Craig Walden

Experience

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  BT

  Jan 1980 - Jan 1996

  Product Manager

  Various technical and product marketing roles in support of BT consumer products.

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  Inventec

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  Product Manager

  Responsible for launching and managing the whole life cycle of more than 20 OEM telephony products for BT in the UK. Liaising with Far Eastern development and manufacturing resources and managing our account with BT.

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  Knowles Electronics

  Mar 2000 - Oct 2002

  Product Marketing Manager EMEA

  Responsible for the product management and distribution of a portfolio of headset products including Bluetooth wireless headsets and call centre solutions into EMEA.

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  Crane Telecommunications

  Nov 2002 - Oct 2007

  Marketing Director

  Responsible for all product and channel marketing for business communications portfolios from LG, Mitel and Nortel.

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  Westcon

  Oct 2007 - Nov 2008

  Head of Product Marketing

  Heading up a team of 10 product managers, technical trainers and training administrator, responsible for the Westcon Convergence UK portfolio and training. This included Avaya, Nortel, Samsung, Juniper, Exteme, Packeteer and Trapeze converged solutions.

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  Big Beach Marketing

  Jul 2009 - Jun 2017

  Managing Director

  Big Beach Marketing is an experienced and dynamic marketing agency based in Brighton (Hove actually), with big picture ideas on how to resolve your marketing issues.Specialising in business to business marketing we have over 30 years combined experience in the telecoms industry and 8 years experience in the energy sector.We offer a complete range of outsourced marketing services from strategy and planning through to delivery of; website development, enhancement and optimisation, email marketing, creative collateral design, lead generation campaigns, event management, social media and just about anything in between. We provide outsourced marketing director services and cost effective solutions, tailored to your marketing needs and budget, with expertise in commercial partnership funding.Big Beach Marketing offers sales driven marketing that is focused on delivering real business benefits and return on marketing investment. Show less

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  Opus Telecoms

  Jun 2017 - Apr 2021

  Marketing Director

  Marketing Director for the Opus Group; Opus Telecoms, Opus Technology and Opus DigitalOpus is one of the largest and fastest growing independent managed communications providers in the UK working with best of breed partners such as Mitel, 8x8, Gamma, Exponential-e and Microsoft to design, develop, integrate, manage and optimise networked solutions which deliver business process change and return on investment. Solutions include:• Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions• Omni-Channel Customer Service Solutions• Effective Multi-Site, Multi-National Workforce Optimisation• Flexible and Secure Mobile and Remote Working Solution• Resilient Network Infrastructures and Data Storage, Backup and Connectivity Show less

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  Big Beach Marketing

  May 2021 - now

  Managing Director