Hugh Taylor, Senior Vice President - Hugh has two decades of experience in marketing and management in the technology industry. He has served in executive roles at global enterprises as well as at venture-backed startups. He was VP of Marketing at MediaPlatform from 2009 to 2012. As Social Software Evangelist for IBM Software Group he developed a unique financial payback model to quantify ROI for social software in the corporate environment. The resulting paper received the Marcom Platinum Award for Whitepaper Writing in 2009. As Public Relations Manager for Microsoft's SharePoint Technologies, Hugh was responsible for generating the "Billion dollar juggernaut" story that helped make SharePoint a high profile product for the company, generating over 800 pieces of press coverage in one year.