Full-stack go-to-market executive: a CMO who has also run a 400+ person global sales organization. Over a decade at Smartsheet — built the demand engine from scratch, led commercial sales through the 2018 IPO, and served as CMO while revenue doubled from $550M to $1B. Most recently repositioned AI-native Elementum against the legacy enterprise SaaS stack, won Snowflake's Product Partner of the Year, and made Fortune 100 customer executives the public voice of the story — from keynote stages to tier-one press.
$18M → $1BRevenue scaled at Smartsheet
400+ peopleCommercial sales org led
NYSE IPOSales leader through 2018 IPO
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Elementum — Chief Marketing Officer
Dec 2025 – Jul 2026AI-native enterprise software running on Snowflake and Databricks; joined as the company's only dedicated marketer with a mandate to build the go-to-market engine in partnership with the CEO.
- ›Repositioned the company in the first quarter from "Open Orchestration Platform" to "Goodbye SaaS" — the AI-native replacement for legacy enterprise SaaS — with the technical wedge message "Agents reason. Engines govern."
- ›Won Snowflake Product Partner of the Year for Agentic Transformation (June 2026), with Sanofi's Chief Digital Officer and Under Armour's Chief Data & AI Officer telling the story from Snowflake Summit keynote stages — then converted the moment into a six-week tail of nurture sequences, reference assets, and board material.
- ›Built the first-party events program from scratch, anchored on high-end CIO dinners.
- ›Landed tier-one press in The Information and Fortune; opened Gartner analyst engagement; grew search impressions more than 10x through an SEO and LLM-authority content program while running a weekly CEO thought-leadership series.
Conga — Chief Marketing Officer
2024 – 2025- ›Led global brand and marketing strategy for the PE-owned revenue lifecycle management platform: demand generation, product marketing, brand, and pipeline, built around a connected cross-functional GTM model spanning marketing, sales, and partner teams.
Smartsheet — Chief Marketing Officer
2021 – 2024- ›Ran worldwide marketing — brand, product marketing, digital, demand generation, communications — through a period in which annual revenue roughly doubled from $550M to $1B.
- ›Launched Sponsor X, the world-first brand program with McLaren Formula 1 showcasing STEM nonprofits on a global stage — 55 million viewers at debut — contributing to Fast Company naming Smartsheet a 2023 "Brand That Matters."
- ›Used prior sales leadership experience to keep demand generation tied to the sales funnel, improving conversion and holding marketing accountable to revenue rather than activity.
Smartsheet — SVP, Commercial Sales & Demand Generation
2016 – 2021- ›Led a global commercial sales organization of 400+ people alongside the demand generation function — a deliberately unified revenue engine spanning sales, SDRs, and inbound/outbound marketing.
- ›Grew commercial ARR from $64M to $550M, through the 2018 NYSE IPO and ~40%+ annual growth in the years after.
Smartsheet — VP, Digital Marketing
2014 – 2016- ›Built the global demand generation and digital marketing function from the ground up — automation, analytics, experimentation-driven acquisition — as ARR grew from $18M to $64M and the customer base scaled to tens of thousands.
Deneki Outdoors — Founder & President
2005 – 2014- ›Founded and ran an international fly-fishing lodge business across multiple countries. Built it to profitability on content, search, and inbound demand generation.
Onyx Software — VP, Professional Services, Americas
1996 – 2005- ›Progressive leadership of consulting and implementation teams delivering enterprise CRM to mid-market and Fortune 500 clients across North and South America.
Board & Advisory
Elementum AIAdvisor
Ambassador SoftwareBoard Member
Stage 2 CapitalLimited Partner
Education
Dartmouth College — B.A., Computer SciencePhi Beta Kappa · magna cum laude