Chaz Nichols
Director of Global Partnerships at Westwood Community Church- Claim this Profile
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Fred Marks
Chaz and I worked together at Compaq developing marketing programs between Compaq and Novell. I was amazed at how easy it was for Chaz to gain access and develop relationships with our Executive VP's and CEO of Compaq and get them to buy into our marketing programs. While at Compaq, Chaz developed a number of go to market plans with Novell that were very successful for both Compaq and Novell. I still refer to a couple of the plans that Chaz developed for my own business today. Chaz is an awesome person and would be a great asset to any business.
Rebecca Bowers
I had the pleasure of working with Chaz while he managed the Compaq Global Alliance at Novell. Chaz was very well respected by both the Compaq and Novell executives as he consistently displayed strong leadership ability and drove to make the partnership a success for both companies. Not only did Chaz excel at defining the strategic direction of the partnership but he was also very good at executing the plans to bring incremental revenue to both Compaq and Novell. These skills in combination with his passion for success and positive attitude make Chaz and exceptional addition to any organization.
Fred Marks
Chaz and I worked together at Compaq developing marketing programs between Compaq and Novell. I was amazed at how easy it was for Chaz to gain access and develop relationships with our Executive VP's and CEO of Compaq and get them to buy into our marketing programs. While at Compaq, Chaz developed a number of go to market plans with Novell that were very successful for both Compaq and Novell. I still refer to a couple of the plans that Chaz developed for my own business today. Chaz is an awesome person and would be a great asset to any business.
Rebecca Bowers
I had the pleasure of working with Chaz while he managed the Compaq Global Alliance at Novell. Chaz was very well respected by both the Compaq and Novell executives as he consistently displayed strong leadership ability and drove to make the partnership a success for both companies. Not only did Chaz excel at defining the strategic direction of the partnership but he was also very good at executing the plans to bring incremental revenue to both Compaq and Novell. These skills in combination with his passion for success and positive attitude make Chaz and exceptional addition to any organization.
Fred Marks
Chaz and I worked together at Compaq developing marketing programs between Compaq and Novell. I was amazed at how easy it was for Chaz to gain access and develop relationships with our Executive VP's and CEO of Compaq and get them to buy into our marketing programs. While at Compaq, Chaz developed a number of go to market plans with Novell that were very successful for both Compaq and Novell. I still refer to a couple of the plans that Chaz developed for my own business today. Chaz is an awesome person and would be a great asset to any business.
Rebecca Bowers
I had the pleasure of working with Chaz while he managed the Compaq Global Alliance at Novell. Chaz was very well respected by both the Compaq and Novell executives as he consistently displayed strong leadership ability and drove to make the partnership a success for both companies. Not only did Chaz excel at defining the strategic direction of the partnership but he was also very good at executing the plans to bring incremental revenue to both Compaq and Novell. These skills in combination with his passion for success and positive attitude make Chaz and exceptional addition to any organization.
Fred Marks
Chaz and I worked together at Compaq developing marketing programs between Compaq and Novell. I was amazed at how easy it was for Chaz to gain access and develop relationships with our Executive VP's and CEO of Compaq and get them to buy into our marketing programs. While at Compaq, Chaz developed a number of go to market plans with Novell that were very successful for both Compaq and Novell. I still refer to a couple of the plans that Chaz developed for my own business today. Chaz is an awesome person and would be a great asset to any business.
Rebecca Bowers
I had the pleasure of working with Chaz while he managed the Compaq Global Alliance at Novell. Chaz was very well respected by both the Compaq and Novell executives as he consistently displayed strong leadership ability and drove to make the partnership a success for both companies. Not only did Chaz excel at defining the strategic direction of the partnership but he was also very good at executing the plans to bring incremental revenue to both Compaq and Novell. These skills in combination with his passion for success and positive attitude make Chaz and exceptional addition to any organization.
Credentials
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CA-AM
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals
Experience
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Westwood Community Church
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United States
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Religious Institutions
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Global Partnerships
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Oct 2013 - Present
Deliver strategic leadership and managerial oversight to Westwood's expanding local and targeted global compassion, justice, and development ministry initiatives. Deliver strategic leadership and managerial oversight to Westwood's expanding local and targeted global compassion, justice, and development ministry initiatives.
