Episode 7: Ian Moyse Salesforce Career Conversation with ROD. Is Ian the busiest man in cloud? Not only is he the EMEA Sales Director for Natterbox, he is also a Non-Exec Director for numerous cloud companies and bodies. Listen to his story on our latest RODcast.

Lee: Hiya, it's RODcast again with me, Lee Durant. Today's very special guest is Ian Moyse. This is going to be a long introduction because Ian, as you'll find out by listening to this episode, is many things and does many things. A very busy man. He's currently Non-Exec Director for Digital Leadership Associates, who are experts in social media; a company called ZAR, who are a managed cloud and IT services provider; FAST, which is the Federation Against Software Theft, and Assure Data, who are a GDPR training firm.

He's also an advisory board member to SAAS Max Data, an SAS applications platform. He's a governance board member of CIF, which is the Cloud Industry Forum. And he still has time for his main role, which is the EMEA Sales Director at Natterbox - Natterbox being the most integrated Salesforce telephony experience.

This is an interesting episode because Ian talks about his career but also talks about the wider world of Cloud Salesforce and how it's gone since 2001. So, quite a long, in-depth one, but hopefully you'll learn a lot about Ian's experiences of the wider world of Cloud as well as Salesforce, and of course Natterbox.

Hope you guys enjoy it.

Lee: So, Ian, thanks very much for joining us today. How are you doing?

Ian: Good, Lee, thank you for the invite as well.

Lee: No, I appreciate it. You've got to be probably the busiest person we've had on so far because I was thinking initially, "Oh EMEA Sales Director for Natterbox, you’ll be busy enough doing that."

Ian: Yeah.

Lee: But then I noticed you're an advisor and Non-Exec Director, a speaker and presenter. There's so much else you do as well. Could you just do a little introduction on yourself for everyone listening and explain what it is that you currently do. That would be great.

Ian: Sure, the day job, as you quite rightly say, is EMEA Sales Director at Salesforce Cloud Telephony provider Natterbox. So that's the core piece. But around that, over the past number of years, more by accident than setting out to do so, I've ended up involved as a Non-Executive and things like that in industry bodies: Cloud Industry Forum, Federation Against Software Theft, as a Non-Exec at different times and some other firms in and around the Cloud sector. And I speak, I'm a CLAT School Speaker; I speak at a lot of events, and I get asked to blog and social influence for a lot of major corporations in the technology, and specifically the Cloud, sector.

Ian: So, what I've found is, the more you do it, the more you get invited to do it. If you do a good job of providing value and insight to the audience, whether it be at a speaking event or through a blog you've written, other people tend to spot it.

So, I tend to get inbounds every week through social media direct messages, "Oh, do you do this?" or, "Could you help with this." or, "We noticed this, could you do something for us?" Which is all nice, but as you say, time's limited, so it's a bit of a game of shuffling stuff in, and often, I find a podcast like this or a blog comes out and it's four months later because people schedule stuff ahead in their content library. And I've forgotten I've even done it!

Ian: But it's a bit of a game of doing stuff in front of the TV in the evenings or weekends, if you're in between meetings.

Ian: And the great thing about the social side, the input of some of it is, you can do it on the move in a taxi, right? So there's an element of that.

Ian: The hardest thing for me is writing blogs because you have to really give it some thought. I get the ideas quicker than I get the writing it. So I've probably 20 or 30 blog draughts of the headline and a couple of bullets all written out,