Adam Stein

Adam Stein

Los Altos, California, United States
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Lead principal at APS Marketing, a company founded to provide product marketing as a…

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Experience

  • APS Marketing, Inc. Graphic

    APS Marketing, Inc.

    Silicon Valley

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    Palo Alto

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    Mountain View, CA

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    Sunnyvale, California

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    San Jose

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    Sunnyvale, CA

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    Alviso, California

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    Sunnyvale, California

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    Mountain View, CA and San Jose, CA

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    Boston, Silicon Valley

Education

  • Harvard University Graphic

    Harvard University

    Activities and Societies: Assistant Teaching Instructor and course content lead for Marketing for Executives

    Develop Marketing coursework, help lead course instruction and serve as course mentor for students including 1:1 writing discussions and career development.

  • Activities and Societies: Ski Team - Student Club Principal

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Everwise Graphic

    Executive Leadership Coach, Mentor

    Everwise

    - Present 9 years 2 months

    Education

    Executive Coach and Mentor helping tomorrow's leaders achieve amazing things today.
    https://www.geteverwise.com/
    https://www.geteverwise.com/women-in-leadership/mentorship-as-a-growth-strategy-one-international-tech-startups-approach/

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    Board Member, Silicon Valley YMCA

    YMCA of Silicon Valley

    - Present 31 years 3 months

    Children

    Association Board member of the YMCA of Silicon Valley, one of the largest nonprofits in the Silicon Valley, serving 150,000 youth through after school, summer and recreation programs and more than 50,000 members in our branch facilities. From Redwood City to Morgan Hill, the Y is for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. I support the Y to help replicate impact we had in building the YMCA Silicon Valley Association with E. Palo Alto Branch…

    Association Board member of the YMCA of Silicon Valley, one of the largest nonprofits in the Silicon Valley, serving 150,000 youth through after school, summer and recreation programs and more than 50,000 members in our branch facilities. From Redwood City to Morgan Hill, the Y is for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. I support the Y to help replicate impact we had in building the YMCA Silicon Valley Association with E. Palo Alto Branch development

    https://www.ymcasv.org/about/leadership

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    Board Of Advisors, IoT and Mobility

    nGage Events

    - 4 years 1 month

    Advisory Board member responsible for researching and presenting network security, IoT, big data, enterprise mobility and digital transformation strategies.

Publications

  • S2W Website Content Development

    S2W Media

    Great comedians like Robin Williams and George Carlin always knew their audience. True in B2B sales marketing as well, a thorough understanding of your buyer’s pain, need and how a product or service fills a #marketing #sales void is essential #salesenablement #buyerpersona #GTM #comedians

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-miss-robin-williams-george-carlin-know-your-audience-adam-stein/

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  • Product Camp Silicon Valley 2018: Achieving Success Through Partnership

    Santa Clara University

    ProductCampSV session led by Savita Kini discussing why market success of a product depends on the partnership of #productmanagement as GMs and #productmarketing as CMO of the product.

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  • Focus is your Friend: Episode 1

    Double-Forte

    Podcast contents:

    Why businesses must start by focusing on what their customers’ problems are
    How to hone in on an audience once you know what the problem is that you’re solving
    Testing through Product Messaging Documents
    Why your product/service doesn’t need to be perfect the first time
    Strategies Adam uses to reach his audience
    Information channels Adam recommends for people in the B2B space
    What Adam learned when putting an old product in new box failed badly
    Need…

    Podcast contents:

    Why businesses must start by focusing on what their customers’ problems are
    How to hone in on an audience once you know what the problem is that you’re solving
    Testing through Product Messaging Documents
    Why your product/service doesn’t need to be perfect the first time
    Strategies Adam uses to reach his audience
    Information channels Adam recommends for people in the B2B space
    What Adam learned when putting an old product in new box failed badly
    Need more money? Find more money!
    What Adam measures in a campaign to make sure he’s on track to deliver ROI
    What people can do today to improve their website programs
    How to blend the old and the new with online marketing

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  • Product Marketing And Satisfying Your Sales Team: A Podcast

    SaaS Insider

    How will you run a marketing department with 2 people and satisfy a sales team of 50 or more? What are 3 marketing categories you should know about? What goes into a Product Messaging Document (PMD), First Meeting Sales Presentation or Competitive Battlecard?

