Jabba

Founder

Alistair Davis - Voice over Artist

Acting
Voice acting and voice overs
Radio and Television voice overs
Voice on hold 
Explainer video voice overs
American Accent Voice overs
British Accent Voice overs
Animation Voice overs

As a professional voice artist, I have represented some well -known local and international brands and have done well over 1500 voice overs to date.

Previous clients include: Outsurance, Checkers, Men’s Health, Virgin Atlantic, FOX TV, DSTV, Sanlam, Nespresso, SPAR, GAME and John Dory’s to name a few. I have also had work published on National Geographic.

Accents include: Standard American, Bronx, American Deep South, London Cockney, English Received Pronunciation, Standard English, Welsh, Irish, Northern Irish, Scottish, Australian, Kiwi, Jamaican, Italian, French, Spanish, Mexican

Voice Artist and Actor

Green Power Energy Solutions

I head up Sales and Marketing within Green Power also focusing on strategy and new and innovative ways to deliver better products, sales tools and more value to our client base.

Sales and Marketing Director:								______

•	Revenue of circa R1.3 million per month.
•	Responsible for managing the Green Power direct sales team of 10 members, target setting, compensation plans, quoting and sales forecast management.
•	Responsible for soft skills coaching of the sales staff so they can communicate the company’s value clearly.
•	Responsible for demand generation 
•	Responsible for branding, website and corporate identity

Sales and Marketing Director

Rocela

Rocela(www.rocela.com) was formed to provide a unique, independent service for Oracle clients looking to improve the way they procure, manage and deliver, Oracle based projects. Essentially, Rocela is a management consultancy that provides Software Asset Management(SAM) solutions to FTSE 500 companies. Rocela has won numerous awards for innovation and was 2nd in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2007. 

Client Director:										   	  

•	£500K annual profit margin target for current fiscal year(ends August 31st 2008). 
•	Responsible for account managing the likes of Diageo, Reed Elsevier, Barclays, ITV, Clifford Chance, Hilton, Sainsburys etc.
•	Responsible for managing a team of delivery consultants to deliver Rocela consultancy solutions
•	Responsible for demand generation in accounts via partners like HP, IBM and Oracle.
•	Responsible for managing intricate 3 ways relationships between client, Oracle and Rocela in the context of a software licence audit. Often times brought in to resolve non-compliance conflicts.

New accounts won: Barclays, Reed Elsevier, Sainsburys, Clifford Chance, Siemens AG, British American Tobacco, Siemens Energy Services

Account Manager

NCS London

Oracle Certified Advantage partner based out of London (www.ncsltd.com). NCS focuses on reselling Oracle technology, services, support and consulting. NCS also resells Netsuite (www.netsuite.com), a hosted ERP, CRM/ eCommerce platform. Value add services include virtual DBA service, telephone support and excellent skills in Oracle technology.

Key Account Manager:										                                                                                                     

•	£25K Monthly margin responsibility for existing accounts and new business within M25 corridor.  Working closely with Oracle account managers to close licence and consulting deals in Oracle technology.
•	In charge of rebranding NCS brand with advertising agency.
•	Responsible for setting up new partnerships for revenue generating opportunities e.g. FMI for Business Objects Consulting.
•	Responsibility for marketing and demand generation through seminars, Google, Yahoo! and Oracle publications.

Oracle

Account Management – Small Medium Enterprises:                               May 2005 – Jan 2006

•	Oracle Middleware revenue responsibility for the UK Small Medium Business (SMB) market, in excess of £600K. 
•	In charge of developing a strategy and execution plan to address the designated vertical account sectors with all available resources such channel partners, marketing, internal sales and independent solution vendors.
•	Responsible for identifying and working with prospects, to develop joint opportunities and define skills competence of internal sales and resellers.

Leave of absence from Oracle: 				                       June 2004 – May 2005
I travelled through South America and New Zealand. Completed Spanish courses in Venezuela and Argentina, recorded own music in Argentina and surfed the coast of Brazil!                                                                                                        

Middleware Business Dev. for Strategic Accounts & Public Sector:    June 2003 – May 2004

•	Oracle Middleware revenue responsibility for UK strategic accounts and public sector, in excess of £3,500,000. Accounts included RBOS, HSBC, BAE, Vodafone etc
•	Executed business planning through resource allocation, territory planning, budget setting and team review sessions. 
•	Responsible for coaching sales reps in product positioning and sales execution 

Middleware Account Management Oracle UK:                                Sept 2002 – May 2003

•	Oracle Middleware revenue responsibility for UK internal sales organisation in excess of £3,000,000
•	Developing marketing messages and collateral to support sales activities e.g. launch of new Java Edition and BEAT BEA campaign..
•	Transfer and coaching of sales people, partners on Oracle’s application server sales strategy.
Application Sales Account Manager - Irish market                              July 2001 – Aug 2002
Internal Account Manager, Dublin - Anglophone African market:        Aug 1998 – Jun 2001

Solutions Sales Specialist

Speaking and presenting expert for tech professionals Trusted by more than 6000 at SAP, Salesforce & Google.

