Lesley Foster-Davis

Results-Driven Creative Senior Marketing Leader | SaaS | B2B

Bracknell, England, United Kingdom

About

A highly motivated and creative senior marketing leader, bringing 19 years of experience in the B2B IT, Software & Services industry. Passionate about delivering exceptional results and orchestrating seamless collaboration across sales, engineering, and marketing teams to create a cohesive, customer centric strategy. Strong organisational and planning capabilities, alongside the ability to work under pressure to meet targets even in challenging environments. A reliable and adaptable team player, with a proven track record of creating strong relationships that are highly referenceable. A rich background in enterprise marketing, with expertise in crafting and executing integrated marketing programs that bridge the gap between technology and business need. Focused and experienced in creating compelling and outcome-driven programs, extending to account-based marketing, vertical marketing initiatives, event strategy and management, digital campaigns, demand generation and sales acceleration programs. Specialises in Cybersecurity, Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud, Networking, and End User Computing.

Experience

  • Senior Field Marketing Manager, Northern Europe at Kong Inc.
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Senior Field Marketing Manager, UKI at Cohesity
    Apr 2024 - Dec 2024 · 9 mos

  • VMware (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Solutions Marketing, NEMEA
      Mar 2017 - Mar 2024 · 7 yrs 1 mo

    • Event Marketing, EMEA
      Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 · 10 mos

  • Avaya (7 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Field Marketing, UK & Ireland
      Sep 2013 - Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Field Marketing Manager
      Dec 2009 - Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Channel Marketing Manager at Nortel
    Jun 2007 - Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos