John Knightly

Chief Marketing Officer | Netwrix

San Francisco, California, United States

About

A strategic technology marketing leader with 20+ years of marketing, product management and sales experience spanning pre-IPO, mid-sized and Fortune 500 enterprises. Proven ability to work with senior executives to develop strategy, positioning and integrated marketing initiatives to make technology business-critical to buyers and drive revenue growth. Recognized for strong leadership, interpersonal and teaming skills in both startup organizations and matrixed corporate environments. Expertise: Strategy, Product Marketing, Product Management, Solution Marketing, Partner Marketing, Sales Enablement, Social Media, Demand Generation, Digital Marketing and eCommerce. Market Categories: Enterprise Software, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Cloud, Cybersecurity, SSE, SASE, Unified Communications, Collaboration, AI, Big Data, Analytics, IoT, Middleware, DevOps, Dev & Testing Tools, ALM, CRM, IT Operations and Software-defined Infrastructure. Global experience: have lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the US.

Experience

  • Chief Marketing Officer at Netwrix Corporation
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • SVP Portfolio Marketing at Zscaler
    Jan 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Led the product and platform marketing team that helped grow ARR from $1B to $2.5B+ in eleven quarters. Additionally, co-led entire 200+ person marketing team through 8 month transition, focusing on building/executing demand generation campaigns to hit pipeline and sales targets.

  • BlueJeans by Verizon ()
    • Chief Marketing Officer
      Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Led all Marketing and eCommerce functions globally at this SaaS video conferencing pioneer, acquired by Verizon in April 2020. Our talented team grew lead volume by 326%, eCommerce revenue by 178%, and marketing-sourced pipeline by 93% y/y, and expanded our customer base from 13,000 to 30,000 organizations in 2 years.

    • SVP Product and Solution Marketing
      Dec 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Led product, solution, customer, channel and alliance marketing for BlueJeans. Recruited a high-performing team team that built the content, product launches and programs to deliver top 5 Share of Voice, 80 new partners, and 9,000 new customers in two years.

  • VP Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Led WW Solution Marketing for HPE's $1B+ Transformation Solutions designed to help Sales and partners shift to selling business outcomes vs tech speeds and feeds. Solutions spanned Cloud, Data & Analytics, Mobility and IoT and accelerated customer value through pre-tested software & hardware configurations combined with packaged services. • Led Alliance Marketing for HPE's $3B+ strategic alliances business, spanning advisory, system integrator and software partners. • Led Industry Marketing for HPE's top verticals, including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare and public sector. Partnered closely with sales and field marketing to drive vertical thought leadership, leads and events. • Launched HPE's Enterprise.nxt (insights.hpe.com) thought leadership content marketing program which grew to 1.2+ million subscribers and 10.5K Twitter followers in one year.

  • VP Marketing, Software at HP
    Mar 2011 - Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Led Solution and Portfolio/Product Marketing, Channel & Alliances Marketing, Customer Advocacy and Evangelism globally for HP’s $3+ billion enterprise software business, including a $300M SaaS business. Software portfolio spanned Cloud & IT Operations Management, DevOps, App Dev and Testing, Analytics, Machine Learning and Big Data Management, and Enterprise Security and is now part of Micro Focus. • Launched HP Executive Scorecard, achieving 300% y/y growth in revenues (#1 growth product). • Launched HP’s Haven Big Data platform and drove one of 2014’s top three software-led campaigns contributing over $100M pipeline. • Consolidated channel marketing across 4 software BUs and 3 regions to improve scale and execution. Exceeded FY15 goals, delivering $861M in marketing contributed pipe for the channel. • Co-founder & co-author of Enterprise 20/20 thought leadership and social engagement platform which generated 175,000 ebook downloads in the first 6 months of launch.