A co-founder of SweetBeam Networks, Mr. Gates is responsible for corporate marketing as well as marketing and design services for the company’s hotel and resort clients.

Mr. Gates is a global marketer with over 15 years of experience driving industry-leading innovation and rigorous operational excellence in marketing organizations at worldwide, pan-regional and country levels. 

Prior to SweetBeam, Mr. Gates founded and managed BrandOperative, a consultancy focused on delivering pragmatic solutions for brand activation and marketing program management for world-leading brands including HP and Kodak.

Mr. Gates held leadership marketing and advertising positions within Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1997 to 2007, with both EMEA and worldwide responsibilities.  He was instrumental in HP’s “One Voice” initiative to harmonize and reposition the HP brand, drove the most awarded EMEA advertising campaign, built the first leveraged marketing organization and global agency network, and helped HP rapidly accelerate to #1 in the PC category.

Prior to HP, Mr. Gates worked for Sommer-Allibert in both France and the UK, where he developed unique got-to-market models and a core furnishings product line that has become a category classic in the hospitality industry.

 

Mr. Gates is a citizen of both France and the USA.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA.  He lives with his family near Grenoble, France.