Stephen Holden

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ABOUT STEPHEN HOLDEN

Stephen is a senior marketing professional with extensive B2B Marketing experience at blue chip and SME organisations in the software and technology industries.His key strengths are in strategic planning and revenue-driven marketing programmes. Areas of expertise include lead generation, new customer acquistion, sales & marketing planning, and customer loyalty programmes.Born in Solihull in the West Midlands, Stephen was a graduate in Modern History from the University of Wolverhampton. In 1997, he kicked off his career with a job in sales at DT Electronics, selling microchips. Here his interest in marketing was triggered, and halfway through his four-year stay at the firm he moved into a marketing role. Further marketing positions at software firms such as Popkin Software and Telelogic followed, the latter being bought by IBM during this time. Stephen remained with IBM until 2015, working across a number of marketing positions, which included marketing lead for Big Data & Analytics software. In this role he and his team won an IBM Global Excellence award. In 2015, he became head of marketing at Leicester-based Safe Computing, working with HR & background screening software, and in 2017 Stephen joined Ricoh UK. With the company, he has delivered marketing programmes firstly for the CIP division, and now oversees Office Print technology. Stephen is a massive Aston Villa supporter, and a keen guitar player that owns a Fender Stratocaster and a Gibson Les Paul. While at IBM, he once booked Prince Charles for a keynote speaking slot!