Ruth is passionate about ensuring companies make a positive impact on our world - ensuring that organisations focus their efforts on making the world better whilst also running profitable and sustainable businesses for the long term. She has over 25 years experience in marketing & digital transformation roles covering a number of different regions, roles and industries. She has spent the majority of her career in the technology industry and always looking for new ways that technology can have a positive impact on all our lives. She lives in London but has also lived and worked in APAC and knows that region very well. She has a Human Scientist degree from Oxford University, a Chartered Institute of Marketing diploma, and is also a Fellow of The Marketing Society. In her spare time she works advising a number of charities across conservation and the arts and is a huge dog lover.
Ruth Rowan
Jun 2015 — Present
Global CMO within the B2B technology sector. Happy to advise on marketing strategy, building high performance teams, bringing purpose to life, digital transformation, client advocacy, M&A and expanding into high growth markets.
About Me
Experience
Global CMO at Dimension Data (subsidiary of NTT)
Jun 2015 — Jul 2019
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Hong Kong, China
Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at BT
May 2011 — May 2015
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Hong Kong, China
UK Marketing Director at BT
Jan 2009 — May 2011
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Head of Global Proposition Marketing at BT
Mar 2007 — Jan 2009
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General Manager, CRM at BT
Jan 2005 — Jul 2007
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Marketing Director, EMEA at Siebel Systems
Jan 2000 — Jan 2005
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Operator can advise on
Marketing Strategies
Advising on how to building, execute, refine and assess your marketing strategy. Understanding your audiences, market conditions, strategic options, building a team, which technologies to leverage, understanding the data you have and what you need, and how to be more succesful
Technology Sector & B2B
Marketing strategies specifically for the technology sector, building propositions & content, product lifecycle marketing, ABM, client segmentation, buyer journeys, cross & upselling, international expansion (particularly in Europe & APAC).
Building high performance marketing teams
Particularly during rapid growth. What roles to invest in, in which order. Unleashing emerging talent through creating the right support network and learning culture. Setting goals, managing performance. Mentoring
M&A/Integration marketing plans
In 2018/2019 I led the marketing & communications program that integrated 31 businesses together to create the international division for NTT - 50,000 people, $11bn revenue across 73 countries. Happy to share the learnings on how we approached this, the timing of brand change, audience mapping, client engagement etc
APAC, Middle East & Africa
I lived and worked in APAC for 5+ years rapidly scaling BT's international business across APAC, Middle East & Africa. We opened new offices, launched new products, won new clients, hired 1000's of new team members across these exciting but complex countries. Happy to share the learnings about regulation, culture, team building etc.
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