Lee Somerhalder

Lee SomerhalderLee SomerhalderLee Somerhalder

Lee Somerhalder

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Two Decades in Digital Marketing

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Two Decades in Digital Marketing

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Past Experience

Digital Marketing from Day One

Education:

2001-2005 | Northern Arizona University | Marketing + eMarketing

2024 | Cornell University | Marketing AI

2024 | Google | Data Analytics Professional Certificate

~ INTEGRITY | RESPECT | FUN | TENACITY ~

Currently exploring new opportunities to help organizations scale their digital marketing performance by integrating brand, content, IT, data teams and cross-functional business units to quickly empower marketing teams to meet their short and long term goals. 

Digital Marketing Transformation Expert

One of our primary goals as a marketer is to tell valuable stories that provoke the desires and support the necessities of our prospects and customers.   


Global Marketing Executive with extensive experience influencing, developing, and governing impactful global marketing strategies that unlock multimillion-dollar business opportunities and position entities for sustainable growth. Recognized as a dynamic change agent who paves the way for advancement and an empathetic people-focused leader who guides, empowers, inspires, and champions high-capacity individuals into cross-collaborative teams motivated to operate and perform at the highest level. 


I offer 20 years of marketing experience building lean teams and scalable processes that propagate rapid sales growth and drive winning brand identity. As a servant leader, I quickly and efficiently mature teams by moving from a siloed, reactive, organization to a unified, customer-first, demand-generating marketing team. I add significant value as a brand and technology bridge between all functions of the business and my teams have succeeded by inspiring other leaders and partners to quickly modernize the buyer's journey and customer experience. Social media optimization, web experience and CRO, paid and organic media, data analytics storytelling, source attribution models, demand generation, email/SMS and compliance/governance have been a few focal areas of my work. 


  • Brand Strategy, Storytelling and Marketing Team Development
  • Enterprise Marketing Transformations
  • Marketing Technology, Automation, Integration and Personalization
  • Data Analytics, Forecasting and Visualization Strategy
  • Social Media, Demand Generation, Web Experience and Paid Media Strategy
  • Email, CRM, ABM and Data Enrichment

Expertise

Focus Areas

career Journey

able tones non profit ~ Jan 24 - present

Founder

 

We empower children by teaching them how to leverage generative AI, LLMs, and innovative technology, such as speech-to-text, to develop, compose, and publish unique digital music creations. By hosting six weekly sessions, one hour each for small groups of children, we will inspire them to harness these cutting-edge technologies and give them the tools to contribute more to the world. To generate revenue, along with traditional fundraising, we will create an online platform where these one-of-a-kind music creations are published and sold, with all proceeds benefiting Able Tones and other charitable causes.

Key Accomplishments

Gained 501(C)3 status


Established prominent board of directors


Fundraising for POC

Leadcoverage ~ Nov 22 - Jan 23

Vice President, Demand Generation

Serve as an integral member of the executive leadership team, driving strategy, growth, innovation, and performance optimization across all platforms.

▪ Led a team of 20 marketing professionals aimed at capturing new business through multichannel marketing campaigns.
▪ Positioned the organization for exponential growth, increasing ARR by $2.3M in 12 months and raising the minimum monthly retainer across all clients.
▪ Achieved a 65% reduction in GTM time within six months and streamlined operational processes, including the integration of 6Sense to Marketo to SFDC.
▪ Transformed the demand generation department, expanding and building a high-capacity team that drove success.

Key Accomplishments

Hired six account managers in 12 months


Supported Berkshire Hathaway and other >$1B Enterprise companies


Implemented eight instances of HubSpot and integrated with SFDC


References: 

Iris Moody - Sr Dir Marketing

Victoria Knotts - Sr Dir Digital Marketing

NTG Freight + Transportation Insight ~ Jan 22 - aug 22

Vice President, Digital Marketing

Led the expansion footprint for the newly merged TI Hold Co. organization, consolidating CRM, paid media, social, analytics, and web experiences into one highly effective operational solution and brand. Provided strategic thought leadership on operational initiatives, strengthened stakeholder engagement, and sharpened marketing tactics.


▪ Catapulted growth, expanding web traffic by 123%+, achieving a 10X boost in paid media activations, driving a 20% jump in social engagement, and increasing email open rates by 50%.

