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Location United States
Current Role(s): 
Senior Director, Partnerships and Alliances
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Professional Info

Companies Worked For
IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices
Industries Worked In: 
Technology

Personal Info

Other languages: 
English

On Drupal.org for 15 years 7 months

Bio: 

Technology and global channel marketing and sales expert, Reese Gautschi possesses an impressive track record of proven success in global account management, channel sales, marketing and consulting with leading technology businesses. He has held senior sales and marketing positions with Fortune 100 companies as well as executive sales & marketing positions in start-ups that have led to their successful IPO.

In 2001, he joined semiconductor and processor innovator, AMD, where he helped define their large enterprise partnering strategy, providing programmatic field marketing and business development support for AMD’s product teams, global sales regions and business partners.

As Program Director for IBM Personal Systems Group Channel Sales Operations team, Reese established, built and maximized the financial performance and operational capabilities of IBM to a worldwide partner ecosystem (over 110K business partners).

Over the last five years of his career, his global account management skills, channel partner program delivery and marketing consulting engagements have provided impressive results for both his employers and clients.

Reese was born in the Los Angeles area, the son of a program manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He attended Emerson College and Bryant University, and stretched his undergraduate studies by taking executive management graduate courses from the Harvard Business School during his tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation. A passionate singer/songwriter, he has performed with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra and has written/arranged music for some of today’s leading contemporary and Christian music artists.

Reese and his wife, Heather, love living in Austin, TX with his two stepdaughters, Kate and Meg. Reese’s son, David, is currently serving in the United States Army at Fort Huachuca, Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Specialties
Digital Strategy, Channel Sales, Channel Marketing, Channel Operations, domain and process expertise in technology solutions (complex hardware, software, services, SaaS, patent portfolio licensing). M&A. Global business development, regional and global channel development, competitive research and analysis, press and analyst relations, talent in attracting new global alliances and partnership models. Expert market management, B2B and B2C.

Areas of Expertise: 
Online Digital Strategy
Customer Experience
Customer insights and visibility to Digital transformation; impact of social media on Drupal properties.
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Chicago 2011

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