Frank Mara

Marketing Executive

San Francisco Bay Area

About

- Served as permanent or interim CMO at over 56 venture-backed and private equity-backed companies. - Contributed to eleven successful liquidity events including two IPOs and nine acquisitions.

Experience

  • Vice President Marketing at Venture Management Consulting
    Jun 2000 - Present · 26 yrs 2 mos

    Product management, product marketing, demand generation, company launch, channel marketing, and strategy expertise for companies of all sizes. A partial list of current and past clients include; Reltio - Customer 360 using next gen MDM Rocana - Big data analytics using machine generated event data Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by Splunk) Cold Machines - HVAC performance management for light commercial buildings Co-Founder FeedZai - Big data analytics Chief Marketing Officer Get Satisfaction - Social media customer engagement communities Chief Marketing Officer (Acquired by Sprinklr) Aria Systems - Subscription billing cloud service Chief Marketing Officer FastBooking, Paris France - Hotel booking software Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by Accor Hotels) Zero Motorcycles - Electric motorcycles Vice President of Marketing Cloud9 Analytics - Salesforce analytics Vice President of Marketing (Acquired by InsideSales) FastPencil - Self publishing books Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by Courier Corp) Movaris - Enterprise software for financial executives Vice President of Marketing and Business Development (Acquired by Trintech) NetContinuum - Application firewall & security solutions Vice President of Strategy (Acquired by Barracuda Networks) MarkMonitor - Brand protection, anti-fraud, and anti-piracy solutions VP Marketing (acquired by Thomson Reuters) CrossLogix - Enterprise security software Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by BEA Systems) OnDemand - Partner relationship management Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by Chordiant Software) Enosys Markets - XML query software Vice President of Marketing (acquired by BEA Systems) Model N - contract pricing and compliance software (IPO'd 2013) Vice President of Marketing

  • Chief Marketing Officer at Magento Commerce
    Apr 2016 - Sep 2016 · 6 mos

    Acquired by Adobe for $1.8B. As Magento's CMO post-eBay spinout, I built the Company's first scalable demand generation capability that used analytics to deliver predictable revenue growth directly linked to marketing investment. Also designed and delivered a weekly marketing analytics and reporting process that tracked and scaled the business. Designed, staffed and managed a new marketing team. Result - 1. Complete visibility and predictability into marketing funnel and sales pipeline, 2. quarter-over-quarter bookings growth, and 3. a new $250 million investment at a 4x valuation increase resulted from 6 months effort.

  • Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Ingenuity Web Apps (acquired by Qiagen)
    2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for all of product marketing, product management, marketing communications, lead generation and sales activities.

  • Vice President of Marketing and Sales at OneList/eGroups (acquired by Yahoo!)
    1999 - 2000 · 1 yr

    Responsible for all Sales and Marketing activities. OneList merged with eGroups and was subsequently acquired by Yahoo! in 2000.

  • Vice President of Marketing at New Moon Systems (acquired by Tarantella, then Sun Microsystems)
    1997 - 1999 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for all product management, product marketing, and marketing communications.