The Knowledge Capital Group Team
William S. Hopkins - Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner
Bill is the founder and CEO of The Knowledge Capital Group (KCG). Bill is frequently quoted in the trade and business press and regularly presents at trade shows and conferences around the world. He is recognized as a cutting-edge thought leader in the marriage of traditional and Web based enterprise business systems and has served as an advisor to some of the world's most successful innovators of customer and business-oriented solutions. Prior to launching KCG Bill was Senior Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for SMART Technologies. Before SMART Bill launched and was the research director for Gartner's Marketing Knowledge and Technology (MKT) service. Prior to Gartner, Bill held executive and international management positions at Gentia Software, Dun and Bradstreet's Sales Technologies, Inc. subsidiary, the SAS Institute and GE Capital Corporation. He has a B.S. from Babson College.
Dustin Stanton - Research and Operations Manager
As a research associate, Dustin is passionate about helping KCG's clients find their full potential and optimization in their AR career. He does this by conducting research and producing client-specific reports that optimize AR professionals' endeavors in their role, and for their team. Prior to KCG, Dustin retired from the NFL after a four-year career with the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys, as an offensive lineman. He’s a graduate of Oregon State University with a degree in entrepreneurship.
Stephen F. England - President & Partner
Stephen England has an extensive international background in sales, marketing and business development. He oversees KCG Operations and is a co-author of the KCG AR book. As Managing Director of Dennis Publishing in London he developed five of the top ten PC magazines in Europe. At MicroWarehouse (the fifth largest catalog company in the world at the time) he was intricately involved in building a Fortune 1000 company in less than seven years. He has also served as VP of Marketing for Living.com, COO/President of Camera.com and VP of Business Development at eCRM software company eCustomers.com. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia with a degree in Microbial Biochemistry.
Jeff Turner - Chief Client Officer
Jeff is a strategic commercialization executive with over 25 years of proven success building and leading elite sales teams, launching innovative products and services, and growing diverse business units in organizations ranging from pure start-up, corporate restructure, and Fortune 500 firms.
He excels in collaborative efforts with diverse individuals and organizations with a tireless approach to addressing customer needs. Jeff possesses a distinct aptitude for sales, marketing and business development which allows him to define the overarching sales strategy in an ever-changing market while also being detail oriented to execute that strategy.
Jeff has also led and advised companies with regards to new product launch strategy, commercialization, national distribution, market segmentation, key opinion leader development, new technology evaluation, financial modeling, KPI scorecards, compliance programs and negotiating terms and contracts.
Most recently, Jeff has served as the VP of Research and Client Operations for the Futurum Group where he was involved in a variety of roles from managing a team of Analysts and Research Directors to developing an industry-leading Customer Success program.
Jeff holds a Master of Business Administration from Augsburg University and a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University.
Luke Zimmermann - Strategic Partner in Analyst Relations at KCG
The Knowledge Capital Group's Strategic Partners
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David Rossiter, Director - Industry Analyst Relations , Harvard Communications
David is an experienced and award-winning industry analyst relations leader. As the director of AR at Harvard Communications, part of the VCCP group, David helps companies take advantage of analyst influence and insight, enabling them to win more business, build better reputations and become more competitive.
David is one of Europe's most highly regarded AR professionals. He has specialised in industry analyst relations since 2001, developing and implementing effective, targeted AR programmes for companies such as Amdocs. Dassault Systemes, Dun & Bradstreet, META, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, Qualcomm, Ricoh, Virgin Media, and Vodafone.
He has been closely involved with the IIAR (Institute of Influencer and Analyst Relations) since helping to found it.
Before this, David worked as a tech PR consultant and an advertising copywriter.
Simon Jones - Managing Partner - Destrier AR - KCG Strategic Partner for mainland Europe
Over a 20-year career in analyst relations, Simon has driven AR programs for vendors including Google, Fujitsu, Fluke, Adaptec, Compaq and United Utilities. Destrier AR’s clients seek out Simon’s deep AR experience, wide industry knowledge and a well-established analyst network to fast-track their analyst relations programs, on national, regional and global levels. Simon focuses on enabling vendors to move their dot (up, and to the right) in major analyst evaluation reports and provides mentoring and strategic advisory for up-and-coming AR professionals. A certified journalist by training, Simon worked on newspapers and magazines in the UK before crossing over to PR by joining the UK’s Automobile Association in 1991, originally planning to “try it for six months”. Based in Munich, Germany, Simon is co-lead of the IIAR’s German chapter.