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Nick Stein on the TechTO stage

Nick Stein

CMO & go-to-market advisor, Independent

MarketingTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Nick Stein is a marketing leader who has been chief marketing officer at three venture-backed companies — Top Hat, Maple and PocketHealth — after leading marketing at Vision Critical, Salesforce and Rypple. He was an award-winning business journalist at Fortune and CBC's The National first, and now advises founders on go-to-market through Leaders Fund's community.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Nick

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Who is Nick Stein?

A Toronto marketing executive who has served as CMO at Top Hat, Maple and PocketHealth. He now works as a fractional CMO and go-to-market advisor, and is listed in the community of advisors around Leaders Fund, the Toronto enterprise-software venture firm.

What did Nick Stein do at Top Hat?

He was Top Hat's first chief marketing officer, hired in November 2016 to run brand, communications, customer acquisition and retention. He joined from Vision Critical, where he was SVP of marketing, and had previously been senior director of marketing at Salesforce and director of marketing at Rypple, the Toronto startup Salesforce bought in 2012.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

He joined the August 2017 SalesTO panel on selling from the buyer's perspective, introduced as Top Hat's CMO at a company whose edtech platform was then used by two million students across 750 of the biggest universities (TechTO SalesTO, August 2017, 1:12).

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