Drive engagement in the U.S. marketplace.
I help early-stage technology startups find their voice, their partners and their first customers in America, as an independent, experienced voice alongside your founders and team.
- United States
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Japan
- Hong Kong
- China
Positioning that shows up in the numbers.
Publishers on the ThingLink platform during my time as Chief Marketing Officer.
Fortune brands signed at ThingLink, plus four of the top 10 U.S. newspapers.
Fundraising round guided as Managing Director of ReadWrite Labs / Wearable IoT World.
Sales increase delivered for telecommunications company NetworkIP.
Growth in billings for Middleberg Euro's internet technology and entertainment group, from a team of 8 to 50.
Best Business Campaign of the Year, for Arrowsight, with a Holmes Gold Award nomination.
Strategic initiatives that move a young company forward.
Marketing
Messaging
Partner engagement
Sales
Fundraising
Across artificial intelligence · emerging technology · digital music · interactive media · mental health · pharmaceuticals & biotechnology · e-commerce
An independent voice for founders.
S. Neil Vineberg is an award-winning public relations and marketing strategist with more than three decades of experience helping startups and Fortune 100 companies sharpen their positioning, build visibility, and grow, often at the earliest stages of a company or industry.
Since 1998, Neil has advised technology founders on communications, marketing, business development, and fundraising, mentoring teams from launch through Series A. He mentors pharmaceutical and biotechnology entrepreneurs through Nucleate.
Neil was Group Managing Director and Partner at Middleberg Euro, where he grew the internet technology and entertainment group's billings sevenfold and its team from eight to 50 professionals across New York and San Francisco. Among the extraordinary clients he has had the privilege to work with: Gartner, IBM, Sony, United Airlines, Procter & Gamble, and others.
At Golin/Harris, he helped launch the MP3 digital music industry, working with MP3.com, eMusic, Xing, and MusicMatch. He also developed a $2 million, five-city Sprint Business conference series, whose panelists included Mark Cuban, Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, author Don Tapscott, and MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte.
Neil has worked with dozens of startups and Fortune 100 companies in the U.S., Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. For Dentsu's Tokyo headquarters, a client, he developed U.S. and global projects and conducted market research for Panasonic, working with Dentsu's Tokyo and New York offices.
Alongside his commercial work, Neil was the first Executive Director of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, a global torch relay for peace. At the request of its founder, Sri Chinmoy, he developed and led the Peace Run for 15 years, taking it into more than 150 countries and into thousands of schools, with millions of people taking part, among them Paul McCartney, the Dalai Lama, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What founders and partners say.
Companies get acquired for a variety of reasons, but what NEVER hurts is a bit of positive positioning, messaging, and PR all of which Neil and his posse provided. No one knows where great public relations gets you or how it contributes to your eventual exit, but I know with certainty we (GoodStorm) got acquired because of the PR and positioning Neil so deftly executed. You want the real mojo? … Neil Vineberg!
Vineberg Communications was able to bring a polished, professional and hands-on approach to our public relations objectives. They have provided clear and consistent execution and results. In just one year, the perception of Webshots has gone from one of a dot-com story to a clear category leader.
Neil is one of the most creative, innovative, and hard-working people I've ever met. I partnered with him several years ago to bring ThingLink's technology capabilities to Discovery to enhance our digital product suite. Neil by nature is a leader and a visionary who cares deeply about messaging and the end goal, where he has proven that he can make young organizations successful.
Neil's brilliance lies in his ability to create new relationships and close deals that at first seemed impossible. He is able to foresee coming opportunities and act on them with sharp and quick decisions without losing focus on the original objective. He is a great mentor, and I learned most of my hands-on marketing skills from him.
Some of the extraordinary clients I've had the privilege to work with.
We are defined by the company we keep.
- IBM
- Gartner
- United Airlines
- Sony
- Dentsu
- Sprint
- Procter & Gamble
- McDonald's
- Coca-Cola
- Texas Instruments
- GigaOM
- GigaOM Research
- GigaOM Structure Data
- ThingLink
- Webshots
- eMusic
- MP3.com
- MusicMatch
- Amplifier
- ReadWrite
- Arrowsight
- Network IP
- Jaiku
- GoodStorm
- Meru Health
- Lifeline Ventures
- New York Biotechnology Association
- ThreeFold
- UNICEF
- UNDP
- United Nations
- Universal Music Group
- Discovery Communications
- Nike
- Microsoft
- American Express
- Digitas
- Forbes
- The Washington Post
- Condé Nast
- Groupon
- CBS Interactive
Work that is bigger than a campaign.
The Peace Run
First Executive Director of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, the global torch relay for peace. At the request of founder Sri Chinmoy, Neil developed and led it for 15 years, from the first torch lighting in New York in 1987 into 150+ countries, with millions of people carrying the torch and students in thousands of schools. Milestones included the launch on NBC's Today show, work with Ted Turner at the United Nations, presenting the Peace Torch to Mikhail Gorbachev in New York City, and presenting it to Mother Teresa in Rome. Participants included Paul McCartney, the Dalai Lama, Clarence Clemons, Carl Lewis, Carly Simon, Narada Michael Walden, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. peacerun.org
Today's Youth Asia
Advisor since 1997 to this Kathmandu-based organization dedicated to educating and giving voice to young people in Nepal and the broader Asian region.
Speaking, writing & music
Speaker at the Producers Guild of America, Billboard Future of Sound, Macworld, SF MusicTech Summit and PR Summit. Published in MarketingProfs, Midem and The Age of Conversation. Studied music theory and composition at the Manhattan School of Music; member of the Recording Academy.
Let's get your story to market.
Tell me what you're building and where you want to be heard. I'll reply personally.