Dave Dickinson

CMO B2C Marketing

Dave is an Award-winning Fortune 500 Information Technology leader valued in key positions, both in the U.S. as well as Europe, India and Australia, with industry leaders such as INTEL, MCI, USWEST and QWEST – awarded the coveted “CIO Award” in 1996 for technical innovation; rated in top 5% of executives from 1994-1999.

Dave managed the development of critical corporate systems like MCI’s Friends and Family sales and marketing applications – cut development costs 15%-20%, overhead costs 15% and vendor costs by $30 million, while improving quality 60% and on-time delivery 50%.

Dave developed SongTouch.com, the largest faith-based digital music and entertainment website in the world, currently #2 in sales, with more than 25 million visitors monthly.

He orchestrated the turnaround of USWEST/QWEST’s service delivery organization, preserving a $100 million capital investment.

Finally, Dave implemented new systems for MCI that maintained over 12 million customers, produced 50 million marketing leads, generated over 300 million telemarketing leads and 200 million direct mail leads to support product acquisition efforts – all within three months from conception.

David Dickinson’s specialties:

  • Strategic Analysis & Planning
  • Project Management
  • Growth Strategies
  • Technology Innovation
  • Productivity Business Development
  • Turnarounds
  • Consumer Products & Services
  • CRM • Telemarketing
  • Networks
  • New Product Development & Launch
  • Software Development
  • Cost Management
  • Contract Negotiations M&A
  • Acquisition & Systems Integration
  • Vendor Relations
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • e-Commerce
  • Start-ups
  • Budgeting
  • PMOs
  • Process Improvement
  • Downsizing
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Branding

David Dickinson’s experience includes: CMO of Focus on the Family and COO/Vice President Operations of Touch Inc., a privately held music download company.

Prior to Touch Inc., Dave was President/Founder of ADK Solutions, a strategic marketing consulting company.

Previously, Dave was Vice President, Service Delivery at USWest/Qwest.

Prior to Qwest, he was Executive Director of MCI and formerly, the Director Information Technology at MCI.

Prior to MCI, Dave held a number of marketing positions at Intel.