Become a 21st Century Executive: Nigel Dessau

Nigel Dessau is the CMO at Stratus Technologies. He is also the driving force behind the website ‘The 3 Minute Mentor’ which provides simple, easy to follow career guidance in easy to follow three minute videos. The website is followed by Become a 21st Century Executivethousands of subscribers from all over the world and is currently being turned into a book.

Previously, as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of AMD, he was responsible for the company’s global marketing, image and campaign strategies. At Sun Microsystems, Dessau was Senior Vice President of Storage Marketing and Senior Vice President of Alliances and Licensing. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of StorageTek and spent 19 years at IBM. While at IBM, Dessau managed the worldwide launch of IBM eServer zSeries and headed up marketing programs for the S/390 brand. As part of the Corporate Marketing Team, he led the marketing strategy behind e-business and the transition to On Demand Business. Click here to visit Nigel Dessau’s website, “The 3 Minute Mentor”!

Nigel was born and educated in Nottingham, England and lives with his wife in Boston.