Fast-paced start-up based in Los Angeles, London, and Cambridge UK. Built a marketing team, created and implemented a full brand build-out, communications, website, sizzle reels, and marketing automation plan. Identified the opportunity to expand our technology into real-time sports advertising and I built out this new Business Unit with a multi-million-dollar customer pipeline.

As Vice President of Marketing at Cornelis Networks, Nick is responsible for all marketing and communications.
Cornelis Networks is a technology leader delivering purpose-built high-performance fabrics for High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Brand, Campaign & Creative Project Development / Marketing Operations Optimisation / Team Leadership and Coaching. I am an accomplished and creative professional with global experience in brand building and marketing management.

Adept at overseeing multichannel, integrated campaigns, while managing strict timelines, budgets, priorities, and resources in heavily matrixed environments. Specialist in achieving big picture goals including brand effectiveness and value growth,
revenue increases, and markets share gains.

A top-performing team leader, I am skilled in identifying and capitalising on opportunities to reach new markets and produce optimal ROI, marketing outcomes, and overall business satisfaction. I enjoy a reputation for creativity, integrity, and getting rapid results. I have a flair for simplifying complex technology concepts into elegant marketable messages. Comfortable in high-pressure, high-level CxO engagements.

Trilingual – English, French, & Russian; comfortable with US cultural norms.
Benefits from a huge network of technology company leaders, analysts, and journalist; in the USA, Europe, and Asia.

Areas of proven expertise:
• Marketing & Business Strategy
• Brand Strategy Development
• Marketing Campaign Development
• Potential Lead Generation
• Partner-Marketing Initiatives
• PR & Communication Strategies
• Staff Training and Development
• Trend, Market, and Competitive Analysis
• Keynote Speaker
• Agencies/Vendor Relationship Building

Global Head of AMD Brand marketing, AMD Corporate Campaigns & Sponsorships, and all company creative worldwide.

Managed relationships with worldwide external agencies as well as internal creative and video studios for seamless operations. Created new research-led campaigns, budgeting and execution of re-branding project and campaigns. Led a team to successfully create 6/20 of the most popular videos on AMD's YouTube channel. I directly managed a team of more than 20 people across the globe.

Selected contributions:
• Optimised creative activities through recruitment and management of world-class creative agency (ChiatDay/TBWA).
• Increased brand value to $1B+ and doubled consumer unaided awareness of CPU/GPU options for notebooks.
• Steered brand and creative project management, including advertising, events, videos, keynotes, and rebranding under strict time and budget constraints to attract and gain maximum targeted audiences.

Director for Brands and Datacentre Marketing (Oct 2017 to Nov 2018)

• Grew the AMD master brand and AMD Epyc processor marketing including creation and activation of the global ‘This is Epyc’ & ‘Xeon isn’t Epyc’ Epyc processor campaigns.
Global Director of Brand Strategy & Campaigns, Radeon Technologies Group (March 2017 to Oct 2017)
• Launched AMD Radeon Vega products in the gaming, professional graphics, compute, and datacentre markets.

Director of OEM Marketing, Radeon Technologies Group (Jan 2016 to March 2017)
• Led partner marketing efforts for Radeon products with the focus on professional, compute, and gaming segments.
• Planned and launched ‘Radeon Creator’s’ campaign with Apple for the new MacBook Pro launch in my first 90 days.

Nick Knupffer was the Director of International Marketing for Tibco. He was responsible for marketing and communications in Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, and Asia for Mashery API management products.

Nick Knupffer is the Director of International Marketing for Mashery, an Intel Company. He is responsible for marketing and communications in Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, and Asia for Mashery API management products.

Mashery delivers API management and software platforms for the connections that share information and intelligence across people and devices, which result in business-changing opportunities.

Director of Worldwide Marketing Communications

Director of Marketing

Global Communications Manager

UK Tech and Trade PR Manager