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Chris Staley

United States

MVP 2026

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United States
MVP 2025

Ambassador

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MVP 2023

Ambassador

United States
MVP 2021

Ambassador

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MVP 2020

Strategy

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MVP 2019

Strategy

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MVP 2018

Strategy

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MVP 2017

Strategy

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MVP 2016

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MVP 2015

Strategy

United States

Timeline

2025

21/Nov

Sitecore Platform Landing Page

Developed a new Sitecore platform landing page on the Horizontal Digital website to promote the Sitecore AI product. Built a social campaign to drive current and potential Sitecore clients to this page. We are starting to see more and more potential Sitecore clients landing on this page.

2025

6/Nov

Sitecore Symposium Social Post Video

Shot a video recapping Sitecore Symposium and posted on social Media

2025

4/Nov

Sitecore Symposium Community Event

Held an event at Sitecore Symposium - invited customers, partners such as Gradial and Vercel, Sitecore employees and many prospects. One example how it led to growing the Sitecore ecosystem is connecting the prospect Unilever with our customers SCJohnson & General Mills and led to Lunch with the Unilever prospect and the Horizontal team. I am now assisting Sitecore in pritching this customer out of the UK market. Many more such stories are coming out of this event.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

8/Sep

CMS Switch Social Media Campaign

Built a Campaign to get Customers to switch from Adobe, Drupal, Aquia, Tridion, Kentico, Oracle Web Center, Wordpress to sitecore specifically - after 2 months it drove:

Over 3,800 accounts have engaged with the campaign Over 1,100 accounts are currently receiving outreach Email open rates have remained strong 29 unique accounts have viewed the On-Demand webinar 226 MQLs have been generated

Partnered with Sitecore Marketing on Building landing pages on the Sitecore website for a swi...

Sitecore XM

2025

1/Sep

Sitecore XM Cloud eBook

Worked with Sheetal Jain Horizontal Digital's CTO to author the Sitecore XMCloud Playbook - a 44 page in depth guide to implementing Sitecore XM Cloud

Sitecore XM

2025

1/Aug

DXP Master Class Series

Came up with the idea of educating customers and potential customers on DXP platforms today - there is so many new concepts - what is a headless cms, how to select the right platform, what is atomic content, what is a scalable design system, etc.

Promoted this master class series on social media

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2025

14/Jul

XM Cloud Accelerator

Led a team to launch the most advanced Accelerator for Xm Cloud - shot a video to promote this new product as well as drive traffic to it via social media. In a year with customer budgets seeing downward preasure it was critical to find the right way that could deliver xm cloud implementations - without taking shortcuts. This video explained and articulated how we could implement XM Cloud at a lower effort/price

2025

3/Feb

Post Vive Event Insight Article

Wrote a post event insight think piece post the Vive Healthcare event and drove trafic to it via Social Media

Sitecore XM

2025

13/Jan

Spoke at Vive HEalthcare Conference on Sitecore w UCare a Sitecore Customer

Sponsored a Vive Healthcare Conference and spoke onstage about building a connected experience on Sitecore with a Sitecore customer UCare.

Sitecore XM

2024

18/Oct

Sitecore Symposium Video Content Production and Promotion

Created video content which I put out on social media promoting sitecore symposium topics. Pushed the video content on our linked in channel with over 150K subscribers. Purchased online media to promote the video content to both current and potential Sitecore customers in attendance as we as well as to current and prospective customers that were not in attendance

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2024

17/Oct

Symposium 2024: Setting the foundation for AI-driven connected experiences

I Spoke on stage at Sitecore symposium w my customer Ucare w Brian Kopp their digital transformation Director.

Our talk was around how consumers expect personalized, consistent experiences across multiple touchpoints. And with the power of AI, delivering the right content to the right segments across every channel is a promise we continue to hear. But where does this content come from, and where do you start?

We talked on stage about how UCare — a leader in the highly regulated healthcar...

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

16/Oct

Sitecore Symnposium Community Event - Josh Ross Concert

Hosted a socil event at Sitecore symposium that brought half of the attendees (900) at Sitecore Symposium together including potential customers, existing customers, Sitecore board members, Sitecore partners represented from every partner digital consultancy to celebrate the Symposium week. The event was cobranded with Sitecore.

2024

16/Oct

Sitecore Symposium Executive Track - Expert Panel Speaker

I spoke on an Expert Panel at Sitecore's Executive track at Sitecore Symposium. The topic was Driving the AI Strategic Roadmap - Hosted by Bjarne Hansen. Many of Sitecore's strategic customers and Sitecore's board members were in attendance.

2024

24/Sep

Customer Case Study: Shure

Created a case study for the Shure work. Shure was repeatedly presented at Sitecore's SKO as one of the best examples and few net new customer sales in the previous year. I promoted both the customer case at our booth at Sitecore Symposium and compiled the case study to be promoted on our website. I asked the client to be a speaker at Sitecore Symposium on the main stage and helped prepare the content to tell their story.

2024

1/Jul

XM Cloud Campaign

Designed an executed a campaign to target both Sitecore current customers as well as prospects. Designed a campaign to target customers that were reserching SAAS CMS or were considering a move to the cloud. Created video content I promoted on social media as well as worked with Sitecore on target customer lists to make sure we targeted the content to potential customers in the media buy. I incorportaed thought leadership wia video and content to sell the move to a SAAS CMS with XM cloud.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

26/Jun

Customer Case Study - Milliken

Continue to write customer case studies promoting Sitecore products. Not only a text and image case study - but also a video case study featuring the customer talking about how Sitecore helped them acheive their goals

Sitecore XM

2024

13/Mar

Podcast - Marketing Mastery: Sitecore’s CMO Vision for Digital Innovation

In this episode of the CX4CA podcast, I delved into the strategies and insights driving Sitecore’s evolution in the digital sphere alongside Sitecore’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kathie Johnson, and me, Horizontal Digital’s Chief Digital Officer. I talked with Kathie about her illustrious career journey in the digitally-rich realm, and helped listeners gain exclusive insights into Sitecore’s pivotal marketing goals for 2024 as they pave the way for unparalleled growth in the Customer Experience la...

2024

16/Jan

Speaker at Sitecore DX Dubai

Presented on the main stage at Sitecore DX Dubai. Spoke about how customers are trying to build connected experiences for their customers, ones that continue the conversations as customers jump in and out of channels. Highlighted the technology stacks that allows a company to deliver on this vision and talked about how customers can continue to innovate with sitecore's composable stack and their XM Cloud product.

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