Relaunch

After a summer full of peak moments, I’m eager to get back to work as a CMO for a company in emerging tech/media – to apply my 25+ years of experience and expertise in amplifying brands and accelerating business growth.?

To launch the search, I am reintroducing myself …

I came to the US from Norway on a swim scholarship to study business. My drive to compete in and out of the water has fueled my passions and professional life ever since. Today, I help Fortune 500 tech/media companies and category pioneers to compete and grow by building and leading diverse, high-performance teams that deliver customer and shareholder value through peak marketing excellence.

Over the years, I have become a CMO with a CEO mindset. I’m attracted to complex challenges that require strategic/system thinking and teamwork across functions. My roles at Malwarebytes , Verizon , 雅虎 , Rocket Works (AI) Acceleration Intelligence , 泰为 /Scout, 微软 /Bing/ Tellme Networks , 美国在线 Time Warner, Netscape Communications , and MSNBC /NBC required creating order out of chaos. In all roles, I have consistently increased reach, retention, revenue, and resource impact as the CMO / head of marketing for both public and private companies – and have often been promoted into GM roles.

As a growth-minded executive, entrepreneur, athlete, and coach, I have consistently performed at the highest levels and sought to bring out the best in people. As a people-first marketing leader, I build best-of-breed practices and programs. As a disciplined brand steward, I ensure that we 'walk the talk' on the brand across all customer touchpoints and experiences – enabled by empathy and a strong culture that knows customers by heart. As a digital marketing veteran, I’m an early adopter of state-of-the-art modern tools to find and remove friction across the customer journey.

I make unfit products fit. In sports, you always start where you are and grow from there. I diagnose fitness and friction to glean insights from the entire customer journey. I specialize in developing deep data-driven human/customer insights, competitive intelligence, and product innovation with purpose for people’s daily lives – and infusing customer benefits and competitive differentiation into full-funnel growth strategies that inspire teams and resonate with customers.

Everything I do starts with people: customers, employees, and empathy for everyone, inclusive of everyone across functions. I have learned from my coaches and mentors how to create high-performing teams to get things done with integrity, creativity, grit, and a growth mindset. I recruit the best athletes for each position, align teams towards a common vision/goal, lean into and leverage diversity and unique strengths, and create high-performance teams that enable and empower everyone to excel and do their best work – together. I invest deeply in people and pride myself on identifying and championing high-potential people, ensuring my leaders thrive and grow (e.g. two recent direct reports were hired as first-time CMOs).

As a disciplined athlete I have learned how to set goals, visualize success, create commitment, persist and work through pain and problems, learn from experiments and errors, leverage superpowers and unique strengths, and use metrics/feedback to get better with each day, workout, race, and milestone. I always find ways to improve, grow, excel, and win!

If you’d like to learn about my approach for elevating performance from good to great, I’d love to chat. Please DM me or email DariuszPaczuski at gmail dot com to connect/share ideas.

PS: Cheers and endless gratitude to my managers and mentors who have shaped my career: Mike McCue , Jeff Bonforte , Dan Renaldo , Jerrell Jimerson , Diego Scotti , Debra Berman , Carolyn Feinstein , Iván Markman , Jim Bankoff , Zig Serafin , Allie S. Kline , Jim Riesenbach , Ted Cahall , Eric Nass , Dave Beckwith , Mark Evans , Todd Unger , Chelle Izzi , Hp Jin , Barry Mainz , Barbara Gore , Susan Mernit , David Pemberton