Sean Chandler
C8 Founder & Senior Partner
High-Tech | Wireless | Health & Life Science | Green Tech & Energy
Design | Digital Marketing | Consulting & Professional Services
Expertise:
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Strategic Consulting and Partnerships
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Business Management & Consulting
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Executive Strategy & Corporate Structure
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Venture & Business Startup
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International Business & Market Development
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Leadership Development & Training
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Large-scale/Enterprise Initiatives
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Client Services
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Digital Marketing
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Agile Marketing
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Agile & Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Availability:
PT & Fractional availability
A Bit About Sean
Personally - Sean love's to travel with his family experiencing cultures, communities and the diverse beauty of our world. He enjoys the outdoors, skiing, boating and cycling. With the Pacific Northwest as his home, he treasures exploring and experiencing all that the beautiful PNW has to offer. He and his wife have been fortunate to have visited many countries around the world with London and NYC as their favorite home away from home cities. However, Sean has also visited many wonderful and remote locations including a few exciting and even a few hair-raising experiences in places like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. ​
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Professionally - Sean is a Passionate explorer of new and innovative approaches to help people connect, build rich experiences, remove barriers and expand businesses. In the early 2000's, Sean develop global markets focusing on innovative technology solutions for healthcare, education and high-tech. After launching market offices in Dubai and Riyadh, Sean shifted his attention back home to Seattle and the US market in 2011. Sean has been fortunate enough to advise and partner together with some amazing clients including: Amazon, Microsoft, HTC, T-Mobile, eBay, Cisco, Webex, Facebook/Meta, HP and Brooks Running as well as many Health & Life Science companies including: UHG, Optum, Takeda, J&J, Pfizer, Cigna, Anthem, Humana & BD. ​
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Sean is a Lifelong learner driven to understand, empathize and connect as we work together to tackle big and impactful challenges.
Highlighted Leadership & Consulting Experience
February 2023 - Present
December 2022 - Present
January 2024 - Present
March 2021 - February 2023
July 2019 - March 2021
April 2013 - July 2019
August 2011 - April 2013
July 2008 - December 2011
September 2004 - July 2011
Prior to 2004
C8
C8 Group Founder and Senior Partner
Joie Brands Senior Partner and Americas Managing Director
Leading and managing the US expansion and market launch with initial focus markets in Canada, the Western United States, Hawaii and Mexico.
Served as a Strategic Advisor from December 2022 to May 2024 when he moved into the Senior Partner and Americas Managing Director role.
Hamilton Project: Green Energy Venture Strategic Advisor
Serving as a Senior Strategic Advisor for a Green Energy Technology Venture. Drafted the Business Plan, Financial Prospectus and Investor Package. Led the development of the initial Operating Model, Comms Plan, Production Plans & Budgets. Worked with Perkins Coie LLP to revise and update the corporate structure.
Currently leading the Product Development Plan and GTM Strategy. Leading Development with a dual focus on Industry Partnerships and Investor Cultivation. Developing on the Funding Plan.
Designit Global Group Director & Executive Client Partner
Established & launched the Health & Life Science sector for Designit. Developed sector to 15+ Health, Life Science and Medical Device accounts internationally by 2022.
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Negotiated and won the largest single contract in Rational/Designit history with United.
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Led and managed Cisco with leadership direction and oversight of Amazon, HP, T-Mobile and numerous other High-Tech and Wireless clients.
Wipro Digital and Rational Client Partner, Director of Client Services
Led the HLS (Health & Life Sciences) & CMD (Consumer & Medical Devices) for Strategic Design and Marketing Services.
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Authored, Developed and Led the Client Services Program responsible for Designit, Wipro and Rational collaborative alignment, training and business process optimization.
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Architected and drove Client Services transformation and provided strategic development leadership to the emerging Consulting practice.
Slalom Sr. Management Consultant, Director & Client Partner for T-Mobile and Emerging Markets
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T-Mobile Account IT Partner leading all technology efforts for the #2 Slalom global account. Grew IT business from 6%-64% share of the TMO-Slalom business in 2 years.
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Grew YOY TMO account sales 4x and IT sales 10x from 2014-2016 resulting in the T-Mobile account taking the #1 Slalom Global account.
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Solution Architect and leader of the TDM COE for TMO EIT (Enterprise IT) a team of 85 TDMs (Technical Delivery Managers) driving all TMO Digital Transformation and Enterprise Infrastructure efforts. Executed over 270 enterprise projects, worth over $980M.
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Co-Authored, developed and taught the Slalom Large Cap Dev protocol across Slalom Seattle senior leadership. Program was subsequently deployed globally to all Slalom leadership and business development.
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Emerging Market Client Partner - Developed the Clients Services Pilot Program for Slalom's Emerging Market sector. Developed and led client accounts including: eBay, Facebook, Seagen (formerly Seattle Genetics) and Brooks Running
Strong Bridge Sr. Management Consultant & Account Executive for HTC
Joie Brands Strategic Advisor
DSG Global Managing Partner and Head of the Dubai, UAE office.
Various sales, account management, consulting and start-up engagements. Inquire for more details.
Global Highlights
Oslo Webex projects
London various projects and partners
Tokyo project
Taipei HTC project
Lagos market launch
Bangalor design & dev teams
Lebanese design & dev teams
Kabul Roshan telco project
Lahore projects and partners
Dubai market launch projects and partners
Riyadh market launch projects
Bahrain projects and partners
Colombia projects
NYC office
Dallas office
California office
Seattle HQ various projects
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Skillset, Experience & Capabilities
Strategy · Strategic Partnerships · Business Management & Leadership · Team Leadership & Training · Executive Consulting · Cross-team Collaboration · Stakeholder Management · Corporate and Program Communication · Agile Scrum Master · Agile Client Relationship Management · Certified SAFe Product Owner Product Manager (POPM) · Agile Marketing
PMO Leadership · Enterprise Program Development & Management
Education & Certifications
University of Washington
BA, Political Science & Law
Mortar Board Honors Graduate
Certified Scrum Master (POPM)
Scaled Agile - SAFe
Issued 2018
Agile Marketing Professional
Agile Marketing Alliance