    In this week’s episode of SaaS Insider, Adam Stein, founder of APS Marketing, and the host Shira Abel discuss product marketing, solving problems for customers, and getting a sales team to buy in.

    Thanks Shira Abel for the…

    How will you run a marketing department with 2 people and satisfy a sales team of 50 or more? What are 3 marketing categories you should know about? What goes into a Product Messaging Document (PMD), First Meeting Sales Presentation or Competitive Battlecard?

    In this week’s episode of SaaS Insider, Adam Stein, founder of APS Marketing, and the host Shira Abel discuss product marketing, solving problems for customers, and getting a sales team to buy in.

    Thanks Shira Abel for the time and opportunity to share.

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  • Mobile Strategy Map: Enterprise Mobility Virtual Tourguide

    SAP

    Self-paced online guide for migrating through the beginnning, intermediate and expert tracks of your individual Enterprise Mobile Journey with SAP

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  • Survey & Webcast: SANS Institute Mobile Application Security

    SANS Institute

    Mobile apps and devices, often owned by employees, are increasingly being used for business processes. This survey gives an intimate view into what applications are most frequently accessed from mobile/BYOD, how these applications are being used, and how and where they’re being managed and secured.

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  • End to End Mobility Requirements Survey, Whitepaper and Webcast: IDC and SAP explore the 3rd Platform

    IDC

    A new IDC study states that we’re in the midst of a shift that takes place once every 20 - 25 years – introducing a new technology platform that will inspire growth and innovation for enterprises of all sizes. IDC calls it the 3rd Platform – built on mobile devices and apps, cloud services, mobile broadband networks, “Big Data,” analytics, and social technologies.

    Join us for a companion Webcast to hear IDC analyst Steve Drake share his insights on the 3rd Platform. He’ll be joined by…

    A new IDC study states that we’re in the midst of a shift that takes place once every 20 - 25 years – introducing a new technology platform that will inspire growth and innovation for enterprises of all sizes. IDC calls it the 3rd Platform – built on mobile devices and apps, cloud services, mobile broadband networks, “Big Data,” analytics, and social technologies.

    Join us for a companion Webcast to hear IDC analyst Steve Drake share his insights on the 3rd Platform. He’ll be joined by Adam Stein of SAP and Alexey Belozerov of PBS Coals for a discussion on comprehensive enterprise mobility requirements.

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  • Funnelomics Presentation: How to Build Sales & Marketing Automation into Your B2B Strategy

    Salescruch

    - How to best integrate your sales and marketing programs for measurable and repeatable results
    - What works in Enterprise B2B sales
    - How marketing accelerates sales efforts and ensures an actionable sales playbook is in place.

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  • SANS First Annual Mobile Security Survey: Whitepaper and Webcast

    SANS Institute

    What smart phones and tablet devices are accessing what enterprise resources? Who’s devices are these anyway? Are they secure?

    In this webcast, senior SANS instructor, Kevin Johnson, will answer these and other questions as he unveils the results of the first annual SANS Mobility survey. Joining Kevin will be representatives from Bradford Networks, H-P, and MobileIron to answer questions about the results, how to manage the BYOD risk, and compliance.

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  • Network World article: How does Mobile Device Managment (MDM) Work?

    Network World

    Enterprise Mobility involves a unique blend of security, device management and application provisioning. This paper describes how all three elements are managed in unison.

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  • Analyst Report: Making Smartphones Safe for Enterprise

    Rayno Report

    Analysis on the surge of startups trying to address the management of smartphones in enterprise networks, which is surely going to be a massive issue.

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  • Network World: Proposed sFlow IETF standard helps ease traffic burden

    Network World

    A new IETF draft standard, RFC 3176, addresses all these limitations to traditional traffic monitoring and forensic network analysis through network packet sampling. The informational RFC also is marketed under the name "sFlow" by the industry trade organization sflow.org.

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Projects

  • Clearedin - How Anti-phishing Works Animated Video

    - Present

    3 minute home page video for sales team to quickly explain how Clearedin Protects Against Phishing via Chat, Video, File Collaboration, and Email

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  • Efficient Technology Solutions GTM and Website

    - Present

    Efficient Technology Solutions (ETS) offers enterprise customers a 20+ year proven track record of providing traditional LAN campus networking solutions. Businesses spend billions of dollars annually for these services and many overpay. ETS hired APS Marketing to revamp its GTM message and build a companion website for prospective clients and leading technology partners including Arista, Fortinet, Extreme Networks and A10 Networks.