▪ Improved the organization’s capacity by designing, building, and developing tiholdco.com, ntgfreight.com, and transportationinsight.com.

▪ Unlocked a pipeline of leads by achieving 33M hyper-targeted impressions in three months, increasing marketing sourced opportunities by 30%, and boosting ROAs by 130% throughout a twelve-month period.

Key Accomplishments

Centralized and migrated six company's CRMs into one singular SFDC instance


Developed and launched an integrated digital marketing strategy for the newly created TI Hold Co.


Hired and trained a team of five digital marketing and content specialists


References: 

Erin Dedrickson - Sr Project Manager

Tren Hopkins - Sr Dir Customer Experience

Yamaha Motorsports ~ Apr 19 - Jan 22

Digital Marketing & Strategy Manager

Managed and redeveloped the digital landscape and content in US and Canada for 16 independent web assets, dealer portals, asset libraries and events registration sites for personalized mobile experiences of the longest continually manufactured motorcycle brand in the world. 


  • Owned the development, content, technical architecture and launch strategy for the first Triumph Certified Pre-Owned motorcycle program 
  • Optimized $2.3M/yr. (Americas) in dynamic Programmatic, Social and Search activations based on dealer inventory and quarterly promotions 
  • Developed the bulk of Triumph’s Marketing funnel analytics, lead projection models, user tracking methods and performance dashboards 
  • Rebuilt and launched four ecommerce sites to include 183 customizable Dealer Pages 
  • Successfully executed 180+ Triumph experience launch events in 2016, 2017 and 2018 to showcase our new bikes. Bonneville Back in Black, Reborn, and Icons tours 

Key Accomplishments

Developed the first Online Deposit process for used Triumph motorcycles from a factory website 


Launched 300 location Programmatic ad delivery for two years and $10M in dynamic media


Increased eCommerce revenue by 58% YOY


References: 

Daniel Linkous - Project/Research Mgr

Jon Tomsche - Division Mgr - Yamalube

Dive Deeper

Triumph Motorcycles ~ Mar 16 - Apr 19

Marketing Director

Managed and redeveloped the digital landscape and content in US and Canada for 16 independent web assets, dealer portals, asset libraries and events registration sites for personalized mobile experiences of the longest continually manufactured motorcycle brand in the world. 


  • Owned the development, content, technical architecture and launch strategy for the first Triumph Certified Pre-Owned motorcycle program 
  • Optimized $2.3M/yr. (Americas) in dynamic Programmatic, Social and Search activations based on dealer inventory and quarterly promotions 
  • Developed the bulk of Triumph’s Marketing funnel analytics, lead projection models, user tracking methods and performance dashboards 
  • Rebuilt and launched four ecommerce sites to include 183 customizable Dealer Pages 
  • Successfully executed 180+ Triumph experience launch events in 2016, 2017 and 2018 to showcase our new bikes. Bonneville Back in Black, Reborn, and Icons tours 

Key Accomplishments

Developed the first Online Deposit process for used Triumph motorcycles from a factory website 


Launched 300 location Programmatic ad delivery for two years and $10M in dynamic media


Increased eCommerce revenue by 58% YOY


References: 

Brandon Keller - COO

Shawn Sundheim - National Sales Mgr

Dive Deeper

WP Engine & Springbot ~ Feb 15 - Mar 16

Digital Marketing Manager

Set the Marketing foundation for hyper-growth in very fast-moving start-ups. 

WP ENGINE & SPRINGBOT. 


  • Built and implemented two nurture email campaigns that, after 1000 participants, are still seeing 50% open rates and 65% CTR 
  • Doubled the Marketable database and increased site traffic by 30% 
  • Deployed LinkedIn advertising model that drove 10% engagement lift on content at below $6 CPC
  • Integrated SFDC, HubSpot, Tract billing, MySQL, Unbounce, Google Analytics, GoToWebinar and other Social platforms to improve existing relationships and build new ones  
  • Deployed Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) model for marketing effectiveness 
  • Deployed LinkedIn advertising model that drove 10% engagement lift on content at below $6 CPC 
  • Developed HTML templates for event management marketing, social engagement, email marketing, and internal marketing operations 
  • Deployed and trained teams on Jira/Atlassian/Confluence tools 
  • Lead data-quality projects in SFDC and HubSpot using CRMFusion 

Key Accomplishments

Implemented  lead to revenue process, including MQLs, re-engagement processes, integration audits and optimizations, and sales training


