Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CMO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CMO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Development & Chief Marketing Officer of Adobe
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand, corporate communications and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, marketing campaigns, public relations, social media and field marketing programs to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s internal communications and community relations efforts, including the Adobe Foundation, which funds philanthropic initiatives around the world. Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. At Intel, Lewnes helped build global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands. In 2000, Lewnes was elected to the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement. In 2010, she was honored with a Changing The Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY). Lewnes holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
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Stacey Politi
CMO of MainStreet
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Sarah Franklin
President & CMO, Salesforce of Salesforce
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Kurt Heinemann
Chief Marketing Officer of Cockroach Labs
Kurt Heinemann is Chief Marketing Officer @ Marketwired.
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About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.
Shanee Ben-Zur
Chief Marketing and Growth Officer of Crunchbase
Shanee has been the CMO of Crunchbase since 2018. She is a customer-obsessed marketing & growth leader with full-stack marketing experience. Shanee specializes in building high-performance teams that deliver measurable results from revenue and pipeline to brand awareness and user acquisition.
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About Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data.
Scott Scheper
Founder, Vice Chairman & CMO of XYO
Scott has worked on many exciting ventures with exceptionally talented people, including the Co-founder of Uber. Scott’s first “real boss” was Arie Trouw, who hired Scott in 2009 during an economic recession, when very few companies were hiring, and even fewer were starting companies. What began as a Facebook app startup with four guys and a ping pong table, grew to over 200 employees and 9-figures in revenue in less than two years. In 2013 Scott took a break from corporate life to pursue the dream of working remotely on a laptop while sipping tropical drinks on the beaches of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (U.S.). During this period, Scott launched Greenlamp, a programmatic advertising agency specializing in direct-response media buying. The agency was fully automated; built entirely using algorithms to manage the campaigns. The team was built with project-basis software engineers, and had only one full-time employee: that being Scott. The advertising campaigns were managed by an automated system, nicknamed “Stewie” (Family Guy). 24-hours a day, Stewie managed everything, making automated tweaks to the advertising campaigns. He even emailed Scott to chat about the changes made (Stewie’s emails included signature Stewie lines). In its first year of operation, Greenlamp generated over $12M in revenue. When not working, Scott can be found reading books by his idols, Gary C. Halbert and Charlie Munger, or sometimes even outside with friends and family in San Diego, California.
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About XYO: XYO is a decentralized crypto-location oracle network aiming to provide accurate location data from cars to smartphones.
Monica Ho
CMO of SOCi
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About SOCi: SOCi is a centralized platform for multi-location marketers to reach and engage local customers.
Denise Karkos
Chief Marketing Officer of TD Ameritrade
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About TD Ameritrade: TD Ameritrade is a finance company in online stock trading.
Andrea Mallard
CMO of Pinterest
Andréa has built a career across the globe building disruptive and innovative brands. A former journalist, entrepreneur, and designer, Andréa focusses on finding the best ways to inspire our participants and partners to re-imagine what great healthcare looks and feels like. Over the past 15 years, Andréa has enjoyed the challenge of living and working in ten cities, five countries, and three languages. She holds a MSc. from the London School of Economics.
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About Omada Health, Pinterest, Unu motors: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Jason Jhonson
CMO of Improbable
Jason is Improbable’s Chief Marketing Officer. In this role he is responsible for driving the adoption of their SpatialOS platform with effective go-to-market strategies and building the company’s brand as the leading distributed-computing startup in the world.
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Danielle White
CMO & Director of Marketing of Greyfinch
Danielle White is the Strategic Projects Manager at Rock Dental Brands.
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About Greyfinch, Rock Dental Brands: Greyfinch is an orthodontic practice management software.
Dan Slivhanovski
Chief Marketing Officer of DoubleVerify
Dan is responsible for the DoubleVerify brand globally and oversees all company and product marketing, and sales empowerment efforts. Prior to joining DV, Dan served as both COO and CMO at RhythmOne (acquired by Tremor), where he helped transform the company into a leading, independent programmatic platform for video and connected TV. Previously, Dan served as Executive Vice President of HNW Inc, a strategy consultancy focused on the financial services and luxury sectors. He brings over 20 years of senior operating, strategy and marketing experience to his role as CMO. Dan earned his B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Julian Price
Chief Marketing Officer of vTime Limited
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About vTime Limited: vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.
Josh Grau
Chief Marketing Officer of Yext
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About Northwestern University, Stanford University, Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Andrew Childs
Vice President – Marketing (Chief Marketing Officer) of Paychex
Andy Childs joined Paychex as the vice president of marketing in February 2011. In this role, Childs leads the marketing, corporate development, and strategic planning functions for the company. A senior executive with more than 30 years of marketing and business development experience, Childs previously held marketing leadership positions at Pitney Bowes, Mercer, and ADP. Early in his career, he served as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company. Childs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Harvard University.
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About Paychex, Vitruvia Consulting Corporation: Paychex together with its subsidiaries, provides payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for all businesses.
Rob Gonzalez
Co-Founder & CMO of Salsify
Rob Gonzalez co-founded Salsify, Inc., in 2012 and serves as its Vice President of Business Development and served as its Vice President of Marketing. Previously, Rob Gonzalez ran inbound marketing and product management for Cambridge Semantics, another Boston-area startup.
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About Salsify: Salsify empowers brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.
Michelle Huff
CMO of UserTesting
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About UserTesting: UserTesting is an on-demand human insight platform designed to improve customer insights.
Gus Carlson
EVP & Chief Marketing Officer of Thomson Reuters
Gus’ relationship with the company dates back to 2006, when he joined The Thomson Corporation as Chief Communications Officer. Two years later, as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, he oversaw the creation and launch of the Thomson Reuters brand, which debuted among the top 50 most valuable global brands. Gus has held senior communications positions with Accenture, Standard & Poor’s, Barnes & Noble, PaineWebber and Hill and Knowlton. He is also a former business journalist, having worked as an editor for The New York Times and Miami Herald, where he was a member of the editorial staff awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Andrew and its aftermath in 1992. Gus is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and also attended the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Kevin Marasco
Chief Marketing Officer of Zenefits
Kevin Marasco serves as Chief Marketing Officer for HireVue. Marasco was previously head of Brand & Digital Marketing for San Francisco Bay-based Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), one of the most successful cloud-based enteprise software companies (acquired by Oracle in 2012). During his tenure there, the company tripled its market cap to more than $1.5 Billion. Prior to Taleo, Marasco was also SVP Marketing and Inside Sales at Vurv (formerly Recruitmax), where he led global marketing and sales support to help drive growth exceeding 1,200%. Marasco’s educational background includes executive education at Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of North Florida.
