BrightTALK CEO and leadership

Paul Heald co-founded BrightTALK in 2002 to help organizations engage their customers through live, online events. As CEO, Heald has led BrightTALK to its current position as a leading provider of online events, with a rapidly growing community of business and industry professionals. Paul is based at BrightTALK’s U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Before founding BrightTALK, Heald was the European managing director of Scient, a web technology development company. Prior to Scient, he ran Arthur D. Little’s e-business consulting group. Heald is an MBA graduate of Cranfield School of Management (U.K.).

Passionate about making technology work for people.Currently focused on helping marketing professionals create and qualify high quality leads and campaigns.Designed to ensure people to focus on communicating and not underlying technology and systems.Specialties: AWS, Cloud, VoIP, Web, Application design, architecture, network infrastructure, embedded systems, data processing and analytics.Application Development: Proof of concept, Design, Distrubuted real time architecture, VoIP, Streaming Media, Open Source Software, Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and messaging.Streaming Media: RTMP, Real, Microsoft ASF and web based protocols.Web development and mobile application development.Experience of full project lifecycle, strategy, prototyping, development, test and deployment.Broad knowledge of IT - from Mainframe MVS, Vax, Dec through to z80 assembly, Raspberry Pi and discrete electronics.Building teams and solutions in line with business requirements and resources.Also enjoys, Raspberry Pi, Ham Radio, Quadcopter Flying and most things digital!Father of 3 based in Hampshire, UK

David has 15+ years experience growing businesses with innovative go-to-market strategies and has spent the last decade in the video/web collaboration technology market. He’s built teams of sales and marketing professionals that fuel predictable pipeline development and customer acquisition. David joined BrightTALK in 2008, after roles with ADP and WebEx, and continues to innovate their brand and growth strategies.

Peter joined BrightTALK in 2004. Throughout his time with the company Peter has lead the product development efforts to design and build a platform that helps professionals advance their careers and learn from the expertise of global thought leaders. Peter is an engineering graduate from Nottingham University and completed his post graduate at Cambridge University. Before joining BrightTALK he held positions in Accenture and the London Stock Exchange.

Results and roi focussed, board level media & business information professional with strong track record of commercial, strategic, brand development and leadership success. UK and International experience in two of the UK's most dynamic business-to-business organisations. Experience of business model adaption, digital revenue migration, P&L management, sales direction, product development, portfolio review, change management, international operations, paid content development, data & information services. and board level communications across all media channels.

Paul Heald co-founded BrightTALK in 2002 to help organizations engage their customers through live, online events. As CEO, Heald has led BrightTALK to its current position as a leading provider of online events, with a rapidly growing community of business and industry professionals. Paul is based at BrightTALK’s U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Before founding BrightTALK, Heald was the European managing director of Scient, a web technology development company. Prior to Scient, he ran Arthur D. Little’s e-business consulting group. Heald is an MBA graduate of Cranfield School of Management (U.K.).

Passionate about making technology work for people.Currently focused on helping marketing professionals create and qualify high quality leads and campaigns.Designed to ensure people to focus on communicating and not underlying technology and systems.Specialties: AWS, Cloud, VoIP, Web, Application design, architecture, network infrastructure, embedded systems, data processing and analytics.Application Development: Proof of concept, Design, Distrubuted real time architecture, VoIP, Streaming Media, Open Source Software, Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and messaging.Streaming Media: RTMP, Real, Microsoft ASF and web based protocols.Web development and mobile application development.Experience of full project lifecycle, strategy, prototyping, development, test and deployment.Broad knowledge of IT - from Mainframe MVS, Vax, Dec through to z80 assembly, Raspberry Pi and discrete electronics.Building teams and solutions in line with business requirements and resources.Also enjoys, Raspberry Pi, Ham Radio, Quadcopter Flying and most things digital!Father of 3 based in Hampshire, UK