Selling ERP isn’t selling SaaS. So why are you marketing it like it is?

If you’ve ever sat through a sales call with an agency that promised “pipeline” but delivered crickets, you already know the problem.

Selling ERP is hard. Long cycles. Complex buying committees. Stakeholders who live in spreadsheets, not LinkedIn. Most sales & marketing agencies don’t get this—and it shows.

I do. 

Together with my team, we have worked across the SAP ecosystem—*including SAP themselves*—to help partner sellers and SAP sales teams build real pipeline in tough markets.

Since 2017, we’ve enabled over 6,000 tech professionals globally, built and executed 750+ outbound campaigns, and helped both SAP partners and internal teams sharpen their outbound, master discovery, and win complex deals.

Here’s how we help:

Demand generation - tailored to ERP buying behaviors (not SaaS fantasyland).
Sales enablement - grounded in buyer psychology, not recycled PowerPoint.
BDR/AE coaching - done-for-you outreach, so your team learns while they sell.
SAP-funded solutions, available through the Partner Benefits Catalog.

We know SAP’s culture. We know the SAP stack. We know what it takes to break into enterprise accounts—because we’ve done it over and over again.

Whether you're a partner or SAP seller—if you're struggling to build outbound muscle, book meetings, or qualify complex deals—Jabba.io is your unfair advantage.

Let’s help your team sell like humans again.

"[𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠] 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 1 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞." - 𝐆𝐚𝐲𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐮𝐫𝐭, 𝐒𝐀𝐏

Ready to grow revenue? Let's chat!

Contact:

Schedule a call: https://calendly.com/meetjabba/15min?back=1&month=2024-09

Email: alistair@jabba.io

Alistair Davis

8 Seconds 2 Connect

When C-Suite communicate, they need to send a message that is:

Simple
Impactful
Emotional
Resilient
Relateable
Actionable 
Motivating
Strategic
Risk-free
Scalable
Transferable

Most verbal communication, a presentation, a pitch, and public speaking are none of the above.

Yet, when leaders communicate with a combination 
visual + verbal.

The complex becomes simple without losing its power.



If you support your C-Suite with their public speaking. And your goal is to save time and increase impact, let's have a call.


I can share how I supported the C-Suite at 2 of the 3 BIG German car brands, 2 of the major luxury fashion brands and one of the BIG social media platforms.

ThisCityArt (TCA)

Ongoing art projects that are designed to create new work, host pop up shows and use social media to share ideas. #InvisibleExhibition

Graphic Artist

Mountains of Imagination (MoI)

Startup Pitch Training 1000’s of startups in China.
Chinaccelerator
Plug And Play China
Startup Grind Beijing
AngelHack 
Dulwich College Beijing Launchpad Entrepreneurship Competition

Pitch Consulting, content creation, content management & slide design for senior leadership.
Yodo1 Mobile Games C-Round Raise Deck
Ofo CEO conference speech
VW CMO conference talk.
Cartier China CEO
Dior China CEO
The VW Group board of directors
Audi A.I.R China 
Mercedes China HR C-Suite
Amazon China 
CTVS 
Dulwich College Beijing
Ivy Education Group 
Daystar Academy

Corporate presentation training how to restructure and simplify slide content and refine the message.
The NBA China
The VW Group China
Google SH
BMW
British Embassy Beijing
Districom
Brunswick PR

Higher education pitch training.
EF Education first
NYU Shanghai 
Tsinghua University Beijing
Schwarzman Scholar

Conferences & events speaker.
WeWork
British Chamber of Commerce Beijing
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
SDC The University Partnership Denmark & China

WheelsPlusWings

I am lucky enough to be in the founding group of awesome people who set up wheelspluswings and continue to help give children and their families improved access to mobility. 

Spend 2 mins and like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WheelsplusWings

Creative Director & Founding Member

 BACA / UAL

Teaching Chinese students graphic design & communication skills with group and individual projects using paper-pencil and smartphones

Lecturer Visual Communications Graphic Design

PAE Media

Branded Content Creative Director
VW Group Brand integration in Man Of Tai Chi feature film. 
VW group car placement and integration into Hollywood movie, pitching to movie executive producer and VW brand managers.

