Curriculum vitae

PROFILE

Colin Temple
Senior product and data leader
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Head of Product @ Napkyn
MA, Philosophy

I’m a senior leader with over two decades of experience working in cross-functional roles spanning product, data engineering, software development, marketing and business development.

Driven by a desire to solve interesting problems, I have a diverse set of skills across the areas I’ve worked in, with particularly deep knowledge in the areas where I spend the most time.


EXPERIENCE

23 years of experience

I lead Product at Napkyn, a provider of digital analytics and media solutions for medium and large enterprises.

I work in a fairly small consultancy that’s part of a large agency, within a collective of businesses and a holding company. We navigate large, complex customer and vendor relationships as a smaller team.

Over the years, I’ve worked in organizations ranging from one to a few thousand people.

Napkyn

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Since 2010

Head of Product / VP, Product

2019 – Present

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At Napkyn, I lead creating and augmenting our software and services offerings in digital analytics and media for market. I drive the development of our proprietary software and work with a talented team to iteratively improve our services, and how we sell and deliver them.

I was one of Napkyn’s first employees in 2010, and have worked with many smart people here to help build up this organization into one of Google’s most trusted Google Marketing Platform sales and service partners. In 2021, Napkyn was acquired by Kepler Group, joining its organization to further expand our resources, opportunities and reach.

I also sit on Kepler’s product team to extend the reach of our capabilities to our parent and sister companies, and bring new capabilities from the group to Napkyn customers.

Director, Analytics Solutions

2017-2019

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Product Manager, Development Team Lead

2013-2017

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Senior Analyst

2010-2013

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Logical Style

Founder

2019-Present

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XAdvance

Founder

2003-2010

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Sitebrand

Web Marketing Specialist

2007

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N-able Technologies

Webmaster, Web Marketing Specialist

2001-2007

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EDUCATION

A practiced thinker

Philosophy isn’t always presented as a marketable career choice, but central to it (especially logic, on which I focused) is the practice and exploration of how to think reliably. Universal in application, being able to think critically is especially essential to success in business, as it is in designing products or writing code.

Master of Arts, Philosophy

University of Western Ontario

2013


Honours Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy

University of Ottawa

2008-2012

As part of a broad philosophical training, I progressively focused in on logic, set theory and related philosophy. I also completed two graduate-level courses and served as a teaching assistant during my undergraduate study.

I graduated magna cum laude, made the Dean’s Honour List in 2012, and served two terms as VP of Communications in the Undergraduate Philosophy Student Association.



INDUSTRY SKILLS

Connecting data, tech & business

My career has consistently placed me as a leading technologist in marketing contexts, which has led to a diverse set of skills. My unique strengths come from understanding how to use them together.

Digital Analytics

Since 2001

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Marketing & Business Development

Since 2001

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Software Development

Since 2001

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Cloud & Data Engineering

Since 2012

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Product Management

Since 2013

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Leadership

Since 2013

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CERTIFICATIONS

A Google expert

As a leader at a full-stack Google Marketing Platform sales and service partner, and Google Cloud services partner, I’ve learned a few things about those products—and taken a few tests to prove it.

The skills associated with Google Cloud, in particular, translate well to other cloud platforms, where the underlying open source software is typically very similar, if not the same.

Google Cloud

Professional Machine Learning Engineer

2023-2025

Professional Data Engineer

2023-2025

Professional Cloud Database Engineer

2023-2025


Google Marketing Platform

Google Analytics

2016-2024

Google Display & Video 360

2022-2024

Google Campaign Manager 360

2022-2024