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About Zenefits: Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
Steve Perkins
CMO of Nubeva
Steve Perkins is the Chief Marketing Officer of Nubeva. Steve is responsible for Nubeva’s go-to-market strategy and execution including sales, marketing, brand, channels, and business development. A 27-year veteran in computing, networking and information security, Steve brings extensive knowledge and experience including his role as CMO at Optiv Security where he led all aspect of marketing and communications, and go-to-market strategy, as well as the company’s technology resale and services business lines. Steve has held leading positions in sales, marketing, and business development at Optiv, Accuvant, Aruba Networks, KIKO, Cisco Systems and HP.
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About Nubeva: Nubeva is a cloud security software company that provides decryption solution for real-time, historical or on-demand decryption.
John Orlando
Chief Marketing Officer of Endurance International Group
John currently oversees marketing and sales for Endurance. A strategic and creative marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience in marketing technology, mobile entertainment and marketing services, John has been instrumental in the creation of new businesses, the establishment and enhancement of corporate brands, and the conception and launch of new products. John has held multiple senior executive positions at public companies, including chief marketing officer at Constant Contact, a leading provider of email marketing technology for small businesses, chief marketing officer at Livewire Mobile, a provider of managed mobile entertainment services for mobile operators, and chief marketing officer at NMS Communications Corporation, a provider of value-added mobile services. He also served as president of 2ergo, a mobile marketing company working with large retailers, brands and agencies. He also served as both chairman and vice chairman of the MEF in the Americas. John holds a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.
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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.
Francois Dufour
Acting CMO of Apollo
Francois Dufour is the vice president of global marketing at development, and analytics. He is the senior director of IT and business applications from [Twilio](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twilio), a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API. Prior to Twilio, he held various leadership roles in marketing at [Udacity](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/udacity#/entity) and [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin). Dufour obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Apollo: Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.
Kelli Castellano
Chief Marketing Officer of TigerConnect
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About TigerConnect: TigerConnect is a healthcare collaboration platform that streamlines clinical workflows and systems.
Roark Pollock
Chief Marketing Officer of Gradient Cyber
Roark Pollock is the Chief Marketing Officer at Gradient Cyber.
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About Gradient Cyber, Mission Secure, Ziften Technologies: Gradient is a cybersecurity products and services company that visualizes an organization’s cybersecurity health.
Indus Khaitan
CMO of SirionLabs
Indus Khaitan is the CEO and founder of Quolum and the CMO of SirionLabs. He graduated from Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra.
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About Quolum, SirionLabs: SirionLabs offers a SaaS enterprise contract management (CLM) platform to help enterprises manage the contracting lifecycle.
Lara Hood Balazs
EVP, Chief Marketing Officer & General Manager, Strategic Partner Group of Intuit
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About Intuit, Ridge Ventures: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
David Gibson
CMO of Varonis Systems
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About Varonis Systems: Varonis Systems provides actionable data governance solutions for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and tech companies.
W. Sean Ford
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer, Integration Management Office of LogMeIn
W. Sean Ford is Chief Marketing Officer at LogMeIn.
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About Algorand, LogMeIn, PlanetWatch: LogMeIn provides SaaS-based remote connectivity, collaboration, and support solutions for businesses and consumers.
Hugh Owen
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of MicroStrategy
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About MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy provides enterprise software for business intelligence, mobile intelligence, and network applications.
Byron Connell
CMO of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Wendy Werve
Chief Marketing Officer of Virgin Pulse
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About Virgin Pulse: Virgin Pulse, part of the famed Virgin Group, is passionate about inspiring and engaging employees to live better every day.
Allie Kelly
Chief Marketing Officer of JazzHR
My philosophy is data drives creativity. As a full-stack marketer with experience in b2b and b2c environments, a love for digital, and a passion for international, I pride myself on differentiating and accelerating the growth of brands, at home and around the world. With proven experience defining and driving strategies that strengthen revenue and competitive market position worldwide, I have a track record for identifying growth opportunities and designing and executing impactful, integrated marketing programs that deliver results. Specialties: Multi Channel Marketing; Demand Generation; Revenue Marketing; Lifecycle Marketing; Customer Acquisition; International Marketing; Brand Management; Online Marketing; Digital Strategy; Product Marketing; Go-to-Market Strategy; Content Marketing, Content Strategy, Persona Development; Social Media; Brand Strategy; Tech Brands + Start-up Marketing; Database Marketing, Marketing ROI, Marketing Measurement + Analysis; Web Analytics + Optimization; Marketing Operations; Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Segmentation
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About JazzHR: JazzHR is easy, powerful, and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
Rob Pinkerton
Chief Marketing Officer of Morningstar
Rob Pinkerton serves as a CMO at Morningstar.
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About Morningstar: Morningstar provides independent investment research to investors worldwide.
Arya Barirani
Chief Marketing Officer of GlobalLogic
In his 20+ years of industry experience, Arya Barirani has led marketing teams in some of the most well-known brands in the technology industry, including Symantec, Hewlett Packard, Veritas, Mercury Interactive, and Infoblox. His domain expertise spans multitudes of product and service categories such as DevOps, security, IT management software, storage management, and networking. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Arya was Vice President of Product Marketing at Infoblox, where he drove company and product positioning, as well as global go-to-market, content marketing. Before that, Arya was Senior Director of Global Campaigns / Product Marketing at Symantec, where he created global promotional campaigns for Symantec’s security and storage software portfolio. Using a highly customer-centric approach, Arya specializes in creating differentiated messaging and connecting the dots between brands and buyers. His work integrates the entire spectrum of marketing disciplines and communications channels, including digital, social, web, and traditional media and advertising. Arya lives in Northern California with his wife and two children, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Marketing from the University of Iowa.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Arya Barirani
Chief Marketing Officer of GlobalLogic
In his 20+ years of industry experience, Arya Barirani has led marketing teams in some of the most well-known brands in the technology industry, including Symantec, Hewlett Packard, Veritas, Mercury Interactive, and Infoblox. His domain expertise spans multitudes of product and service categories such as DevOps, security, IT management software, storage management, and networking. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Arya was Vice President of Product Marketing at Infoblox, where he drove company and product positioning, as well as global go-to-market, content marketing. Before that, Arya was Senior Director of Global Campaigns / Product Marketing at Symantec, where he created global promotional campaigns for Symantec’s security and storage software portfolio. Using a highly customer-centric approach, Arya specializes in creating differentiated messaging and connecting the dots between brands and buyers. His work integrates the entire spectrum of marketing disciplines and communications channels, including digital, social, web, and traditional media and advertising. Arya lives in Northern California with his wife and two children, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Marketing from the University of Iowa.
