David Beckett

David Beckett is an international Pitch Coach, who has spoken at numerous events and conferences around the world, delivering interactive keynotes on pitching.

He is entertaining, full of energy and delivers practical takeaways that the audience can put into place in their next pitch.

David Beckett has trained over 850 Startups to win over €210 Million in investment, working with Accelerators such as Startupbootcamp, ThinkAccelerate, MassChallenge and Rockstart. He’s also trained more than 12,000 people at companies such as Booking.com, Tommy Hilfiger, ING, PwC, Google and IKEA in 27 countries. David is the creator of The Pitch Canvas©, and the author of the book Pitch To Win. He brings all of that experience to all kinds of industries from Tourism and Congresses sales, to Jewelry, Furniture and Banking.

David Beckett began his work life at Canon, where he worked his way up from marketing Assistant to Country Director across a 16 year career. He left the corporate world in 2009, and write a book about Amsterdam. In the following four years, he had five jobs, and was fired from two. This drove him to re-assess his true passion, combining presentation and coaching, and David quickly got connected to the Startup world.

David Beckett | Pitch Coach

He discovered that helping pitchers deal with time pressure fitted him perfectly. He focused ruthlessly on finding ways to help startups and innovators to deliver their message successfully in just a few minutes, and to get the funding and resources they need.

David Beckett is an Englishman, based in Amsterdam, has a wife and two children, and lists running, writing and family(!) as his hobbies.

keynote topics.

• Pitch To Win – how to deliver a time-pressured pitch and win investment, resources and business
• Pitch You – how to pitch yourself as a person at network events, and any public speaking opportunity
• Pitch Everything – the seven elements of a winning pitch, for any industry

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