David Slater is the Chief Marketing Officer at Levata, a nearly $1B enterprise tech company where he recently led a full rebrand that didn’t just change the logo—it realigned the entire company. He’s on a mission to avoid being one of those marketing people who always has beautiful slides, but ultimately accomplishes nothing. Before Levata, Dave led brand and marketing teams at Salesforce, Adobe, and Mozilla—where he pulled off a revenue turnaround that made the CFO smile (and that never happens). He also founded Flixlab, a global video app, giving him startup scars and some great branding war stories. Dave’s specialty? Cutting through noise, aligning teams around a clear story, and building brands that actually mean something to customers and employees. He’s especially skilled at explaining the importance of brand to non-marketers—getting even the most skeptical engineers and finance folks to buy in. He’s also served on the board of a major SF arts nonprofit and volunteers with The Marine Mammal Center, helping rehabilitate injured sea lions and seals—because building brands isn’t the only kind of rehabilitation he believes in. Dave holds degrees from UC Berkeley (MBA), Stanford (MA in Learning, Design, and Technology), and Ithaca College (BS in Comms), but his true credentials are forged in the chaos of rebrands, product launches, and making the complex feel simple.