    The ETS team message centers around its ability to…

    Efficient Technology Solutions (ETS) offers enterprise customers a 20+ year proven track record of providing traditional LAN campus networking solutions. Businesses spend billions of dollars annually for these services and many overpay. ETS hired APS Marketing to revamp its GTM message and build a companion website for prospective clients and leading technology partners including Arista, Fortinet, Extreme Networks and A10 Networks.

    The ETS team message centers around its ability to offer businesses a 75% discount over public cloud services. Simply put, ETS helps the many businesses who are vastly overpaying for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. They accomplish customer time and cost savings through offering better bandwidth per dollar alongside far more network control and scalability.

    The ETS team offers businesses a hands-on partner with expertise in designing, operating, selling equipment and buildings data center points of presence (POPs) for Silicon Valley internet facing companies. These data center co-location POP’s are owned by clients. Currently, ETS operates POP’s in seven locations globally; San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Virginia, Amsterdam, Singapore and Iceland. These sites serve up content and software as a service offerings (SaaS) to well-known banking institutions, credit card companies and Tier 1 technology customers.

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  • KeyNexus GTM, Product Messaging and Website Buildout

    - Present

    There are thousands of new security startups, differentiating your approach is critical to company success. Solving a distinct and costly problem is even more important. Several years ago, KeyNexus realized the evolving security landscape fighting expensive data breaches in cloud, virtualization, SaaS and IoT domains would require a wholesale change. KeyNexus is using this market shift to revolutionize and advance standardization throughout the encryption key management and storage…

    There are thousands of new security startups, differentiating your approach is critical to company success. Solving a distinct and costly problem is even more important. Several years ago, KeyNexus realized the evolving security landscape fighting expensive data breaches in cloud, virtualization, SaaS and IoT domains would require a wholesale change. KeyNexus is using this market shift to revolutionize and advance standardization throughout the encryption key management and storage industry.

    This market change lead to APS Marketing working with the KeyNexus team to develop its GTM strategy, industry content and website describing its Unified Key Management (UKM) encryption solution. UKM is uniquely suited to help customers consolidate their on-premise and cloud-based key management and storage needs.

    UKM helps enterprises leverage a single, central and standards-based key management server to support many different encryption and security use cases. This eliminates the need to support costly and time consuming multiple key management tools on-premise and in the cloud. UKM also dramatically simplifies the inherent complexity of the encryption key lifecycle.

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  • AetherPal GTM Strategy and Content: Scripted Sales Presentation, Solution Briefs, Partner Marketing Guide, Partner Comms and AetherPal.com buildout

    - Present

    Develop GTM messaging, write then publish AetherPal content to assist the Bus Dev/Partner Team with partner recruitment and channel enablement. Collaborate to refine the Mobile Support Management (MSM) message and growing marketspace. The team also conceived and implemented supporting business messaging around "downtime" and "scaling" business IT support resources. Finally, all GTM content was produced in a professional format usually seen in firms 10x size and at over 10x the cost.

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  • Mobile Market Portal

    Standalone Partner-facing Mobility Resource around the complete mobile lifecycle including Mobile Apps, Security, Development and related content. Site also offers full array of learning content for every stage of the mobile lifecycle inside of every business.

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  • Mobile Security SaaS Product Offering: SAP Mobile Secure

    Create and deliver a new SAP SaaS mobility product - the Best MAM/MDM in the cloud. Best MDM analytics. Best MAM app wrapping and MDM price at $3.33 combined per device per month including Business Objects Analytics Reporting and using Amazon Web Services EC2 Global Cloud

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  • Gartner Webinar: Tackling the Risk of Corporate Content on Mobile Devices

    Employees are consumers. They bring their personal devices to work - and increasingly they bring their personal apps too. Many consumer apps may appear to enhance productivity, but could be putting your critical corporate content at risk. Consumer mobile file sharing apps like DropBox and iCloud are great for users that want a simple way to share photos and videos -- but they should never be used to share enterprise information.

    What every security-conscious company needs is the ability…

    Employees are consumers. They bring their personal devices to work - and increasingly they bring their personal apps too. Many consumer apps may appear to enhance productivity, but could be putting your critical corporate content at risk. Consumer mobile file sharing apps like DropBox and iCloud are great for users that want a simple way to share photos and videos -- but they should never be used to share enterprise information.

