Functional Skills

Digital Marketing / Advertising
Go-to-market Strategy
Brand Strategy
Business Analytics
Business Development
Content Strategy
Growth Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Product Marketing
Sales Strategy

Software Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Mobile safari
Shopify
iPhone
Google Analytics

Sector Experience

Healthcare
Retail
Financial Services
Technology
Consumer Goods

Languages

English
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17
years

Years of Experience

6/19

Member Since


Experience

 
Proof Analytics Marketing
Fractional CMO
05/2022 - Present
Fractional CMO to Silicon Review's 50 Top Startups

• Positioned Proof by aligning brand, category, product for the market
• Introduced partnership marketing + brand ambassador sales initiatives
• Relaunched entire digital footprint (web, social, paid, organic)
• Instituted metric-driven, trackable demand gen strategies
• +950% increase in website visits and behavioral activities
• +250% increase in social following and behavioral activities
• +500+% increase in deal velocity (months to weeks)

Plug Marketing
VP of Marketing
05/2021 - Present
VP of Marketing who owns Go to Market, Brand, Category

BRAND
+97% page visits and behavioral activities
+96% brand awareness
+447% digital impressions
8 Tier 1 Media (CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC)

SALES
+25% sales revenue
5K new Fortune leads
2.5X increase in AR Event registration/attendance
+30% LinkedIn organic growth, unique visitors, clicks, new followers
+90% Twitter growth in page visits and mentions, +400% impressions

Nicholas Cappas Consulting Marketing
Founder, Senior Consultant
04/2013 - 04/2021
So thankful to have consulted for an All-Star list of clients: Kimberly-Clark Professional, Ogilvy, Home Depot, IHG, JWT, 22Squared, Mizuno, State Farm, Proof Analytics.

Together we’ve opened new markets, innovated, disrupted, positioned, and turned category confusion into multimillion dollar revenue.

Kimberly-Clark (2020-2021)
• Turned category confusion into a large future revenue source. Split our product set and helped spawn a new division. New category growth projected at $15M over 10-year period. Category drives sales from related brands, so will have a multiplier revenue effect.

State Farm, 2019-2020
• Digitally transformed our corporate website, created end to end product customer journey mapping, and overhauled SEO content strategy and execution. In less than 6 months, created a pioneering prototype to completely overhaul a declining digital app product.

22Squared, Taproom 2018
• Doubled ecommerce market share and 150% increased lead gen in 1 year.

Teknion Data Solutions Management Consulting
Business Consultant
01/2011 - 03/2013
Business consultant on website content projects and right-hand person to the CMO of our digital consulting firm.

• On a team of 7, successfully turned a broken interactive web content project into a Multi-$1,000 Revenue generating product that within the first year has sold to a 1,000-member hospital, a 2,500 member College, and a 5,000 member International Organization.
• On a team of 8, created a new branding approach for a digital interactive client. Within 1 year, we saw the company's revenue grow 20%.
• Consistently edited/created 2-3 strategic marketing pieces per month on a demanding time schedule.

Corestaff Consulting Management Consulting
Business Consultant
05/2007 - 01/2011
usiness consultant on a variety of marketing and business development projects, including K-Hovnanian, Microsoft, Tenet Healthcare.

2010 - 2011
Tenet Health Care, Business Development
• Researched and created a $$ Multi-Million Executive Proposal to reduce our sales cycle from 15 weeks to less than 9 weeks. Proposed solution was immediately adopted by the C-Suite.
• In less than 4 months, developed an IT strategy to automate 3 steps in the marketing campaign cycle and devised an analytics model to refine market campaigns.

2007 - 2009 K-Hovnanian Home Building
Marketing Consultant to home building teams
• Attained first-call contract status with 2 major builders.
• Repeat, continual consulting to 4 K-Hovnanian locations.

2007 Microsoft
Business Analyst to a Marketing Executive at Corporate Headquarters
• Improved our market-forecasting ratio to a record 90% accuracy.
• Implemented a new strategy for a 5-state marketing team.