Matt Davison

Marketing & Communications at SHI | Product | Brand | Demand Gen | GTM

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Strategic marketing executive with over 19 years of experience leading global teams in SaaS, hardware, security, channel, managed and professional services. Proven track record in scaling brand, marketing operations, driving demand, and fostering customer loyalty. Adept at aligning marketing strategies with business objectives to meet revenue growth and market differentiation. I’ve had the opportunity to be part of large and small companies, within ad agencies and corporate marketing teams. I have led Americas and Global marketing teams spanning Growth, eCommerce, Demand Generation, Field, Brand and Portfolio disciplines. I have launched products and managed brands. I straddle both sides of the strategy – data driven but creative and an executor comfortable with ambiguity. I’ve been fortunate to lead and develop senior marketers and early career individuals. I believe in moving fast, learning from your mistakes but never forgetting to celebrate the journey. Myers-Briggs: INTP Specialties: GTM, eCommerce, brand marketing, digital marketing, mar tech and operations, strategy and planning, alliance, channel and partner marketing, lead generation, product, content and field marketing.

Experience

  • SHI International Corp. ()
    • VP, Head of Marketing, GTM & Communications
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • VP, Strategic Marketing & GTM
      Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 · 4 mos

  • SoftwareOne (6 yrs)
    • Chief Marketing Officer | Head of Global Marketing
      Nov 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

      As the head of global marketing, I lead the worldwide marketing organization responsible for brand, product, digital, revenue and marketing technology, events, campaigns, content, creative, customer marketing and insights, external communications (PR, AR, social), and analytics. Responsible for integrating the marketing departments across the combined SoftwareOne and Crayon organizations, rearchitecting the marketing operating model and blueprint to drive efficiency, predictability and scalability. Leveraging AI and supporting data/tech stack to transform how marketing can drive revenue and awareness through an integrated CX.

    • Global VP, Growth and Revenue Marketing
      Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 · 10 mos

      Global oversight for revenue and demand generation, focused on campaigns and digital experiences that drive customer acquisition, retention and expansion objectives. Tight collaboration across global sales, GTM partners, and services/business units. Led a team of growth, lead generation and customer advocacy marketers focused on activating global demand, field, and partner marketing initiatives that leverage digital, ABM, and traditional marketing channels.

    • VP, North America Marketing & Communications
      2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs

      I led the North America Marketing and Communications team, responsible for driving a differentiated, driving demand across 3 routes to market: direct, indirect and channel, and setting the marketing strategy to increase awareness and differentiation. End-to-end ownership across campaign, ABM, field and event marketing, lead generation, whitespace-space account penetration, top account retention, and closed-loop ROI tracking.

  • Advisor at The Well Advertising, Inc.
    2017 - 2020 · 3 yrs

    Digital and demand focused omni channel marketing agency. Advised large IT, SaaS and Consumer brands on how to build predictable and scalable demand generation engines.

  • Lenovo ()
    • Head of Global Marketing - Digital & eCommerce
      2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

      Led Lenovo Data Center Group's WW digital marketing, demand center & eCommerce initiatives. Worked with killer global media and marketing agencies, responsible for driving digital revenue and growth, lifecycle and retention marketing while enabling our regional marketing teams with a seamless, integrated martech stack.

    • Head of Global Marketing - Brand, Strategy & Planning
      2017 - 2018 · 1 yr

      Directly responsible for global marketing strategy and planning, Nutanix alliance and eCommerce for Lenovo's Data Center Group.

  • Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director, Americas Marketing
      2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

      Led a rockstar team comprised of field, partner, solutions, programs and alliance marketers. Partnered with 100 of the largest and most innovative technology companies focused on optimizing IT, security, cloud and the physical data center. Employee of Forsythe Technology, Inc. prior to the acquisition by Sirius Computer Solutions in 2017.

    • Director, Demand Generation, Field and Partner Marketing
      2011 - 2015 · 4 yrs

      Responsible for partner, channel, field, digital and demand generation.