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About GlobalLogic: GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-to-cloud software engineering.
Rick Schultz
Chief Marketing Officer of Databricks
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About Databricks: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Shashi Kiran
Chief Marketing & Product Officer of Aryaka Networks
2019 – Present: CMO, Aryaka Networks 2016- 2019: Chief Marketing Officer, Quali 2015-2016 : Chief Marketing Officer, Appcito (acquired by A10 systems) 2012-2015 : Head, Worldwide Marketing, Cisco (Data Center and Cloud 2010-2012: Sr.Director of Enterprise and Data Center Networking, Cisco
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About Aryaka Networks, Forbes Technology Council: Aryaka Networks provides a network optimization and application acceleration platform that addresses the connectivity needs of enterprises.
Eric Troyer
Chief Marketing Officer of Megaport
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About Megaport: Megaport is a software defined networking company that directly connects enterprises, networks, and services.
Scott Anderson
Chief Marketing Officer of Intermedia
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About Intermedia: Intermedia provides cloud IT services and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Penny Baldwin
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm
Penny Baldwin is a senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In her role, Baldwin leads the company’s marketing efforts worldwide, spanning corporate communications, brand management, product marketing, digital and social marketing, content and creative, thought leadership, positioning and narratives, insights, and analytics.Before joining Qualcomm, Baldwin was vice president and general manager of Intel Global Brand Management & Reputation, responsible for leading all facets of the Intel brand worldwide. In addition, she oversaw Intel partner marketing (including worldwide oversight of the Intel Inside program) and all marketing strategy and execution in support of the New Technology Group which includes VR, merged reality, drones, head and wrist worn wearables, AI, and Intel’s 360-degree Replay technology.Baldwin is a seasoned marketing professional with 30+ years of in-depth expertise spanning agency leadership of Madison Avenue agency brands, global consumer marketing, and brand management for Yahoo!, CMO of global security company McAfee, and global brand management, partner marketing, and new technology group marketing for Intel. She is an inspirational leader of marketing and communications teams, has extensive international marketing experience and is deeply conversant across the full spectrum of marketing disciplines requiring global integration and optimization.Baldwin attended San Francisco State University and studied marketing.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Jim Jackson
Chief Marketing Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Tiffany Xingyu Wang
CMO of Spectrum Labs
Tiffany Xingyu Wang is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Oasis Consortium, a non-profit organization to create a new digital sustainability model for businesses to adopt. She is also the Chief Marketing Officer at Spectrum Labs, a contextual AI platform set to build a safer internet. Tiffany Xingyu is an advisor and investor in blockchain and quantum computing companies. She is a venture partner at Tribe, a Singapore government-backed blockchain accelerator, leading investor relations in the US. She holds two USPTO patents in machine learning applications on marketing. Previously, she led the AI product development of the Data Management Platform at Salesforce.com. Before turning into a tech enterprise leader, she was an award-winning investor across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Her accolades include the Thomson Reuters PFI Awards 2012 and 2014 and the Malaysian Greentech Award. She also advised Southeast Asian governments on investment policies. The global connections and perspectives allow her to build inclusive and diverse teams and cultures now at Oasis Consortium and Spectrum Labs. Tiffany Xingyu is a keynote speaker and expert at the intersection of AI and Trust & Safety, featured by major media, tech conferences, and governmental initiatives. She has been published in Harvard Business Review and Forbes. She also hosts the Brand Safety Exchange podcast, which is a destination for digital user safety thought leaders. The podcast is in the top 10% of podcasts in the world.
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About Association for Computing Machinery, Chief, Oasis Consortium, Spectrum Labs, Stanford University, Tribe Accelerator: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
David Bitton
Co-Founder & CMO of DoorLoop
David Bitton is the Co-Founder and CMO at DoorLoop.
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About DoorLoop: DoorLoop is a rental property management software that offers screening tenants, collects rent, and manages accounting services.
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Brian Bell
Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Alliances of Ping Identity
“Innovation often comes when we pursue ideas with no guaranteed outcome. I’m a big believer in creating a culture that’s comfortable taking risks and experimenting with new ways of doing things. It’s through this experimentation that extraordinary innovation can be achieved.” Brian comes to Ping Identity by way of Zuora, where he served as CMO. At Zuora, he built a world-class team that defined the “Subscription Economy” market and established the company as the leader in the new subscription billing category. Previously, Brian was general manager of the Service & Portfolio Management Business at CA Technologies where he helped transition on-premise application businesses to subscription cloud services. Prior to CA, Brian oversaw marketing efforts at BMC Software, built Remedy Software’s marketing organization to be a leader in IT Service Management, and held business development and product management roles at Extricity and Kao Corporation. Brian also spent several years with the Boston Consulting Group. Brian holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MA from John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and a BA from The University of Pennsylvania.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Aleks Strub
Chief Marketing Officer of Density
Aleks Strub is the CMO at Imperfect Foods.
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About Density: Density builds the technical infrastructure for cities, buildings, and spaces to measure how they’re used.
Melissa Turowsky
CMO of Mercury
Melissa Turowsky is Chief Marketing Officer at Mercury and also works with portfolio companies to refine their marketing strategies.
