Focus London: Learning and Talent Today

(On Demand)

Learning and Talent Today

At one of our only full-day Focus events, learning and development experts gathered together in London to help demystify learning and skills.

Explore the many challenges L&D, talent and HR professionals face day-to-day. Throughout the event, we will revisit these struggles as we address how to accommodate, adjust and even solve talent and engagement issues.


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About Your Speaker

David Maitland

David Maitland, Vice President, EMEA Sales, Degreed

David has a track record of launching technology start-up companies into the EMEA region, he also is a proven sales executive with experience at several of the world’s most influential enterprise technology providers.

Before Degreed, he was the Vice President of EMEA & APJ for Redis Labs where he established Redis Labs as a key enterprise software provider for the International Market out side of the Americas. Before Redis Labs, he was the General Manager for Couchbase, Inc. EMEA where he was responsible for building the EMEA business from its inception, resulting in Couchbase gaining customers from some of the largest brands across the region. Prior to joining Couchbase, he was the EMEA Head of Sales for Terracotta Inc, where he was responsible for building the EMEA business from scratch, which grew rapidly resulting in being acquired by Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW). David also held positions at Oracle Corporation where he was responsible for driving the Middleware business for Financial Services, also Sun Microsystems and Progress Software.

David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Distributed Information Systems and a Higher National Diploma from the University of East London, United Kingdom.

"Degreed has uniquely built its own technology category from the ground up and it is a hot one. They have also provided a blueprint for what best-in-class looks like as a product and a company."

Michael Rochell

Brandon Hall Group Chief Strategy Officer and Principal HCM Analyst