himself, how he first became involved with LinkedIn, the time he spends each week maintaining and interacting with his network - and the business benefit he receives from having such a large number of connections.
For anyone that is curious about what being a LinkedIn ‘Power User’ is all about - this is is definitely the place to find out.
In the process, Dave has developed a powerful and distinctive online Personal Brand – and is a new (and fast-rising) entrant into the list of Top 50 most-connected LinkedIn users, posted at TopLinked.com.
In this interview, Dave discusses the elements of what it actually takes to reach this level of connectedness – and the resulting impact this has had on his personal and professional life.
David Moore is Director of Enterprise Engagements at Hewlett Packard in Sydney, Australia - and through the course of his career, has been involved in closing deals totaling in excess of $3 Billion.
Prior to joining HP, David had a long career at Deloitte Consulting, as Industry Leader in Energy, Telecommunications & Government, followed by responsibility for Systems Integration, Outsourcing & Consulting in Asia Pacific, Japan and South Africa.
This background prepared him well for his current role, leading HP’s large, complex service engagements for the top Corporate Enterprises and Government Agencies - with an average deal size of $200 - 500 Million.
In this episode, David shares a few of insights he’s gained through working on deals of this magnitude, together with some predictions on the impact of the Internet on the Enterprise.
'Connections' is a 20-minute weekly audio podcast on the Art of Business Networking.
The host of the show, Stan Relihan, is a leading Headhunter & Recruiter in Sydney Australia, specialising in IT, Telecommunications & Digital Media.
Each week, as one of LinkedIn's Top 50 most-connected 'Power Users', Stan interviews a different guest from his extensive network of connections to discuss how Web 2.0 applications and social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn can be used to deliver business benefit.
George Hu is a graduate from Harvard University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His current role is Executive Vice President, Marketing, Applications & Education at Salesforce.com, located in San Francisco. The company was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive (and one of my direct LinkedIn connections) Marc Benioff - who revolutionized the traditional software market by launching the (then) new, Web-driven concept of ‘Software as a Service’.
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David Moore is Director of Enterprise Engagements at 