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About Mercury: Early-stage venture capital firm investing in SaaS, cloud, and data platforms across Middle America.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Partner & Chief Marketing Officer of Shield AI
Gayle is the New York Times best-selling author of two books about the post-9/11 wars, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and Ashley’s War, and an adjunct fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She began writing about entrepreneurship in conflict and post-conflict zones while studying for her MBA at Harvard following a decade covering politics at the ABC News Political Unit. This work from Afghanistan, Rwanda, Liberia, Bosnia and beyond, which earned her the 2006 Dean’s Award, has been published by the World Bank, Harvard Business School, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and CNN, among others. Gayle is a frequent speaker on national security topics, including at the Aspen Security Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, and TED forums, and has given talks at West Point, the Naval Academy, and the National Infantry Museum. From 2006 to 2010 she served as a vice president at the global investment firm PIMCO, where she led public policy analysis during the global financial crisis. A Fulbright Scholar and Robert Bosch Fellow, she is conversant in Spanish, German, French and Farsi.
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About Shield AI: Building the world’s best AI pilot.
Rip Gerber
Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer of Vlocity
Rip Gerber oversees Vlocity’s marketing and ecosystem of partners, alliances and channels. Mr. Gerber has served as a founder and C-level executive at several private and public companies including Nokia, American Express and Deloitte. He has over 20 years of software and cloud experience and was previously founder and CEO of Locaid, the world’s largest API location platform for carriers. He serves on the boards of the CTIA, Aratana (PETX) and Drew School, and is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School. Detailed Bio Below: Rip Gerber is the founder of “Location-as-a-Service” (LaaS) and built Locaid (www.loc-aid.com) into world’s largest cloud platform for telco location data. Locaid now locates over 5 billion connected devices worldwide. Rip is a noted mobile industry visionary, entrepreneur, public company executive, data privacy advocate and international best-selling author. At Nokia, he served as Chief Marketing Officer and head of Ecommerce and Business Development for Intellisync Corporation (NASDAQ: SYNC) the wholly-owned enterprise software division of Nokia (NOK). In less than two years, Mr. Gerber transformed the company and brand from a sputtering consumer product into the worldwide leader in wireless email and mobile software for the enterprise and wireless carrier markets. He was the lead executive in representing the company to shareholders, investment funds, banking and industry analysts, the media and strategic partners. Nokia acquired Intellisync for $510M; Mr. Gerber helped lead a 10X increase in stock value in less than two years. Prior to joining Intellisync, Mr. Gerber served as Managing Director and Group Vice President of Carlson Marketing Group, the $2 Billion subsidiary of Carlson Companies. Mr. Gerber led regional integration of CMG’s acquisitions, notably the Peppers & Rogers Group, and he initiated and led the firm’s technology practice for clients including HP, Intel, Oracle, Xerox and Home Depot. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President for Digitas Inc. (NASDAQ: DTAS) where he helped establish the firm’s B2B division and served on the CMO council, leading strategic marketing programs for Microsoft and Charles Schwab. In both roles Mr. Gerber advised CMOs and senior client executives on strategy, market positioning, customer acquisition and retention, CRM, communications, branding and infrastructure investment. Previously, Mr. Gerber was hired as a key executive for Commtouch Inc. to take the fledging email infrastructure company public, which he did in July 1999 (NASDAQ: CTCH). There he served as Chief Strategy Officer and head of marketing, corporate development as well as divisional general manager, creating an enterprise value of $1.2 billion in less than two years. Prior to that Mr. Gerber served as CEO of @once Inc, an email marketing company he founded, which was acquired by InfoUSA. He has also served as a senior strategy practitioner for Deloitte Consulting and helped build the firm’s Financial Services practice, serving clients such as Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and First Republic Bank. Previously, Mr. Gerber worked as a senior marketing director at American Express, Inc. and as a process engineer for Firestone Tire & Rubber. Early in his career he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Mr. Gerber has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Aratana (PETX), a pharmaceutical company which filed for an IPO and a secondary offering during Rip’s board tenure. Rip also serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the CTIA, the telco industry’s largest industry association. He holds a CIIP (Certified Information Privacy Professional) designation from the IAPP. Mr. Gerber is an international best-selling author and has sold two books to RandomHouse: PHARMA (2007) and KILLER VIRUS (2010). Rip enjoys cycling, running and performing in several bands in the Bay Area. He curates the world’s largest collection of map postcards. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
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About Aratana Therapeutics, CTIA, Vlocity: Vlocity provides industry-specific cloud and mobile software that drives digital transformation for companies.
Christian Hasker
Chief Marketing Officer of Hedera Hashgraph
Christian has two decades of experience in enterprise software in a variety of roles at startups and large companies, including marketing, product management, product marketing, and sales management, and is the Chief Marketing Officer for Hedera. He was previously the Vice-President of Marketing at DataStax, where he was responsible for developer education and open source Apache Cassandra community initiatives during a period of hyper-growth. A Brit by birth, Christian has degrees from the University of Manchester and the London College of Music.
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About Hedera Hashgraph: Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
Anthony Kennada
Chief Marketing Officer of Hopin
Anthony Kennada is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hopin. Prior to Hopin, Anthony was the founding Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight, where he and his team are credited with creating the Customer Success category – a business imperative, profession and software category that helps subscription companies grow sustainably by becoming customer obsessed. By focusing on human first community building, content marketing, live events and creative activations, Gainsight developed a new playbook for B2B marketing that built the brand and fueled the company’s growth. Anthony published that playbook with Wiley in 2019 in a book titled Category Creation: How to Build a Brand that Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love. The book is available now everywhere that books are sold. Prior to Gainsight, Anthony has previously worked at Box, LiveOffice and Symantec, and serves as an investor, advisor and board member to enterprise software startups around the globe.
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About Hopin: Hopin is an event platform provider that connects communities through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events.
Joshua Todd
Chief Marketing Officer of Mindbody
Josh focuses on global marketing, branding, and advertising strategy for Mindbody. With in-depth consumer marketing expertise and a data-driven approach, he has a proven record of successful customer-acquisition initiatives and long-term brand building. Josh brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to his position. Most recently, he served as chief marketing officer for Localytics, a pioneer in the mobile engagement space, helping companies like ESPN, HBO, Comcast, and RunKeeper create deeper relationships with customers through their web and mobile apps. Prior to that, he spent eight years in various leadership roles at Constant Contact, where he led an aggressive customer-acquisition strategy that propelled the company from 50,000 customers to more than 600,000.
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About Mindbody: Mindbody is a wellness experience platform that allows users to find and engage with fitness, beauty, and integrative health services.
