Stacey Wueste
Business Development Partner at Decibel Partners
Stacey Wueste
Business Development Partner at Decibel Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Business Development Partner
2019 - Current
Stacey builds and leads Decibel’s community of early adopter customers and works with Decibel’s technical founders to accelerate the process of finding product market fit. She develops customer sprints to provide rapid iteration through customer discovery, identifies strategic advisors and fosters executive sponsor-level relationships through Decibel’s Customer Councils including CTO, CISO and Data Engineering leaders. In partnership with the entrepreneurial teams at Cisco, Stacey leverages regional field events, executive briefing centers and custom account engagements to connect Decibel’s portfolio with emerging growth companies and Fortune 500 accounts within Cisco’s global customer base. Stacey also helps amplify the voice of founders by activating the hundreds of unique relationships within our network of strategic partners.
Founder
2011 - 2019
Building strategic partnerships, making critical connections and executing sales/marketing playbooks for high growth start ups, new business launches, local campaigns and passion project non-profits.
Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations, Channel Development and Marketing
2003 - 2011
Led worldwide channel partner development for HP's $15B commercial and enterprise sales channel organization. Developed Small/Medium business customer segment and ESG strategies for HP's $8B printer division.
Global Head of Corporate Communications
2001 - 2003
Led global corporate communications, CEO-level strategy and media relations resulting in coverage by top tier business publications including Forbes, NY Times, CNET, Reuters, Business Week features and a cover stories in Fortune.
Global Chief of Staff, Marketing Manager and Marketing Communications Manager
1995 - 2001
Chief of Staff, Global Commercial Sales, $10B sales quota. Marketing Manager, Notebooks, $400+ quota Marketing Communications Manager, Led cross-business, cross-function worldwide team, 120+ direct and 300+ indirect reports including advertising, public relations, analyst relations, strategic messaging, events and collateral with a multimillion dollar budget. Drove change management process leading to decrease of 30% in costs and increase of 20% program efficiency.
Account Executive
1992 - 1995
Third hire for new Bay Area office of fast-growing U.S. boutique marketing services firm. Developed client plans, launch strategies including media relations and analyst relations. Prepared clients for IPOs, identified and won new business. Firm was acquired by Ogilvy.