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After more than two decades inside Dell, Sudharsan Rajagopalan has learned to make marketing answer to the business - through customer intelligence, partner economics and the quiet discipline of running the machine.

From Dubai retail floors to Chennai's digital-commerce corridors, Jai Shankar's career has followed one durable question: when technology changes, how do you bring the market with you?

After two decades in cybersecurity marketing, Lisa Matherly still begins with the same deceptively simple move: listen closely, teach clearly, and let the customer shape what comes next.

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From a seven-person rebrand team at Sectigo to the problem of governing AI identities at Portnox, Jonathan Skinner has built a career translating security machinery into a story the market can act on.

After twenty-five years across big technology, social-impact organizations and SaaS, Cvent's CMO is making a pointed case: presence creates trust, but marketers still have to prove what that trust is worth.

An engineer who learned to sell clarity, Mend.io's CMO has built a career translating cloud, cyber and AI risk into language that customers - and revenue teams - can actually use.

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Chris Ogburn is a seasoned technology marketing executive currently serving as GM/VP of Marketing, Global Partners and Alliances at Adobe, where he oversees partner ecosystem marketing strategy for one of the world's leading digital experience and creative software companies. With over three decades spanning Compaq, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, and Anthropic, Ogburn has built a reputation as a go-to architect of partner marketing programs that scale globally. He is a three-time CRN Top 50 Most Influential Channel Chief honoree and a sought-after speaker at venues including MWC Barcelona and HPE Global Partner Summit.
Julie Poutre is Vice President of Americas Field Marketing at Twilio, the cloud communications platform behind a significant portion of the world's digital interactions. Based in San Francisco, she leads the regional field marketing operation that drives pipeline and revenue across the Americas. Over nearly a decade at Twilio, she has risen from Senior Manager through Director and Senior Director roles to her current VP position, building one of the most sophisticated field marketing engines in enterprise SaaS. Before Twilio, she spent nearly a decade at Infoblox — moving from global events coordinator to Sr. Channel Programs Manager — where she honed the craft of building partner programs and generating qualified sales leads at scale.
Meaghan Moore is the Group Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at ServiceNow, where she leads a 50-person team responsible for partner acquisition, retention, and enablement across a global ecosystem pushing toward 10,000 partners. A decade-plus honoree on CRN's Top 100 Women in the Channel, she previously led a $6B partner ecosystem at SAP and held VP-level channel roles at HP. Known for marrying emotional storytelling with data-driven B2B strategy, Moore has transformed ServiceNow's partner marketing from a support function into a core growth engine, co-architecting go-to-market plans that place partners at the center rather than the fringe.

Zhanna Tam is VP of Global Partner Marketing at Cloudflare, a cybersecurity marketing operator who has spent more than fifteen years building demand engines at category-defining security companies including Netskope, Axonius, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point. She is best known for scaling Netskope's pipeline from $100M to $500M during her four-and-a-half-year run as VP of Growth and Demand Generation.