Jeffrey K. Rohrs
Chief Marketing Officer of Jobvite
Jeff heads up the global marketing organization for Jobvite. His team focuses on fueling the company’s growth, amplifying customer success, and building the definitive talent acquisition technology brand through insights, experiences, and thought leadership. With over 15 years of SaaS marketing experience, Jeff served as CMO of Yext (NYSE: YEXT) during a period of rapid growth and a successful initial public offering in 2017. He also served as VP of Marketing Insights for Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and VP of Marketing at ExactTarget during their IPO and acquisition by Salesforce in 2013. Jeff received his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Miami University and his J.D. and Master’s in Mass Communication from Boston University.
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About Jobvite: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Sam Fahmy
CMO of WorkFusion
As Lanyon’s SVP of Product Strategy and GM SMB, Sam’s core focus is delivering product superiority and profitable growth across Lanyon’s product portfolio. Prior to Lanyon, Sam led Products, Marketing and Corporate Development at Passkey (now known as Lanyon Passkey), a cloud-based technology provider serving global hotel chains and corporations. Under his leadership, the company grew fivefold in just 8 years — leading to an acquisition by Vista Equity Partners and merger with Lanyon. Before Passkey, he co-founded and served as CEO, Board Member and Chief Products Officer at Bungo, an award-winning innovator in the online collaboration and messaging space. Sam also spent several years in investment banking at global venture and buyouts firm Japonica Partners. He began his career in marketing at Procter & Gamble. Sam has a B.Sc. in Physics from American University, as well as an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He holds several patents, and serves as an adviser to a number of start-ups, entrepreneurs and venture buyout firms.
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About Cvent, WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Mariann McDonagh
Chief Marketing Officer of WorkFusion
Mariann McDonagh is the Chief Marketing Officer at WorkFusion and an Operating Partner at Edison Partners.
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About Edison Partners, Erwin, McDonagh Growth Associates, Tenacity, WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
Sheila Dahlgren
Chief Marketing Officer of Viewpost
Sheila Dahlgren is the CMO at Viewpost.
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About Viewpost: Viewpost helps big businesses streamline payments, eliminate paper checks, and earn cash back on payments to vendors.
Marc Ramos
CMO of SplashBI
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About SplashBI: SplashBI is an enterprise ready business analytics solution
Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek
Chief Marketing Officer of SkillSoft
Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek brings almost 20 years of technology marketing and marketing services experience to WSI. She is responsible for all marketing and communications activities for the professional division of The Weather Company. Prior to WSI, Michelle was head of marketing for Quaero, a data management company, where she helped large media and consumer organizations learn how to make their data work for them, not against them. Michelle has also served in management roles at Harte-Hanks, GN Netcom/Jabra, Kronos, Axis Communications and MicroWarehouse. Contact Michelle at mbb@wsi.com.
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About SkillSoft, WSI Corporation: Skillsoft provides online learning and e-learning solutions for global enterprises, SMEs, governments and educational institutions.
Robin Selden
Chief Marketing Officer of Avast
Robin Selden has been Chief Marketing Office at Avast since October 2015. Prior to Avast, Robin was CMO at NETGEAR, where she was part of the executive team that took the company to the number-one position in the worldwide market for home Wi-Fi and smart home video monitoring. Before joining NETGEAR she was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Dolby, and her last position at Logitech was Vice President and General Manager of the Streaming Media Business Unit. Robin has over 20 years’ experience in general management and marketing in technology, consumer products, business products, and mobile industries. Robin has served on the Board of Advisors for Santa Clara University Graduate School of Business and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS with honors from California Polytechnic State University.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Robin Selden
Chief Marketing Officer of Avast
Robin Selden has been Chief Marketing Office at Avast since October 2015. Prior to Avast, Robin was CMO at NETGEAR, where she was part of the executive team that took the company to the number-one position in the worldwide market for home Wi-Fi and smart home video monitoring. Before joining NETGEAR she was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Dolby, and her last position at Logitech was Vice President and General Manager of the Streaming Media Business Unit. Robin has over 20 years’ experience in general management and marketing in technology, consumer products, business products, and mobile industries. Robin has served on the Board of Advisors for Santa Clara University Graduate School of Business and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BS with honors from California Polytechnic State University.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Eric Olson
Chief Marketing Officer of Quickbase
Eric Olson is Chief Marketing Officer at Quick Base. He joined in April 2019 to lead marketing, including go-to-market strategy, brand development, integrated campaigns, demand generation and customer marketing. Eric has nearly two decades of experience as a senior go-to-market leader in high-growth technology businesses. Prior to Quick Base, Eric was Chief Marketing Officer for Sovos, where he built the private equity-backed software business’ brand, growth strategy and marketing function from the ground up. Previously, he spent several years in event technology, first leading a high-growth division of Active Network as its general manager where he helped the business enter new markets and establish itself as a market leader for event technology. Then, as CEO of Zerista, he helped grow and sell the mobile startup, building its go-to-market strategy, assembling a cross-functional team and establishing a scalable growth model. Eric has a B.A. in Journalism from Colorado State University.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Chris Pick
Chief Marketing Officer of Tanium
Chris Pick is the Chief Marketing Officer of Tanium. As Chief Marketing Officer at Tanium, Chris Pick oversees the company’s global marketing team, which includes product marketing, demand generation, sales development, field marketing, and corporate communications. Chris is responsible for driving Tanium’s market strategy, brand awareness, and the company’s continued growth across the U.S and international markets. He is a 25-year veteran in the technology industry with an established track record of creating innovative go-to-market strategies, software categories, and customer communities. Previous to Tanium, Chris spent nine years as CMO at Apptio, where he led the creation of the Technology Business Management category and played a key role in Vista Equity’s $2B acquisition of the company. Prior to Apptio, Chris was an Executive in Residence at Austin Ventures, was the Chief Marketing Officer at NetIQ, and led Ernst & Young’s enterprise security architecture global practice.
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About Tanium, Technology Business Management Council: Tanium is a security and systems management platform allowing real-time data collection at an enterprise scale.
