Daniel Dudley

  Strategist and Founder
Notable Moments
  • Secured invitation to participate in $65 million, 5-year DARPA contract program.
  • Facilitated introductions that led to multiple successful DoD contracts in excess of $1.0 million for a pre-revenue regenerative medicine company.
  • Recruited as to help launching the digital division of a legacy marketing agency. Grew agency revenue from $0 to $1.2 million annualized in 18 months.
  • Developed and implemented digital ad campaign that significantly outperformed national agencies in competitive bid scenario leading to signing of a major account.
  • Led team through SOC2 Type II and ISO27001:2013 audit and certification process
Notable Numbers
  • Raised $8.9+ million in private investment capital for pre-revenue medical device start-up.
  • Negotiated deferral and reduction of $1.0+ million dollars in past due accounts payable for pre-revenue medical device start-up during financial challenges.
  • Named inventor on 14+ US/international patent and patent applications associated with novel lighting and surgical technologies.
  • Obtained $200K in 100% fully forgivable funding in the first round of PPP funding through the CARES Act.
  • Increased company lead generation by over 1000% through a radical overhaul of client's digital ad strategy and implementation.

Selected Work Experience

RxWare
Director of Marketing and Revenue Operations
April 2022 - Present
Revenue Operations Manager
April 2021 - April 2022
  • Manage top-of-funnel commercial pipeline for all business prospects for venture-backed SaaS platform focused on specialty pharmaceuticals.
  • Lead marketing through implementation of new brand and communications/marketing
    strategy focused on blue ocean positioning and aggressive sales expansion.
  • Manage revenue operations including forecasting, billing, database integrity, and sales cycle optimization.
  • Led overall company rebranding efforts including product rename and relaunch.
  • Lead major revenue-driving partnerships for the private-label/white-label side of the business
Lazurite (Holdings)
Co-founder & Advisor
Jun 2015 - Present
Chief Operating Officer
Jun 2015 - Sept 2020
* Formerly Infinite Arthroscopy Inc.
  • Managed all business operations including budgeting, cash management, employee benefits, commercial insurance, facility/real estate, and federal/state/municipal relationships.
  • Led marketing, sales, and communications efforts for company and products including KOL identification, landscape analysis, and go-to-market planning.
  • Owned vendor/partner management and served as executive sponsor of internal and external product development, regulatory, and compliance activities.
  • Served as Board Observer, Corporate Secretary, Tax Matters Representative, and Partner- ship Representative in addition to executive role.
  • Managed board book and all legal activities including relationship with multiple outside counsels/firms with retainers in excess of $300K/year.
DragonID
Chief Design Officer
Nov 2013 - Sept 2020
  • Human factor engineer responsible for in-surgery observation, research, and usability design sketches.
  • Created collateral and communications deliverables to support company and client projects.
  • Consulted on commercialization opportunities for both client-initiated and internally initiated projects.
  • Supported fundraising activities and relationship development with external stakeholders.
Linkmedia360
Senior Digital Marketing Strategist, Healthcare
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Digital Marketing Strategist
Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
  • Led client relations and provided strategic direction for all clients within the healthcare vertical including businesses within senior care, consumer products, and medical device industries.
  • Trained and managed a team of content writers and marketing specialists on search engine optimization, content marketing, social media management, and marketing automation with a focus on high-value lead generation and leveraging efficient, scalable campaigns.
  • Grew wholly owned accounts to over $650K in annualized investment with a 100% retention track record on contract renewal.
Convervo*
Lead Advisors: Paid, Earned, & Owned
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
SEO and Analytics Specialist
May 2013 - Feb 2014
* Formerly SBN Interactive
  • Managed all paid, earned, and owned digital marketing efforts for all SBN Interactive clients including the development, execution, and analysis of PPC campaigns, implementation of on- and off-page SEO, and development of high-level digital content strategy.
  • Provided business development support for digital marketing sales force including developing new sales packages around paid, earned, and owned media and evaluated prospective clients’ current digital strategy with a focus on isolating sales opportunity.
  • Developed and presented custom, cross-channel, cross-platform, integrated marketing strategy plans for clients ranging in size from start-up companies to the Fortune 1000.

Additional Startup Experience

Aronetics - Information Security (Advisor)
UltraLight Industries - Deep Tech/RF Tech (Advisor)
AlGan - Photonics/Semiconductors (Advisor)
DragonID - Medical Device (Leadership, acquired 2015)
Aperature BioPhotonics - Medical Device (Cofounder, closed 2014)
SongBird International - Big Data/Medical Device (Cofounder, closed 2014)
eFuneral - End-of-Life/Tech Platform (acquired 2014)
LakeworkSpaces -Coworking (Cofounder, closed 2013)
RTC Studio - Event Production (Leadership, closed 2012)
TaskRabbit - Gig Economy (acquired 2017)
Paddle8 - Art World/Tech Platform (acquired 2016, spun out 2017)The Decathlon - Non-profit/Cancer Research (Leadership)

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