Dan Swift

Dan Swift

Director of Sales, LinkedIn Sales Solutions, Financial Services, LinkedIn

Dan Swift

Dan Swift is a Director at LinkedIn and currently leads the Financial Services business unit for LinkedIn Sales Solutions. In his 15 year career as a sales leader and trusted advisor, he has always been passionate about building relationships, finding solutions to problems, coaching people to realize their true potential and guiding people to transform their careers and their lives.

Over the years, he has been fortunate to have worked in London, Sydney and now New York with highly talented people at major corporations such as Thomson Reuters and GE Capital as well as at an incredibly successful start-up organization called Complinet.

His passion for building relationships has led him to LinkedIn which is the world's largest professional networking website with more than 259 million members worldwide. New members are signing up to LinkedIn at a rate of approximately 2 new members per second. Our vision is to make the world's professionals more productive and successful and we do this by helping companies Hire, Market and Sell.

Dan is incredibly proud to lead the Financial Services business unit for LinkedIn Sales Solutions. His teams are responsible for helping sales professionals and business development functions leverage LinkedIn to increase productivity in Financial Services, Insurance, Investment Management, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Banking, Accounting, Banking and Capital Markets.

He received his B.A from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England and now lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Sessions

  • Dan Swift Amy McIlwain Martin Gagnon John Flannery

    Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:00pm - 2:00pm

    Social Selling

    • Dan Swift, Director of Sales, LinkedIn Sales Solutions, Financial Services, LinkedIn
    • Amy McIlwain, President, Financial Social Media
    • Martin Gagnon, Senior Vice President, Intermediary Business Solutions, National Bank of Canada
    • John Flannery, VP, Online Marketing & Communications, XL Group plc

    One of the biggest missed opportunities in business today is not leveraging LinkedIn on a corporate basis to differentiate you and your financial institution from the competition.  In this sixty-minute workshop, experts from LinkedIn Sales Solutions and senior leaders from leading financial institutions will share their innovative approaches to using LinkedIn to help support sales efforts.  You will learn about the opportunity your institution is missing by not engaging, how to build great profiles that attract prospects to your financial institution whilst deepening relationships with existing clients, how to leverage company connections to eliminate cold calls, and how to stay on top of market movements. Most importantly, you will learn about how to increase sales and reduce redundant and wasted effort by your revenue producers.