Leena Kamath

Head of Partner Marketing | Building AI Ecosystems, Strategic Alliances & Partner-Led Growth | Glean • Zscaler • Okta

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Mission: Build partner ecosystems that create customers, not just campaigns. I build partnerships that end with customers, pipeline, and businesses growing together. Not the kind that end with a press release. Today, I lead Global Partner Marketing at Glean, where I built the function from the ground up across cloud, ISVs, GSIs, channel, and consulting partners. Together with our partners, we’re helping enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale. Before Glean, I helped scale partner ecosystems at Zscaler and Okta during periods of hypergrowth, partnering with hyperscalers, technology companies, GSIs, and the broader cybersecurity ecosystem. Mojo: Building from zero. New functions. New markets. New ecosystems. New categories. If there’s no playbook, that’s usually where you’ll find me. Firsts: • Built Glean’s global partner marketing function from the ground up • Launched Okta’s Spectra Alliance and Future of Work Alliance • Built global MDF and partner activation programs • Created executive partner experiences and ecosystem events from scratch • Helped position Glean alongside AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, Deloitte, and other leading AI partners Wins: • Built and scaled partner marketing across Glean, Zscaler, and Okta • Grew partner-influenced pipeline and deal registrations by triple digits • Built partner ecosystem strategies for Glean:GO, Zenith Live, and Oktane • Created global GTM, partner communications, enablement, MDF, and executive engagement programs • Turned partnerships into measurable customer adoption, pipeline growth, and lasting ecosystems Outside work: Curious traveler. Proud aunt. Loyal friend. Amateur art critic. Professional book collector. I’m fascinated by how ideas shape business, culture, and technology. My bookshelf is where philosophy meets strategy, graphic novels meet AI, and advertising classics meet economics. Favorites books include Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Siddhartha, Ishmael, 1984, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Of Human Bondage, A Suitable Boy, Midnight’s Children, Such a Long Journey, and Between the World and Me….+ many more. Favorite authors include: Jane Austen. D.H. Lawrence, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Rohinton Mistry, Ernest Hemingway, Shakespeare, Tagore, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Arundhati Roy, Nassim Taleb + many more! Belief: The best partnerships aren’t announced. They’re adopted. The best marketing doesn’t interrupt people. It gives them a story worth repeating.

Experience

  • Head of Partner Marketing at Glean
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Director, Global Alliances Partner Marketing at Zscaler
    Apr 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Okta, Inc. (3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Sr. Manager, Solutions Partner Marketing
      Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      I led the global technology partner marketing function at Okta working with our strategic + game changing partners such as AWS, VMware, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zoom, Slack, Zscaler (had to add!), and many more.

    • Sr. Manager, Partner Marketing
      Nov 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Director, Marketing at SirionLabs
    Jan 2017 - Oct 2017 · 10 mos

    Sequoia-backed startup in the Contracts Management space.

  • Senior Manager, Demand Generation at CrowdFlower Inc.
    May 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

    An AI and ML platform that provides high quality training data and is used by data scientists. Appen > Figure8 > CrowdFlower.