Jon G. Weisblatt
Jon Weisblatt is a proven leader in the marketing and communications fields. He is an energetic team player who regularly demonstrates results-oriented leadership, analytic prowess and strategic communications capabilities. Jon’s strengths include an entrepreneurial spirit, ability to quickly grasp and net out complex business issues, turn those issues into messages that will resonate in the market, focus on results, positive attitude, and a relationship-oriented approach to winning.
With more than 15 years of hands-on marketing and public relations experience across the United States, Jon has worked with such industry-leading high-tech companies as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, SAP, Microsoft and VMware to develop global go-to-market strategies, partner marketing programs and media campaigns that have led to market leadership.
For the past 10 years, Jon has been the Dell employee tapped to lead high-profile projects across the company. Throughout this period, he has worked closely with Dell’s most senior executives and has been regularly recognized as a significant contributor to business results. Past successes have included the launch and sustaining media program around the Dell Precision Workstation and PowerConnect networking businesses, media campaigns around the Dell Services organization, and the most successful customer reference program that Dell has ever delivered.
In 2006, Jon was asked to position Dell as a leader in the emerging Green IT space. Leading a team, Jon worked with global customers, product development teams, industry partners and corporate functions to create a leadership story for Dell and deliver it to market. The success and visibility of this work led to the integration of “green” content in every product marketing program from Dell, and ultimately the creation of a focused Data Center Infrastructure business unit. Jon continues to actively help Dell in Green IT in an expanded role, driving marketing programs for related solutions that include virtualization, systems management and flexible computing.
Jon is the Dell representative on the Board of Directors for the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, working closely with colleagues at Google, Intel, Pacific Gas & Electric, Lenovo and other industry-leading companies. Jon actively serves as a media spokesperson on green and power/cooling-related initiatives.
Prior to joining Dell, Jon had a history of delivering successful strategies and programs for clients, from his work in Washington, DC with Sprint Spectrum and the US Mint, and in San Francisco for clients such as Hewlett-Packard’s PC and Workstation divisions. Jon also worked as an opposition researcher in Washington during the 1994 election cycle.
Outside of work, Jon enjoys water-skiing, travel, and spending time with wife Karen and their two children, Ethan and Eliana.