Episode 45 - Ben Watson

Ben Watson is a principal in the newly formed customer marketing team for the Digital Enterprise Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. Ben’s responsible for working across the Adobe organization to optimize the enterprise customer journey and provide customer input to help define Adobe’s industry leading customer experience solutions and CEM platform. Ben is a recognized thought leader and is directly engaged in many customer experience initiatives with Adobe’s leading customers. While at Adobe he has been an energetic advocate within community and social media circles and was one of the first external Adobe bloggers. He has worked in both platform and enterprise marketing and lead the creation of the role of technical evangelism and the team at Adobe in its formation several years ago. Prior to joining Adobe, Watson served as director of user experience and BPM strategy at IMP Solutions, director of product strategy for Yahoo! and the senior manager for developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, he spent several years in the advertising agency and publishing space in varied roles such as creative director and CTO and has worked on campaigns and internet strategy for many of the world's top brands. In 2008, he was honored as one of Canada’s Top 10 Men in Social Media.