Edgeways Communications

By

Stephen Warde

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Stephen Warde

I’m an experienced product marketer and manager, who has helped to make a success of three outstanding University of Cambridge spin-out businesses.

With Edgeways Communications, I’m making this experience available to start-up or scale-up businesses, or business units of larger organisations who could use some local support. Your clients are busy and bombarded by noise. Maybe I can help you to get a word in edgeways.

I like to work with a small number of interesting businesses on hands-on, practical projects that can have commercial impact for you, while fitting in around my other interests. I bring extensive experience of businesses like yours, so that I can quickly pull together content that hits your marketing targets, while working with you to ensure technically accuracy.

A few highlights from this experience:

  • 30 years of creating scientifically-oriented marketing content in sectors including materials science, life science, engineering, and education.
  • Management of product marketing, product management, and marketing communications teams.
  • Senior management team member for a university spin-out software business as it grew from 35 to 200 people; core member of the project team in a successful sale to a global engineering software leader.
  • Director of Global MarCom for a Nasdaq-listed US public company.
  • Extensive collaboration with product development teams and direct sales teams in Europe and the US.

I’m proud to have worked for these organisations in the Cambridge hi tech cluster:

  • Accelrys (formerly Molecular Simulations Inc. and Cambridge Molecular Design), the leader in computational chemistry that went on to become the Biovia business of Dassault Systemes.
  • Granta Design, an innovative materials and engineering software business serving both industry and higher education, acquired by engineering software giant Ansys in 2019.
  • Intellegens, a machine learning spin-out from the Cavendish Laboratory doing great things to accelerate R&D. I’m delighted that I continue to support the Intellegens team.