The third seat
The product works. The story has to.
Dan Ward is Director of Growth Marketing and Content Strategy at STROS. His job is to understand exactly what problems an operator has and show how a partner's platform solves them, then build everything that carries that into the market. Joint positioning with each partner. The vertical story and the proof that stands it up. White papers and briefs worth a senior operator's time, the content engine behind them, and enablement so both sales teams say the same thing. He looks after the STROS Partnerships brand as well.
Thirty years in marketing, across agency, retail and direct-to-consumer. He helped build an independent media agency from five people to more than 120 and £150m turnover, becoming one of its owners. Client-side he worked closely with Lord Kirkham at DFS, who later brought him in to run advertising at FABB Sofas, and he led the rebrand of Sofaworks to Sofology. More recently he took a young direct-to-consumer brand to 10 x its revenue in a year. Three years deep in AI, which is what lets a marketing engine this size run without a department behind it.
He built the STROS brand, the website and the communications strategy before he joined. The platforms he works with include Duvo, the Enterprise Execution OS for retail and consumer goods operations, and Fettle, warehouse optimisation from Picture Perfect Data, where STROS built the name, the brand and the go-to-market from scratch. For SHIELD, fleet risk and claims software, STROS refreshed the brand and built the new website.
Go-to-Market Strategy
Brand Positioning
Content Strategy
Sales Enablement
AI-led Marketing
Retail · Logistics · Supply Chain