Developed SLA definition and infraction strategy with sales organization


Implemented successful lead scoring model that increased lead gen by 20%


References: 

Chris Turnley - CRO

Hong Nga Nguyen - Partner Marketing

OutSystems ~ Jan 14 - Feb 15

Marketing Automation & Operations Manager

Marketo expert, proven SFDC admin, SEO/SEM, Marketing Operations expert in the B2B technology space globally. The OutSystems modern application platform’s high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers rapidly build and deploy a full range of applications anywhere the organization requires. With a growing base of active customers, strategic partners, and technology alliances across 87 countries and 22 industries, OutSystems is helping organizations make a strategic difference in their business through modern software development.


  • Deployed global demand generation program in Marketo. Proving over 100% improvement in conversion rate in less than six months in APAC 
  • Developed, manage, and optimize SFDC, Marketo and other system integrations, global lead routing and database inactivity campaigns
  • Experienced in Email Preference Center design and strategy 
  • Developed, interpreted and delivered actionable and mobile analytics, by territory, from a multitude of data sources on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual bases 
  • Deployed GDPR, CASL, CAN-SPAM, EU Directive, & Spam Act 2003 (Australia) safeguards in Marketo to protect our email IP reputation and deliverability control 

Key Accomplishments

Migrated from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Marketo for global marketing teams


Developed and Launched advanced lead scoring model


Integrated web experience, product teams, analytics, and marketing content into a cross-functional and agile workflow team


Developed a global COE for marketing automation based in Lisbon Portugal


References: 

David Holmes - CMO

Heather Pritchett - Dir. Customer Voice

Sean Allen - VP Prod. Marketing

Tekstream solutions ~ Jan 12 - Jan 14

Marketing Manager

Passion, Honesty, Focus, Growth, and Family. As trusted and knowledgeable pacesetters, my team brought years of management and hands-on experience supporting digital marketing solutions to industry-leading IT consulting/staffing firms and software companies. The digital team is focused on achieving sustained growth through a relentless drive for success.

 

  • Achieved 300% increase in pipeline opportunities and helped move the company to 400% revenue growth annually 
  • Administered Salesforce, Silverpop, Google AdWords, and Social communication channels ensuring optimal lead scoring, sourcing and routing from web forms, landing pages, and online referrals 
  • Improved website traffic 110% YOY while lead quality and quantity increased 
  • Managed two OpenWorld, two IOUG Collaborate, and one Dreamforce conference, along with dozens of Oracle marketing and private events 
  • Exhibited success in marketing automation, lead scoring, persona design, direct marketing, public relations (Forrester, Gartner, Frost & Sullivan), mobile monetization strategies, SEM, content writing and financial management 

Key Accomplishments

Launched the company's social channels

Developed sales content strategy

Launched SFDC and Silverpop


Silverpop User Group Champion

Silverpop (now IBM) Marketing Automation Certification, March 2012 Silverpop Ambassador Program, 2013 (Personas in lead scoring models)

Salesforce Administrator, October 2012

Oracle WebCenter Certification, June 2012

Oracle WebCenter Content Certification, June 2012 


References: 

Judd Robins - EVP

Robert Jansen - CEO

Industry Milestones

  • AI for Competitive Intelligence in Demand Generation Adobe presentation - 2023
  • Keynote Speaker - CX Summit Chicago 2022
  • Awarded Yamaha’s 2021 World’s Best Implementation Case – Lead Nurture Model (out of 17 subsidiaries)
  • Speaker at Atlanta Digital Summit 2019
  • Hosted three sessions at the 2017 Digital Marketing World Forum, NYC
  • Presented with Nissan and Cox Automotive at the Atlanta Digital Summit 2016, Future of Mobile
  • Spoke for 2,000 attendees at a LinkedIn conference 2015 in NYC about how to create and distribute content marketing
  • Nominated for the 2013 Technology Association of Georgia Tech Marketing Award — Integrate Marketer of the Year
  • Marketing automation expert by trade. Marketo, Salesforce, HubSpot and Pardot expertise
  • Hand selected to participate in DLA Piper’s “Venture Pipeline” accelerator, 2010
  • Start-up accepted into the University of Texas Austin Technical Incubator, 2009 (http://ati.utexas.edu/)
  • Green Belt Six Sigma, December 2009 

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