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Strategic Alliance Director and Business Development
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May 2009 - May 2012
Entrepreneur: Responsible for hunting, managing, growing profitable strategic alliances and core publisher base, marketing strategy/execution, and expansion of cloud-based global network. Achievements: ● Recruited, built, negotiated key publisher partnership in the U.S., UK, Latin America ● Recruited, built, managed strategic print and distribution company alliances in U.S. & UK ● Trained partner sales teams on technology benefits delivered through cloud computing ● Developed visionary alliance model: global, cloud-based, SaaS enabled, network of high-tech, digital book printing facilities Results: ● Year-over-year hockey stick growth curve for publisher/customer acquisition ● 100% year-over-year sales growth ● Over 25 key publishing, print and distribution partnerships ● Worldwide recognition of Snowfall Press Show less
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Seagate Technology
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United States
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Computer Hardware Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliances, Demand Generation
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Jun 2005 - Mar 2009
OEM Global Alliance Management Achievements: ● With top OEM partnerships (IBM, HP, Dell, Sun), increased revenues of Small Form Factor enterprise drives from $1M to $100M per year – grew and held marketshare from new product launch to 65% ● Successfully drove adoption of small form factor enterprise drives from start-up obscurity to being the industry standard for servers Channel OEM Demand Generation Achievements: ● Built first Seagate worldwide Channel eco-system partnerships (Intel, Microsoft, AMD, Adaptec, LSI, AIC, Chenbro) ● With key partners, drove acceptance and adoption of Small Form Factor enterprise drives in the Channel ● Increased revenues for Small Form Factor drives from start up revenue levels to $16M per year and marketshare to 65% Show less
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General Manager
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2003 - 2005
GM, Strategic Alliances, Business Development Entrepreneur/Start up: Day-to-day management of the this cloud-based, SaaS focused, data backup and sync solution. Achievements: ● Built dlxEasyBackup, the company’s hosted, online, real-time data backup service, (www.dlxEasyBackup.com), from a local service to a worldwide provider of real-time backup ● Negotiated key contracts with all channel partners ● Hunted and built strategic partnerships ● VC and Angel investor relationships ● Keynote speaker and press relations lead Show less
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Novell
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Manager, Global OEM Alliances
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1999 - 2002
Day-to-day general management of Novell and Compaq partnership – a worldwide, multi-billion dollar-a-year strategic relationship. ● Developed, executed long-term joint business and marketing plans across all GEOs ● Contract negotiations ● Manage multi-million dollar global market development fund ● Marketing collateral, videos, ad development and execution ● Key industry trade show planning and execution Achievements: ● Built successful world-wide network of alliance managers who implemented key geography initiatives for the partnership ● Designed and implemented numerous joint marketing campaigns – driving use and sales of NetWare on Compaq servers ● Active sponsorship and engagement of the CEO, senior management, sales and engineering groups Results: $200M per year revenue for Novell, vibrant worldwide engagement at all levels between the two companies Show less
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Compaq Computer Corporation
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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ISV Partner Alliance and Marketing Manager
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1997 - 1999
Developed and executed joint world-wide marketing plans with Oracle, SAS, and Novell. Achievements: ● Developed and implemented comprehensive joint marketing plan for world-wide launch of NetWare 5 ● Developed/managed creation of award winning world-wide partner videos ● Managed comprehensive Novell partnership: aligning CEOs, senior management, sales, marketing and engineering to achieve long-term, strategic alliance sales and marketing goals and quota Results: $1B in revenue to Compaq from servers sold pre-loaded with NetWare or through the SmartStart program Show less
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Artisoft, Inc.
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Computer Networking
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Director, Marketing and Alliances
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1995 - 1997
Managed the industry’s acclaimed Artisoft VAR Channel program, the Strategic Partner Marketing group – driving joint marketing, PR, and trade show engagements. Achievements: ● Hunted, built and nurtured first Artisoft Partner program with key partners such as IBM, HP, 3Com, Sage, Peachtree, Great Plains Software, and many other key partners. ● Grew Artisoft revenues through successful alliances Managed the industry’s acclaimed Artisoft VAR Channel program, the Strategic Partner Marketing group – driving joint marketing, PR, and trade show engagements. Achievements: ● Hunted, built and nurtured first Artisoft Partner program with key partners such as IBM, HP, 3Com, Sage, Peachtree, Great Plains Software, and many other key partners. ● Grew Artisoft revenues through successful alliances
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Department Marketing Manager
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1986 - 1993
Managed all day-to-day operations of this award winning, eighteen person marketing communications department. Managed all day-to-day operations of this award winning, eighteen person marketing communications department.
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Education
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1990 - 1992
University of San Francisco
MBA, International Business -
Reading Memorial High School
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University of Oklahoma
BFA, Advertising, Design
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