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Neil is an award-winning marketing and communications executive who has led global teams at a variety of IT, security and enterprise software firms – from Dow Jones Component and bellwether stock companies to small-caps and pre-IPO unicorns. He is an adviser for startups and has been a CMO for various companies.

Recently Neil served as CMO of Onit, a legal tech firm. He was CMO at Behavox, where he established the early-stage security startup’s marketing function. He led Worldwide Marketing at Apttus and was EVP & CMO at A10 Networks. Neil also served as Vice President of Marketing at Armor Defense, a secure managed cloud provider for HIPAA and PCI-based data protection.

Earlier in his career, Neil led marketing communications and PR teams at some of the world’s largest tech companies. He led teams for Cisco that provided market visibility for nearly two-thirds of the Dow Jones component’s business – its largest core units (routing, switching), biggest growth opportunities (data center, cloud, SDN), security, wireless, application networking, and Strategic Alliances. The media named Neil one of the tech industry’s top-15 PR pros, and he helped lead Cisco’s PR organization, which PRWeek acknowledged two years in a row as the profession’s best in-house team. Neil was the head of worldwide PR at bellwether chip maker Micron and led marketing communications at security firm Trend Micro.

With this experience, Neil established NextBound with a proven methodology that has produced several industry awards in branding, marketing, PR, and CEO communications. This framework is part of his commitment to help NextBound clients stand out. If you know his personal background, you know NextBound’s brand promise, which is fueled by his relentless drive to make you great.