Titania Jordan
CPO & CMO of Bark Technologies
As CPO, Titania is Bark’s resident factotum, her role spanning across marketing, product, copy, customer acquisition and education, and media relations. Titania has tremendous experience at the intersection of families and technology, formerly serving as CMO at KidsLink, co-founder/CMO at Privet, and Executive Director of Band of Coders Girls Academy. Titania has appeared on numerous national and regional programs, is a regular speaker at conferences such as VentureBeat MobileBeat, DigSouth, Mom 2.0 and Dad 2.0, and emcees events like the Atlanta Hawks Agency Shootout. Titania was named a tech “Innovator and a Mother of Invention” by The Atlantan in 2015 and one of the “Women Who Lead & Light Up Atlanta’s Tech Ecosystem” by Hypepotamus in 2016. Titania holds a BBA in Marketing, and enjoys painting and building some pretty sweet LEGO cities with her family in her downtime.
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About Bark Technologies, KidsLink, Privet: Bark uses AI to detect issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, and school shooting threats.
Becky Wang
Chief Marketing Officer of Esme Learning Solutions
Becky Wang is the Chief Marketing Officer at Esme Learning Solutions.
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About Crossbeat New York, Esme Learning Solutions: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
Christine Cefalo
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of Workday
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Christy Marble
Chief Marketing Officer of Pantheon
A seasoned global SaaS growth marketing expert, Christy Marble has overseen successful digital, mar tech and go-to-market transformations, product, e-commerce, and ecosystem launches, acquisitions and integrations, successful rebranding, market expansion and multi-billion-dollar brand and portfolio growth. As CMO of SAP Concur, Christy’s B2B marketing teams led rapid channel, vertical and international market expansion growing pipeline from $200M to beyond $1 billion. As CMO of Visier and as B2B marketing executive at Vertafore, E-centives and Claritas, and consumer marketing executive at Sallie Mae she has led successful SaaS product commercialization and go-to-market strategies, corporate and consumer brand launches, customer segmentation and digital marketing programs. Christy is a Global Advisory Board Member of the Sales & Marketing Strategy Institute (SAMS) and an advisor to Fenix Commerce.
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Natascha French
CMO of VNTANA
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About VNTANA: Democratizing 3D for the world through the only automated 3D Collaboration Platform.
Niloy Sanyal
CMO of LeanTaaS
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About LeanTaaS, Omnicell: LeanTaaS is a software company that uses advanced data science to significantly improve the operational performance of hospitals and clinics
David Lee
Chief Marketing Officer of Yodlee
As Chief Marketing Officer, David Lee is responsible for all corporate marketing and product marketing management initiatives at Envestnet | Yodlee. This team oversees all brand awareness and reputation, demand generation, digital marketing, and go-to-market launch activities. Previously, David served as Vice President of Marketing Communications for five years at SonicWALL – a network security company acquired by Dell. He was also Vice President of Corporate Marketing for PalmSource, Vice President of Marketing for start-ups acquired by IBM and AOL, and Director of Marketing for Palm, Inc. David started his career in consumer marketing with executive positions at The Quaker Oats Company, Leo Burnett Advertising, and Levi Strauss & Co. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Yodlee: Yodlee is a provider of financial applications that offers solutions for banks, entrepreneurs and individuals.
Seth Temko
Chief Marketing Officer of TouchBistro
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About TouchBistro: TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly.
Ron McMurtrie
Chief Marketing & Business Enablement Officer of Sage Group
Ron McMurtrie joined Sage in 2017 and leads marketing across the company, inspiring long-term relationships through creativity and innovation. McMurtrie aligns the strategic direction of product, brand, digital marketing and communications, and oversees key functional areas for new customer acquisition, building customers for life, and advancing Sage’s cloud strategy. Before joining Sage, McMurtrie was global Chief Marketing Officer at Recall, an information management company, leading worldwide marketing strategy and operations. Previously, McMurtrie has over 20 years’ experience in similar roles for brands including VCE – the joint venture between Cisco, EMC and VMware – First Data, Verizon and MCI. McMurtrie is a multi-dimensional leader with P&L and personnel responsibility spanning direct sales, marketing, enterprise consulting and professional services in private and public-sector markets.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Karla Fleege
Chief Marketing Officer of The simPRO Group
Karla Fleege is the Chief Marketing Officer at simPRO.
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About The simPRO Group: SimPRO Group is a global provider of business management software for the trades and services industry.
Tim Minahan
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Citrix Systems
Tim Minahan is senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO) at Citrix, where he leads global marketing strategy and operations for the company’s vision of securely delivering the world’s most important apps and data to enable people and businesses to work better. A technology industry veteran who specializes in defining new markets and positioning companies to own them, Minahan has served in a broad range of business leadership roles at leading enterprise software, cloud, and services firms. He most recently spearheaded SAP’s successful transition to the cloud as CMO of the company’s Cloud and Line of Business unit. Minahan joined SAP when the company acquired Ariba, where he was SVP of Business Network Strategy and global CMO.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Ben Gibson
Chief Marketing Officer of Nutanix
Ben Gibson serves as chief marketing officer at Nutanix where he oversees the company’s global marketing strategy to accelerate customer adoption of its enterprise cloud solutions. Prior to Nutanix, Ben also served as CMO at F5 Networks and Aruba Networks. Gibson also served as Vice President of Marketing for Cisco’s Data Center/Virtualization business, as well as marketing leadership roles for Cisco’s Enterprise Global Marketing Solutions and Program Development and Wireless and Mobility Solutions Marketing. Prior to Cisco, Gibson served as Vice President of Marketing at both Meru Networks and Proxim Corporation, where he led global marketing, communications, investor relations, and channel marketing programs. Gibson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Business from California State University Long Beach.
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About Nutanix: Nutanix is a virtualized datacenter platform that provides disruptive datacenter infrastructure solutions for business applications.
Judd Marcello
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Conexiom
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About Conexiom: Conexiom helps manufacturers and distributors lower their cost-to-serve and generate revenue through sales orders and AP Invoice automation.
Kristin Hambelton
Chief Marketing Officer of MineralTree
Kristin is responsible for leading marketing and inside sales at Evariant. She oversees all marketing strategy and operations including product marketing, branding, demand generation, and corporate communications. She also manages the team that is responsible for identifying, qualifying, and developing opportunities for the sales organization. Prior to joining Evariant, Kristin worked for Adobe as a result of their acquisition of Neolane, where she served as vice president of marketing. Kristin was part of the executive team that drove significant year-over-year growth, leading to the sale of the company to Adobe for $600M. Prior to Neolane, Kristin held marketing leadership roles at IDC, Kronos, and Digital Equipment Corporation. She has been recognized for her achievements by several organizations, including a Bronze Stevie Award for Female Business Executive of the Year and Sales Lead Management Association’s 20 Women to Watch.
