Danny Hayasaka 🎥🎧

At Mago, I lead our North American market strategy and global brand presence, driving our wireless content sharing and conferencing platform adoption across enterprise, education, and public sector markets. Mago empowers people and organizations to 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭, and 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 without friction. Mago is hardware and platform agnostic and works with existing displays and meeting room systems. My role bridges strategic leadership, hands-on business development, and thought leadership to position Mago as a trusted partner for modern collaboration. Key Responsibilities & Achievements • Market Expansion: Building Mago’s presence in the Americas through strategic partnerships, reseller networks, and direct enterprise engagements. • Global Marketing Leadership: Overseeing brand strategy, campaigns, and content that position Mago as the intuitive, secure, and scalable choice for wireless collaboration. • Sales Enablement: Creating tools, comparison guides, and training resources that equip partners and sales teams to win in competitive environments. • Enterprise Advisory: Collaborating with IT decision-makers, AV integrators, and procurement leaders to implement flexible strategies for hybrid work and learning. • Thought Leadership: Representing Mago at industry events, webinars, and podcasts to share market insights, best practices, and deployment successes. • Product Advocacy: Providing real-world feedback to product teams to shape features and ensure solutions align with customer needs. Focus Areas ✔ Wireless content sharing & conferencing solutions ✔ Enterprise & education AV strategies ✔ Certified devices & platform interoperability (Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex) ✔ Channel partner enablement & training ✔ Real-world testing & proof-of-concept deployments

I lead strategy, content creation, and go-to-market execution for professional-grade communication and collaboration solutions. I help businesses make informed purchasing decisions by producing real-world demos, training content, and partner-driven campaigns. Recently, I’ve expanded into a direct sales role, working closely with large enterprise clients to rebuild and grow our headset and UC business. Key Focus Areas: • Thought Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert in business communications, specializing in headsets, webcams, speakerphones, and video conferencing solutions from Logitech, Jabra, HP Poly, Yealink, EPOS, Shokz, and others. • Content Creation: Script, film, edit, and publish product reviews, mic tests, and real-world demos (30,000+ YouTube subscribers) across environments like open offices, homes, airports, and cafes. • Sales Enablement: Develop training decks, comparison tools, and messaging that equip sales teams to uncover whitespace opportunities and align tech to use cases across SMBs to large enterprises. • Campaign Strategy: Drive integrated campaigns using HubSpot, email, SEO, and social to support product launches, bundles, and promotions across multiple channels. • Partner Collaboration: Engage directly with OEMs and channel partners for content, testing, webinars, and co-marketing. Regularly film at trade shows and partner HQs. • Business Development Support: Contribute to reactivation and acquisition efforts with targeted content, landing pages, and demo-focused campaigns to generate leads and meetings. • Tech Testing & Reviews: Lead product evaluations and hands-on testing to ensure accurate content and customer recommendations based on real-world performance. • Diversity & Procurement: Promote our status as a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and support enterprise procurement through integration with SAP Ariba, Coupa, and ServiceNow.

Building an awesome team that gets sh*t done and has fun doing it! Strong focus on following trends in business voice, video and collaboration landscape along with emerging technologies.

Assist enterprise customers in identifying and selecting compatible devices to help them improve and enhance their voice & video communications and collaboration. Provide product & sales training to sales force. Operate in conjunction with UC platform providers, System Integrators and UC device manufacturers on closing UC opportunities. Develop marketing strategies with our Partners to discover new UC opportunities. Business Developement Group Manager

Manage Sales Team of 20+ Sales Reps, Branch Reps, Contract Accounts and Govt Dept. Work with company owners, Staff (VP's), Director of Sales to achieve company sales and profit quotas. Specialize in endpoints/devices for Unified Communications platforms from Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya and IBM. The devices being: headsets, telephones, audio and video conferencing endpoints.

Cultivated Customer Database from new and existing accounts that generated $2M annually. Did a lot of cold-calling, sent email blasts, and worked a lot with our partners (Plantronics, Jabra, Sennheiser, VXi, Polycom, ClearOne, SciTec, Teledex, Telematrix, etc) to identify opportunities and close sales. Met and Exceeded Sales/Profit Quotas monthly and annually Kept up to date with all the latest products/services plus maintained knowledge of legacy and discontinued products.

Received, Stocked inventory. Performed Monthly manual inventory. Picked, packed, QC'd, manifested customer orders.

The Hello Direct, Inc. and Call One, Inc. marketing teams help SMBs make more informed purchasing decisions when it comes to audio and video solutions for personal and group use. We test multiple audio and video devices from leading, and less-established brands and share our results via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/calloneinc One size does not fit all when it comes to communications technology and devices. We help business, and IT leaders identify the right technologies based on team members’ work styles and workspaces. How can we help? https://www.hellodirect.com/

I was stationed mainly in Ft Sill, OK with the 47th Combat Support Battalion, 47th Field Hospital. Deployed twice to Egypt. Special M4 Identifier in Blood Banking. Earned Driving Badge, Sharpshooter Badge, and prestigious Expert Field Medical Badge. Last duty station was Ft. Bliss, TX with William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX.

Studied Psychology

Completed EMT-I Course