Ben’s work as the Founder at The Killswitch Collective, a 2 office, 35 employee Digital Marketing & Web Development Agency in Chicago, included almost a decade of serving clients like Viacom, Nike, and other fortune 100 companies. Killswitch was a pioneer with Ruby on Rails, having helped usher in Object Oriented web platforms.
2003 - Sold: 2011
The Killswitch Collective | Managing Director
My career has been influenced heavily by both the entrepreneurial and corporate landscape. I come from the world of startups, having successfully built, launched and sold businesses earlier in my career.
In the past decade I have excelled in global companies, executing cross functional marketing campaigns and pipeline growth strategies across worldwide markets. With a laser focus on building businesses in markets, both new and established, I have launched products, accelerated existing pipelines and led teams across a series of functions and a series of business sectors both in direct (B2C) and partner led (B2B) business models.
More recently, I led a marketing organization at OpenText, formerly Micro Focus. My team handled the Application Modernization (AMC) and Information Management & Governance (IMG) product portfolios for all of North America and International regions worldwide. With nearly $70M of pipeline across my two product groups, we owned the entire marketing function including all the corporate marketing campaigns, partner marketing campaigns, digital campaigns, sales enablement, and pipeline campaigns.
Most recently, I worked as Director of Marketing, and Director of Demand Generation at mid sized software and technology firms, building marketing and demand generation disciplines at those agencies as well as supporting Enterprise sales leaders and their teams.