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About Marketing Evolution, MineralTree: MineralTree provides mobile and online accounts payable automation software for finance professionals at growing organizations.
Monika Saha
Chief Marketing Officer of Delphix
Monika Saha is the CMO at Delphix.
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About Delphix: Delphix provides an intelligent data platform that accelerates digital transformation for companies around the world.
Erik Whiteford
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Azarus
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About Azarus: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Ajay Khanna
Chief Marketing Officer of Explorium
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About Explorium: Explorium offers a data science platform powered by augmented data discovery and feature engineering.
Lindsey Bickel Burgess
CMO of You Need a Budget (YNAB)
Lindsey Bickel Burgess is the CMO at You Need A Budget (YNAB). She is from California.
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About You Need a Budget (YNAB): You Need a Budget (YNAB) develops finance apps for iPhone and iPads.
Vikrant Batra
Chief Marketing Officer of HP
Vikrant Batra is the Chief Marketing Officer for HP Inc. Vikrant has more than 20 years of experience in worldwide marketing and advertising across consumer packaged goods, utilities, finance and technology. He is an award-winning creative and marketing strategist and is the architect behind some of HP’s most transformative and thought-provoking campaigns. Vikrant has held a variety of marketing leadership roles since joining HP in 2010. Most recently he served as Global Head of Marketing for HP’s $20 billion Imaging and Printing business. He is credited with spearheading the business’ shift to emotional storytelling – an approach that is anchored in insights, generates deeper connections with the global communities and drives demand. Prior to this he was the global head of marketing for HP’s $30B Personal Systems business where he led end-to-end marketing across PCs, mobility, solutions and services. Vikrant joined HP after a range of senior advertising and marketing agency roles supporting top global brands, At TracyLocke he was a Senior Vice President responsible for managing strategic brand planning, and at the Integer Group, an Omnicom agency, he served as Group Director. He began his career at J. Walter Thompson. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in marketing and advertising management from University of Bombay and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is based in Palo Alto, CA.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Lois Leslie
Senior Innovation Product Manager & Link Technology CMO of HP
Lois Leslie is the Senior Innovation Product Manager & Link Technology CMO at HP.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
David Karel
CMO of Zenput
David Karel heads up Global Product Marketing and core B2B initiatives for LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions business. Prior to joining LinkedIn, David was the CMO of Bizo where he grew marketing’s direct contribution to new business from zero to almost 50% in key market segments. He has over 20 years of B2B marketing, business development and sales experience. Prior to Bizo, David served as the VP of Global Product Marketing at SuccessFactors and held positions at Instill, Siebel Systems, Thomson Japan and MBAVision, which he founded. Originally a New Yorker, David and his family have been in the Bay area for 16 years. He holds a MBA in Marketing from University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School and a B.A. in International Relations, Asian Studies from Tufts University.
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About Zenput: Zenput develops an operations execution software for restaurants, c-stores, and grocers.
Matt Frischer
Co-Founder & CMO of Wristcam
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Gabi Zijderveld
Chief Marketing Officer of Affectiva
At Affectiva, Gabi is responsible for marketing and product strategy. She defined and built the technology category of Emotion AI (artificial emotional intelligence) and positioned Affectiva to dominate the space with a successful marketing strategy, including high-volume press coverage to drive industry awareness. Gabi also has led product management and the launch of Affectiva’s Automotive AI solution that is improving road safety and redefining the occupant experience. Today, she collaborates with other AI thought leaders to set guidelines and best practices for the ethical development and deployment of AI. Gabi’s career in high tech spans two decades and reflects her hands-on passion for building new “stuff” — from products to markets, teams and ecosystems. She has held a variety of marketing, product management and international positions, leading product launches, go-to-market strategies and channel management for companies including ON Technology, Dragon Systems, Be Free, Centra and Segue Software. Prior to joining Affectiva, Gabi spent eight years at IBM, where she first led the product management team for the Tivoli Asset Management for IT and IT Financial Management portfolios, and then worldwide marketing for Linux and Open Virtualization across the IBM company. Gabi has a graduate degree (Doctorandus) in Art History and Archeology from Utrecht University in The Netherlands.
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About Affectiva, All Raise: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
Vince Poscente
CMO of CommandHound
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About : CommandHound is a B2B software platform focused on enabling accountability to drive business performance.
Meredith Bell
CMO and Head of Sales of Jabmo
Meredith is a seasoned sales executive. He leads Jabmo’s global Sales and Marketing teams. He also serves as President Americas. He joined Jabmo in late 2016 following a successful 20-year career in Enterprise software sales -with a particular focus on the manufacturing sector. Prior to Jabmo, Meredith was VP of Sales for Docurated, where he tripled and then doubled annual sales. He has held senior management positions at Zilliant, Collabnet. Questra, and Oracle. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies.
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About Jabmo: Jabmo is the ABM platform for global manufacturers.
Rick Jackson
Chief Marketing Officer of Qlik
Rick Jackson joined Rackspace in July 2013 as Chief Marketing Officer. He leads the global marketing and brand efforts that support go-to-market strategies for growth in the evolving hybrid cloud market. A technologist at heart, Rick’s career of over 25 years has been focused on new and emerging technologies and their impact on IT and business results, fueled by his passion for learning and promoting new ideas and concepts. He most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer for VMware as it transitioned from virtualization to cloud technologies, and has held chief marketing roles at Borland Software, BEA Systems, and NetGravity. Rick holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge. He currently resides in Austin, TX with his family, where they enjoy an active, outdoor lifestyle.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Jeff Denworth
Co-founder & CMO of VAST Data
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About VAST Data: VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise.
David Gee
Chief Marketing Officer of Imperva
David Gee joined Zuora’s executive management team in 2015 with more than 20 years of experience marketing innovative enterprise and mobile computing products and solutions, and having held leadership positions at number of top global technology companies. Prior to Zuora, Gee was the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Infoblox, where he was a key member of the management team that took Infoblox public and doubled revenues over its first three years as a public company. During his time at Infoblox, Gee built the worldwide marketing team, successfully drove the growth of the sales pipeline, and helped Infoblox pioneer a whole new category — DDI — that encompassed the DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management, massively increasing Infoblox’s addressable market.Prior to Infoblox, Gee served as Vice President of Marketing and Enterprise Solutions of the webOS Global Business Unit at HP, and also served as HP Enterprise Services’ Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and as HP Software’s Vice President of Marketing. Before HP, Gee served as Vice President, International, for the Yahoo! Enterprise Solutions business unit, as Vice President of Sun Microsystems’ Global iForce programs, and as Director of IBM’s NetGen group. Gee holds a B.A. in marketing from Lancaster University, England, and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.