A Century with Cars.
Mercedes Benz branded content 12 episodes China TV show. Leading the research team and managing the regular client presentation updates.

VW lifestyle TV show, developing the concept and managing the regular client presentation updates.

Creative Director

BCTT

Gung Ho Pizza 
Pre-launch brand story presentation, working with co-founders to develop brand message and vision.

TEDxBeijing Speaker & Speaker coach
Coaching TedxBeijing speakers with the performance and story structure.

Pecha Kucha Speaker x2 

Be Open
Creative director and co-director of eight band-content online films for Peugeot China, for the car launch of the Peugeot 208cc, working with blind photographers.

Freelance Creative Director

Advertising creative director, within two months of working in advertising, I came up with the concept for a NIKE Olympic event, and I was leading the launch of a car. China provides wild opportunities.

Mercedes A Symphony of Ice and Snow, head of the post-production.

NIKE Basketball Beijing Olympics 2008, creative director, concept development and strategical alignment.

Peugeot 207 China launch creative director, concept development.

VW beetle ATL ad campaign creative director.

Creative director

Raffles Design Institute

Is how I arrived in Beijing and how I met and taught young Chinese students new design skills and creative approaches. 

I now know some of those students have gone on to own restaurant brands, become DJ/Promoters and work as part of the design teams at international schools, which is really exciting for China and world's future.

Teaching Graphic Design and Animation

Spiral Productions

Illustrator and animator, concept development, client pitches. 
Science museum London
Explore @Britisol 
Dubai Children's City
Singapore science centre
Imperial War Museum London

Designer / Illustrator / Animator

Is public speaking part of your BD strategy? I will make sure you are the best speaker at the event 🐊 More influence = more opportunities = more revenue 🤼‍♀️ Intentional communication 🐊 Certified Crocodile Wrestler

The CEO walked into the meeting room and stopped at the doorway.

He looked surprised

"This looks...different," he said.

He walked over to the whiteboard covered with bits of paper.

20 minutes before, I printed out six pages of the first version of his script. 

I cut out the paragraphs and shuffled them like a magician doing a magic trick. 

I then stuck them to the whiteboard.

He was now reading some of them out.

"I like this", he repeated. "I like this a lot."

Within a few minutes, he had 8-10 paper strips in his hand.

We sat down, and I made a new document.

I copied and pasted the sections he had selected into a second script version.

We then made this version 02 script flow in his words. 

In less than 30 minutes, we were done.

He leaned back and read the script out.

He smiled, satisfied.

"Email me a copy." 

He stood and headed to the door.

He paused on the way out, turned and said, "This was good; I've never worked like this before. Nice job"

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Common problem = C-Suite keynotes have too much education and not enough inspiration

Solution = Stories with emotion, stakes, drama and success 

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How to do this?

Trust the process
Bring a fresh perspective 
Make the time 

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I have written presentions for the head of HR at Mercedes China when they spoke to 2000 people 

Visualized the keynote for The VW China CMO when they spoke at a non-automotive conference 

Managed the presentation build for the Cartier CEO China when the management team headed to a global annual update meeting 

I have pitched creative to Hollywood A-listers 

Written the talks for Chinese tech CEOs speaking at APEC

Coached Tech CEOs on their product launches

Coached Tech CFOs on how to deal with different speaking opportunities

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The key to success starts with mindset 

🟥 Do you have a growth mindset?

🟧 What are your goals?

🟨 What message / story will reach the goals?

🟦 How do you perform?

🟩 Do you even need slides? 

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Start with red not green.

 If you want public speaking to be your executive strength I can share more case studies on a call.







Martin Barnes

The magic of this podcast episode is how Martin Reeves, Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin talk and share ideas about imagination, business, strategy, mindset, the past, the future and AI. 

It never looses focus. 

It's very motivating.

It's timeless.

This is that part that inspired me to sketch:

“the sticky note was to remind me to ask certain questions. And one of the questions was, what's the real question? Because things present themselves as a problem, right?

You know, the CEO says, please help me to do a 15% cost reduction. But unless you ask, yeah, but what's the real problem there? Like, why would you want to do that?”

Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company: How Do You Strategize in the AI Era? – with Martin Reeves, Head of BCG’s Think Tank, 1 Oct 2025

Martin Barnes 

Agency owners, do you get ROI when you speak at conferences, events and podcasts? If you want more, then let's talk and ensure you get the maximum ROI from your time in the spotlight.

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