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Stacey Wueste

Creating Opptys for Early Stage Founders & Early Adopter Customers

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Business Development Partner

    2019

    Stacey builds and leads Decibel’s community of early adopter customers and works with Decibel’s technical founders to accelerate the process of finding product market fit. She develops customer sprints to provide rapid iteration through customer discovery, identifies strategic advisors and fosters executive sponsor-level relationships through Decibel’s Customer Councils including CTO, CISO and Data Engineering leaders. In partnership with the entrepreneurial teams at Cisco, Stacey leverages regional field events, executive briefing centers and custom account engagements to connect Decibel’s portfolio with emerging growth companies and Fortune 500 accounts within Cisco’s global customer base. Stacey also helps amplify the voice of founders by activating the hundreds of unique relationships within our network of strategic partners.

2011 - 2019

  • Founder

    2011 - 2019

    Building strategic partnerships, making critical connections and executing sales/marketing playbooks for high growth start ups, new business launches, local campaigns and passion project non-profits.

2003 - 2011

  • Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations, Channel Development and Marketing

    2003 - 2011

    Led worldwide channel partner development for HP's $15B commercial and enterprise sales channel organization. Developed Small/Medium business customer segment and ESG strategies for HP's $8B printer division.

2001 - 2003

  • Global Head of Corporate Communications

    2001 - 2003

    Led global corporate communications, CEO-level strategy and media relations resulting in coverage by top tier business publications including Forbes, NY Times, CNET, Reuters, Business Week features and a cover stories in Fortune.

1995 - 2001

  • Global Chief of Staff, Marketing Manager and Marketing Communications Manager

    1995 - 2001

    Chief of Staff, Global Commercial Sales, $10B sales quota. Marketing Manager, Notebooks, $400+ quota Marketing Communications Manager, Led cross-business, cross-function worldwide team, 120+ direct and 300+ indirect reports including advertising, public relations, analyst relations, strategic messaging, events and collateral with a multimillion dollar budget. Drove change management process leading to decrease of 30% in costs and increase of 20% program efficiency.

  • Account Executive

    1992 - 1995

    Third hire for new Bay Area office of fast-growing U.S. boutique marketing services firm. Developed client plans, launch strategies including media relations and analyst relations. Prepared clients for IPOs, identified and won new business. Firm was acquired by Ogilvy.