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About Imperva: Imperva provides activity monitoring, real-time protection, and risk management solutions for critical business data and applications.
Tim Yeaton
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Red Hat
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About Monotype, Red Hat, Roger Williams University, Stonebridge Country Club: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Lauren Pufpaf
CMO, Co-Founder of Feed Media Group
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About Chief, Feed Media Group: Feed Media Group is for businesses that need licensed popular music to create engaging customer experiences.
Neil Wu Becker
Chief Marketing Officer of Behavox
Neil Wu Becker is an award-winning marketing executive who has led global teams at a variety of IT, security and enterprise software firms – from Dow Jones Component and bellwether stock companies to small-caps and pre-IPO unicorns. As CMO of Onit, he leads all aspects of marketing, including developing and executing strategies to grow the company’s brand and business at scale. His previous experience includes acting as CMO at Behavox, where he established the marketing function for the early-stage compliance and security company. At Quote-to-Cash CPQ/CLM provider Apttus, he served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, evolved the company’s brand and transitioned demand generation to an integrated marketing model designed for growth at scale. Other marketing leadership positions for Neil include Executive Vice President of publicly traded A10 Networks and Vice President of Marketing at Armor Defense.
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About Behavox, Onit: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Guillaume Vives
Chief Marketing Officer of Mirantis
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About Mirantis: Mirantis helps organizations ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a public cloud experience on any infrastructure.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Andrea Catherina
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Celframe Corporation
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Lauren Flaherty
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CA Technologies
Lauren is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CA Technologies, a market leader in enterprise software. She joined CA in August 2013, after two consecutive CMO roles with Juniper Networks and Nortel Networks, and a 25-year marketing career at IBM®, where she held executive roles for over a decade. In addition to her role at CA, Lauren serves on the Board of Directors for Xactly Corporation, a market leader in SaaS-based tools for enterprise sales performance management and effectiveness. The scope of her expertise and experience covers a broad spectrum: corporate brand management, product marketing and portfolio management, and digitally driven customer engagement, experience and demand creation. Lauren is an experienced leader who has served a diverse profile of companies, from globally recognized technology leaders to high-growth, Silicon Valley innovators. At CA, Lauren is responsible for all facets of marketing. Since joining she has led a global initiative to recast the company’s reputation and positioning in the market via portfolio rationalization, brand marketing, strategic media and sports sponsorships. She’s also led the development of CA Technologies first integrated operating model for demand and opportunity management across sales and marketing. This work enables CA to measure market demand on a global basis, use analytics to gain insight on customer buying patterns, assess program ROI and sales conversion. Lauren has been recognized multiple times by BtoB Magazine as one of the World’s Top Marketers and was profiled in Secrets of the Marketing Masters, 2009. In 2010, she was named one of The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and in 2015 she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the 50 Most Powerful Woman in Technology. Lauren holds a BA from Syracuse University. She is married, has two children and lives in New York City.
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About CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Casin Ward
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer, and COO of Hoo.be
Casin Ward is the COO, CMO, and co-founder of hoo.be.
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About Hoo.be: Hoo.be is a social media platform allowing users to filter their favorite content in one place.
Derek Weeks
SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Linux Foundation
Raised in the heart of Silicon Valley, Derek Weeks has a deep-rooted passion for software development and innovation. His 25 year career in software includes publicly-traded, multi-billion dollar businesses, and venture-backed businesses that he helped lead from early-stage growth to unicorn status to successful acquisitions. At the Linux Foundation, Derek serves as a Senior Vice President supporting technology segments including DevOps, security, containers, networking, virtualization, cloud, blockchain, IoT, big data and analytics, storage, and embedded devices. Prior to the Linux Foundation, Derek helped create new market categories in open source software development and security as a Vice President at Sonatype, while he also built a massive online developer education community as a co-founder of All Day DevOps. While at Sonatype, Derek created and championed research of The State of the Software Supply Chain Report and DevSecOps Community Survey, six years running. Prior to Sonatype, Weeks held global software leadership positions for software portfolios in private and public companies, including: Global 360 (acquired by OpenText), Systar (acquired by Axway), Hyperformix (acquired by CA, Inc.) and Hewlett-Packard – based in the US and Germany. Weeks has received wide recognition for his achievements in the industry where he is a regular keynote speaker, has been named to the DevOps 100 by TechBeacon, distinguished as the DevOps Evangelist of the Year by DevOps.com, and received the Industry Executive of the Year from Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC). He holds a B.S. in international business from San Jose State University.
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About All Day DevOps, Linux Foundation: The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.
Lisa Agona
Chief Marketing Officer of Ensono
Lisa Agona is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, Agona leads the development and implementation of marketing strategies that drive revenue growth, elevate the brand and represent the voice of the customer. Joining LexisNexis in 2007, Agona spearheaded the communication strategy for the $4 billion 2008 acquisition of ChoicePoint, and in 2009 led a year-long company-wide rebranding effort as ChoicePoint was integrated into LexisNexis. Previously, Agona was global marketing director for Accenture’s capital markets group. She also held the role of Vice President with Republic National Bank of New York (now HSBC) where she co-lead the development of one of the early online banks. Agona’s areas of expertise traverse business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, and include marketing strategy, branding, product management, direct marketing, and corporate in-house venturing. Agona serves on the Board of Directors for the Junior Achievement of Georgia. She holds a BA in economics from West Virginia University and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
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About Ensono, TeamViewer: Ensono delivers managed IT services to optimize and modernize mainframes, infrastructure, and cloud for clients.
Linda Itskovitz
Chief Marketing Officer of Quicken
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About Quicken: Quicken is provides personal money management software, committed to helping individuals and families improve their financial lives.
John Golob
Chief Marketing Officer of Lanetix
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About Lanetix, Winmore: Lanetix is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of CRM and logistics.