    What every security-conscious company needs is the ability for employees to easily access and collaborate on personal and corporate content without putting the company at risk. In this insightful session, brought to you by SAP, Research Vice President Guy Creese of featured analyst firm Gartner shares his research and experience along with valuable evaluation criteria to help you find the right solution to meet your secure mobile content needs.

    If you need expert advice on what to look for in a mobile content management solution then don’t miss this session. During this session we’ll explore:

    - The silent risks of allowing employees to manage content and documents on their own devices
    - Why it is important to provide employees with an alternative to consumer solutions
    - How IT can gain confidence that content is secure
    - How to empower employees with a safe and secure mobile content management solution

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  • Analyst & Partner Presentation: Enterprise Mobility as a Service, Is the World Ready for the Mobile Cloud?

    Mobile and cloud converge and intersect to provide opportunities for IT executives and solution providers alike. In this presentation, Gartner, SAP, VeliQ and Swisscom explore a number of plausible scenarios where your organization can benefit from developing a combined cloud and mobile strategy. Discussion includes customer deployment scenarios on how the cloud will guide you to a deeper understanding of the potential risks and gaps that can occur.

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  • Partner Webinar: Gartner Nexus of Forces with SAP, AT&T and Samsung

    Nexus of Mobility in Action – Cloud, Data and Mobility Trifecta Delivers Secure Productivity Gains
    On-Demand Webinar. Secure Enterprise Mobility for apps, content and devices including Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is a top concern for enterprises and their CIOs, according to recent research from lead analyst firm Gartner.

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  • Oracle - The Right SD-WAN

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    Thought-leadership content with leading analyst detailing business need for SD-WAN innovation. As digital transformation takes hold in enterprises, the network edge is where customer engagement and rich interactions are now happening, and where status-quo MPLS networks are no longer enough

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  • Customer Presentation: Best Practices for Mobile Apps in Financial Services

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    A Customer Conversation on Next Generation Mobile Apps Development and Secure Distribution. By attending this Modo Labs/MobileIron presentation you’ll hear first-hand advice and implementation best practices from a leading Financial Services firm on Enterprise App Development, Distribution Storefront, Mobile App Management and Mobile Device Management solution.

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  • Product Presentation: Android’s Enterprise Role in 2012

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    TMc, GigaOm Pro and MobileIron present “Android’s Enterprise Role in 2012” in which attendees are provided with detailed information about a series of new Android whitepapers and discussion around updates to MobileIron's new Android solution.

    Topics highlighted include:
    - Five steps to be mindful of when preparing your organization for the introduction of Android devices
    - How to enhance security within Android smartphones and tablets
    - The best Android devices to select which…

    TMc, GigaOm Pro and MobileIron present “Android’s Enterprise Role in 2012” in which attendees are provided with detailed information about a series of new Android whitepapers and discussion around updates to MobileIron's new Android solution.

    Topics highlighted include:
    - Five steps to be mindful of when preparing your organization for the introduction of Android devices
    - How to enhance security within Android smartphones and tablets
    - The best Android devices to select which will meet individual company and BYOD deployments requirements
    - What really needs to be done during the Android registration process

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  • Customer Video: Mobile IT in the Pharmaceutical Industry Helps Ensure Regulatory Compliant Drug Trials

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    Jay Smith, former Senior Communications Engineer at Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) details company use of MobileIron software across 43 countries and 86 offices for a secure mobility policy that facilitates BYOD and global helpdesk support for traveling executives.

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Honors & Awards

  • Revenue Performance Excellence - Most Impactful Use of Marketing Metrics

    Marketo

    The “Revvies” recognize customers who are creating dramatic business impact with their innovative uses of Marketo’s marketing automation and sales effectiveness software solutions.

Languages

  • IP

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Everwise

    Mentor

    - Present

    Everwise hand-selects a pool of executives from around the world who want to help mentor the next generation of business and social leaders. - Learn more at: http://go.geteverwise.com/m300#sthash.BMl7xk1R.dpuf https://www.geteverwise.com/women-in-leadership/mentorship-as-a-growth-strategy-one-international-tech-startups-approach/

  • YMCA Silicon Valley

    Board Member

    - Present

    Helped develop the East Palo Alto YMCA branch, active member for Silicon Valley YMCA Board

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