About Steve Ellis
About me
I'm one of the founders of Metia, an integrated marketing services vendor that serves clients in the technology and communications sectors.
We help our clients via three divisions - Influence, Marketing and Software - although our projects almost always tend to pull together teams across these disciplines.
Our Influence team engage and communicate on behalf of our customers with their key audiences. That may be different flavors of media, technology analysts, bloggers or policymakers.
The Marketing team design and run programs that focus on meeting the needs of our customers to get existing and new products to market successfully. So, as well all the standard marketing offerings around demand generation, we also do very tech savvy things in areas like partner and customer community engagement, and managing customer reference or advocacy programs.
And, because nothing happens these days without tools and technology, we have a very substantial Software division that develops enterprise class marketing applications and collaborative solutions, as well as building and publishing some of the biggest web sites on the interweb.
There's over 200 of us based in London, Seattle, New York, Singapore and Sydney - but we are always looking for more talent. If anything I said in the preceding few paras excited you, email us at jobs@metia.com.
In addition to Metia, seven years ago I also helped to start Finextra, a business community aimed at professionals in the financial technology arena around the world. At the time Finextra was an instinctive act of faith in the strength of community to bind together professionals working within a distinct vertical industry segment (it was set up on the, if you build it, they will come, principle of business planning).
Now everyone and their dog is inventing new jargon for what we started doing years back. Today the site gets over three million page views per month and has some 25,000 committed and participating professional members, each of whom subscribes to a range of different online news and community networking features. Unfashionably, it makes money too.