David is a versatile and passionate leader focused on driving start-up and early stage company success. Through the all-hands-on-deck nature of start-ups and growth companies he has experience in Investment Banking, Sales, New Business Development, Management, Human Resources/Recruiting, Social Media Branding & Marketing, SaaS, Vendor Selection and Venture Capital Consulting.
David has completed Executive Masters of Business Administration coursework including Managing Strategic Human Resources, Business Analytical Tools for Managerial Decisions and Business Law, Ethics and Communications at Bowling Green State University, currently on hiatus.
Specialties: Consulting, Verbal & Written Executive Communication, Learning & Development Creation, Public Speaking, Social Media (Web 2.0) Business Development, SaaS, Sales Development Management, New Business Development, Hunting, Cold Calling, Inside Sales, Outside Sales, Proposal Development, Salesforce.com, CRM tools, Recruiting & Business Development via LinkedIn, InMail, LinkedIn Recruiter Certified Expert, Facebook, Twitter & Youtube Social Media Sales & Marketing, Certified Facebook Developer, SEO Platform, SEO Strategy, Social SEO, Creating SEO Friendly Content
Director of Sales @ Hired as the first Sales Director for InteractiveH20. tasked with developing the sales team here in Chicago (http://www.interactiveh2o.com).
InteractiveH2O was founded as a Pay Per Click marketing firm focused on integrating client data including inventory, profit margins, and product pricing to drive real-time account updates. We believe the next frontier in digital marketing is the complete integration of client data as the real-time programmatic driver of digital advertising efficiency.
Clients have experienced unparalleled lifts in efficiency when working with our strategy team to remove the divide between business intelligence and hourly advertising changes. Our strategy teams learn about your business in ways never seen before to allow paid search to work as not only a revenue driver but also as an extension of supply chain management control to product pricing decisions.
We have grown to manage over 30 clients including global brand leaders in their category. The accounts we manage represent over 20 industries from major pharmaceutical brands to E-commerce.
We're hiring! Please message me as we look to grow the Sales Team in 2016. From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Consultant @ Advise on recruitment strategy and activities, facilitate introductions to place candidates with top-tier companies throughout the United States. From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Greater Chicago AreaConsultant @ Council member for GLG Research. Provides on-demand expertise and consulting for VC Firms, start-ups and other organizations. From January 2013 to Present (3 years) Greater Chicago AreaAdvisor @ Guidepoint Global is a primary research firm that provides on-demand access to a global network of experts. Guidepoint's Clients include some of the world’s leading Corporations, Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms, Consulting Firms and Asset Management Firms. Adhere to internal Google policies, please no outreach on Google or Google companies. From September 2011 to Present (4 years 4 months) United StatesSocial Media, General Management Advisor @ ATMG is unique, in that we are the only technology oriented consulting company that serves multiple industries such as Chemical, Appliance, Automotive (and suppliers), Textile and others, and works in concert with users and integrators. From August 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Sales Manager @ David served as a Sales Manager for Tangiblee, charged with all facets of Sales reporting to the CEO. Additional responsibilities included assisting with creating the sales process, cadence, reporting metrics, scripting, marketing/branding and vendor/tool selection.
In this role David brought on the first US based retailer, a Top 10 Global eCommerce site and Top 5 Global eCommerce Jeweler among others.
Tangiblee enables online retailers to provide a realistic shopping experience for any product, leading to higher conversion, fewer returns and happier customers. Early clients include Bellroy, Shop Direct and Luggage.com with several pilots for large global companies underway.
Tangiblee is a Techstars backed company, part of the 1871 Innovation Lab in Chicago, IL. For more information visit Tangiblee.com. From December 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 1 month) Social Media Sales Consultant @ David was hired as the 1st dedicated Social Sales Executive in the Chicago Office. Primarily working with large agencies he will be also be working extensively with Partners (such as Facebook) to continue Kenshoo's tradition of continuous platform improvements.
Kenshoo is a digital marketing technology company that engineers premium solutions for search marketing, social media marketing and online advertising. Named “The only leader” in bid management software by Forrester Research, Kenshoo empowers brands, agencies and developers to direct more than $25 billion in annual client sales revenue.
Through Kenshoo Social, marketers can develop integrated social media campaigns to achieve brand building and performance marketing goals specifically in Paid Media while also connecting across Owned and Earned Media as an exclusive sPMD. From March 2014 to October 2014 (8 months) Account Executive @ Individual Contributions:
-Top 20 Account Executive in terms of goal attainment 2012
-Highest % of goal attainment to date from my start class (April 2012)
-100%+ Q4 2012 Goal (1 of 2 Midwest Reps)
-300%+ Q1 2013 Facebook Advertising Quota Attainment
-Provided Sales Associate coaching on Sales Process, Tonality, LinkedIn & Sales Best Practices
-Closed $130,000+ during Q4 in new business via LinkedIn Social Selling and personal networking
Company Details:
Wildfire offers marketing solutions across Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Google + and light integration with Pinterest, Spotify and Instagram. We enable B2B and B2C companies to drive revenue and lead engagement via Wildfire's solutions platform including Page Management, Messaging, Content Development, Analytic Integration and Campaign Activities.
