Boulder, Colorado, United States
Software technology company leader and Chief Marketing Officer. Have lead marketing organizations and go to market organizations in large and small high tech companies. Teams that I have led have won 17 B2B or B2C industry marketing awards, including the Direct Marketing Association National Gold Award, the Forrester Best Social/Community Marketing Program, and the Sirius Best Channel Marketing Program in the technology industry. Led a well known technology marketing agency that offered corporate branding, product marketing as a service, demand generation as a service, channel marketing as a service and database marketing/digital marketing as a service. Passionate about technology marketing and how to acquire new customers and increase market awareness. Data driven marketer that has pioneered techniques in building highly predictable and scalable sales demand for companies based on the science of marketing. A self-professed growth junkie that has helped companies double revenue at large ($1B plus) and medium ($100M plus) size organizations. Cybersecurity industry expert with over 20 years industry experience in areas including identity and access management, encryption, DLP, DRM, email security, authentication technologies, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, threat intelligence, network security, cloud security, key management, mobile device security, and anti-virus. Graduate of the National Cryptologic School, worked for the NSA and performed offensive and defensive computer security operations. CEO of a venture-capital backed email and data encryption company that had over 30 million users worldwide. Sold the company in 2011 to a large public company. Served on McAfee's Technology Advisory Board for 3 years. Also served as a member of the Identity and Privacy Workgroup that advised the US Government on best practices and technology in identity management and privacy consent/compliance. Chief corporate spokesperson/evangelist on cyber security. Speak at over a dozen industry events each year including RSA, ISSA, Gartner and MSP events. MBA in Marketing & International Business (Univ of Colorado), MS Computer Info Science (Regis), BS in International Relations/East Asia (Univ of Maryland), Chinese Mandarin Linguistics, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA.
Responsible for leading and learning from a brilliant, dedicated team of Global Demand Generation Campaign Managers, Field Marketing Managers, Account Based Marketing Specialists, Digital Marketing Specialists, Channel Marketing and Technology Partner Marketing Managers.
Promoted to Global Marketing Leader for the former CA Technologies DevOps businesses after the acquisition of CA Technologies by Broadcom, including: Agile Operations, Agile Development, Continuous Testing, Security & Compliance, IT Automation, and API Management, including major product lines including: Clarity, Rally, Wiley, Spectrum, BlazeMeter, Veracode and others. Responsibilities include marketing strategy, tactics, analyst relations, communications, product marketing, digital, thought leadership, customer relationship marketing, partner marketing and enablement for all channels and routes to market.
Responsible for Portfolio and Product Marketing of the cyber security business unit at CA Technologies. Products include SSO, Identity and Access Management, Online Payment & Anti-Fraud Security, Privileged Account Management, Multi-factor Authentication, User Behavioral and Risk Analytics and Veracode Application Security Testing.
Responsible for WW Marketing for Tenable Network Security - the global cyber security leader in vulnerability management solutions for enterprise and mid market customers. Responsibilities include: Field Marketing, Demand Generation, Channel Marketing, Social Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications, Events, Website, Sales Enablement and eCommerce. Lead an incredibly talented team of 50+ marketing professionals worldwide. Oversee and manage a budget in excess of $15M per year.