Erin Alonso

Sr. Director, Global Strategic Events + Field Marketing

United States

About

Strategic and results-oriented Global Marketing Events Leader with extensive experience driving high-impact brand activations and large-scale events. Expertise in crafting innovative concepts, leading cross-functional teams, and executing end-to-end strategies that elevate brand presence and drive measurable customer engagement. Proven success in developing executive programming, optimizing efficiencies, and delivering impactful results. Passionate about mentoring and developing high-performance teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and operational excellence.

Experience

  • Sr. Director, Global Strategic Events + Field Marketing at Harness
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • Head of Global Events at VAST Data
    Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 · 8 mos

  • Senior Director, Strategic Events at Rubrik, Inc.
    Feb 2022 - May 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Leads a team of event marketers in the development of strategy and execution of digital events, conferences, executive engagements and industry tradeshows, impacting 30% of the global marketing revenue and pipeline goals • Develops innovative strategies to produce events that amplify company brand and audience acquisition goals across new and existing markets • Manages communication, operational strategy, vendor engagement and creative design processes to ensure key milestones are met across multiple concurrent events • Collaborates with global stakeholders to determine event road map, and acts as liaison with executive teams to ensure alignment to company strategy

  • Head of Corporate Events at Moveworks
    Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 · 6 mos

    • Developed event strategy for emerging industry events and employee engagement experiences • Implemented processes for vendor selection, sponsorship engagement, content delivery, executive programming and operational management • Mentored and coached a team of event managers and producers to execute to meet event KPIs

  • Nutanix (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Director, Event Marketing
      Aug 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      • Drove high-impact growth through digital and in-person event experiences, leading content delivery strategy, executive programming, and targeted operations for events up to 41k attendees • Oversaw all activities related to event strategy, demand generation and advertising, communications, talent sourcing and management, production, executive programming, sponsorship sales, budget management, and event performance measurement • Established KPIs, developed and executed process to measure and report on event efficiency and pipeline growth, managing yearly budgets up to $20M within +/-2% of goal • Collaborated cross-functionally with field marketing and sales teams to define and deliver an integrated demand generation strategy to achieve conference goals, driving +300% growth in attendance and +200% increase in paid participation • Evaluated process and business operational models to improve performance and cost efficiency

    • Director, Global Marketing Events
      Dec 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Senior Manager Marketing Events
      Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo