Chris Kent

About

Tech enthusiast, former entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in startups, fortune 500 companies, and US intelligence community.

Experience

• CMO at Metronome
  Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

• SVP Marketing at Clarifai
  Feb 2024 - Oct 2024 · 9 mos

• VP Product, Solutions, Partner and Customer Marketing at Cohesity
  Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• HashiCorp (5 yrs 10 mos)
  • Vice President Product Marketing, Security & Networking
    Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Director Product Marketing, Security
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 · 8 mos

  • Director of Product Marketing, Security
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Senior Lead Product Manager - Cloud Automation at CenturyLink
  2015 - 2017 · 2 yrs

  Product owner for Runner, CenturyLink new Cloud orchestration and automation product. Lead in the areas of strategic product planning, software sprint planning, pricing strategies, competitive analysis and thought leadership for CenturyLink cloud-to-IQ network products. Responsible for defining competitive product and market requirements, maintaining a prioritized product backlog, helping organize Agile software sprints alongside Engineering, and acting as a product SME to the rest of the organization. Lead cross-functional teams through ideation, business case development and formulation of product requirements, pricing strategies, and overall lifecycle management support. Ensure the CenturyLink offerings stays current with customer needs, technology advancements, and competitive differentiation and work closely with development teams from product initiation to delivery and product lifecycle management.