For Wildfire David served as an Account Executive working with companies from Start-Up stages through $20+ Billion Market Cap. His main focus was to identify prospective clients, educate on new social media marketing best practices and help facilitate the use of Wildfire's Solutions including Messaging, Tab Creation, Promotions/Campaigns /Lead Generation, Ad Optimization and Analytic tools to measure fan growth, engagement and ROI.
David focused on several new verticals including: Financial, B2B, International (non-domestic) companies and all undefined markets & companies.
Wildfire was founded in 2008. On July 31st, 2012 Wildfire agreed to be acquired by Google while continuing to be the leader in Social Media Marketing as evidenced by 20,000+ customers, 350,000+ promotions completed across B2C and B2B. From March 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 3 months) Product Consultant, Enterprise Services @ As a member of the LinkedIn Enterprise Services and part of the new Recruitment Product Consulting team, my role was to educate clients on the value they can generate from their current LinkedIn Corporate Products via a thorough on-boarding process that includes training, consulting and regular product improvement communication.
As a Product Consultant I delivered group and individual user informational/training sessions about LinkedIn products, industry benchmarking and Social Media best-practices to large companies and organizations within the Central region. The focus was on bringing valuable, actionable insights back to the LinkedIn product team, client leadership and recruiter end-users while delivering best-in-class service.
In 2011 we took on additional responsibilities from Marketing Solutions and began creating LinkedIn Career Pages, in some instances we also created from scratch LinkedIn Company Pages.
During 2011 in the Central Region I also piloted a 2-month Hybrid RPC/Relationship Manager role where duties included being the primary contact for all new accounts in Central until Relationship Managers could be hired/trained and brought up to speed on the synergy of LinkedIn Recruitment Products including Employment Branding.
During this time I represented LinkedIn at multiple HR Summit's and speaking engagements including but not limited to: Abercrombie & Fitch, Deloitte (Chicago Strategy Consultants & DFW Alumni), Macy's and the Fraternal Communications Association From December 2010 to August 2011 (9 months) Enterprise Account Executive, Hiring Solutions @ During this time, I demonstrated the ROI of LinkedIn Hiring Solutions to executives and their teams at companies based in the state of Texas.Through use of LinkedIn Hiring Solutions, I partnered with HR teams to best leverage the passive candidate market in their talent acquisition needs. Industries with high-level and granular recruitment insight: Oil and Energy, Specialized Chemicals, IT, Financial Services, Government Agencies, Human Resource Consulting, Retail/Chain Operations, Packaging and Logistics (among others). Most recently had been focused on introducing and implementing LinkedIn Recruitment Media and Talent Advantage into organizations between 1,000 to 10,000+ employees.
As part of the original Chicago LinkedIn For Good team I helped to create the LinkedIn Nonprofit Best Practices found here: (http://learn.linkedin.com/nonprofits/) From October 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 3 months) Associate Sales Manager @ In this role, I helped staff, train and coach an office supporting 30+ Sales Development Associates in a regional office. During this time I developed and implemented a Sales Associates Learning Forum consisting of Survey, Benchmark, Analysis and Coaching/Training for the team to learn both internal and external best-practices centered on sales professional development.
Core responsibilities in role included supporting the Sales, Marketing, Advertising and Communications programs through leading a team of Sales Associates tasked with new business development and executive outreach. Granularly the role included strategic planning for employee engagement, retention, coaching, performance improvement plans, 2nd and 3rd round interviews and termination proceedings.
Additional leadership skills were gained by acting as one of the Manager representatives on the Chicago Office Leadership Team (C.O.L.T.) consisting of cross-function team leads and regional executive sponsorship. From April 2008 to February 2009 (11 months) Senior Associate @ During time as a Senior Associate, I continued work with the Customer Contact Council, Communications Executive Council and Business Leadership Forum (BLF). The BLF supported best-practice research and executive education for Presidents, GMs and CEOs at companies with $750 million in revenue or $500 million to $2 billion in P&L.
"Leader of the Pack" status was achieved during this time in 2008. From March 2008 to May 2008 (3 months) Associate @ As a Marketing Associate & then Sales Associate, I was charged with prospecting, cold calling, emailing and scheduling with senior-level executives. It was during this time that after a period of quota exceeding activity I was moved to Senior Associate. Additional stretch role responsibilities included the daily Delphi 2.0 (CRM) audit for 25-35 Sales Associates in Chicago and serving as the Sales Associate Representative on the Chicago Office Leadership Team (C.O.L.T) From April 2007 to April 2008 (1 year 1 month) Research Analyst @ In this role I qualified private companies to raise capital, sell their business, create a succession plan, commit to an IPO or engage in other financial transactions. Calling across the United States I averaged 300+ calls per day to prospects in all industries, gave professional developement presentations to peer Houlihan Smith Research Analysts and coached new RAs in content and scripting role play to ensure role success. From November 2006 to March 2007 (5 months)
Executive Masters Business Administration @ Bowling Green State University From 2011 to 2013 Bachelors, Business Administration @ Principia College From 2004 to 2006 Michigan State University From 1999 to 2004 Our Lady of the Lakes From 1996 to 1999 eCommerce Marketing @ Nanyang Technological University David O'Ryan is skilled in: Management Consulting, LinkedIn, Public Speaking, Business Strategy, LinkedIn Recruiter, Salesforce.com, Fundraising, Non-profits, Creative Writing, Cold Calling, Consultative Selling, Training & Development, New Business Development, SaaS, Employer Branding