Marc Gallagher is a beauty and luxury executive with 25+ years turning storied brands into digital-first businesses. A would-be architect who detoured through the dot-com boom, he spent nearly a decade inside LVMH building the digital engines of Benefit Cosmetics, Marc Jacobs and Fresh, then doubled Elemis revenue during the pandemic as Chief Brand and Digital Officer, and became the first-ever CMO of British skincare challenger Facetheory. He is associated with Michelle Pfeiffer's clean fragrance house Henry Rose in Los Angeles. His operating creed, inherited from a mentor: if it does not make you nervous, it is not worth doing.
Monica Belsito is the CEO of Function of Beauty, the made-to-order personal care company that turns an online quiz into a custom bottle of shampoo. She took the top job in July 2025 after a career spent building consumer brands that get acquired: founding CMO at feminine-care brand LOLA, CMO at hummus maker Sabra (bought by PepsiCo in 2024), and senior brand manager at Dollar Shave Club before its $1 billion sale to Unilever. A Georgetown grad and Harvard MBA who started in crisis PR and Colgate's management program, she now steers Function of Beauty's push from DTC into shelves at Target, Sephora, Walmart, and Amazon.
Heavenly Massage is the brand persona behind A Heavenly Foot Massage & Spa, a premier reflexology and therapeutic massage destination at 5510 PGA Boulevard, Suite 109, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Established in 2014, the spa has built a reputation for exceptional foot massages, full-body treatments, and facial services in a clean, welcoming environment. Ranked among the top spas in Palm Beach Gardens on TripAdvisor, the business combines traditional reflexology techniques with modern therapeutic approaches, offering everything from deep tissue massage and lymphatic drainage to European facials and micro-needling. The person behind the brand holds the titles of VP Operations and CMO, driving the spa's growth and marketing presence.
Sarah Kennedy Ellis is Vice President of Global Marketing at Google Cloud and Google Workspace, where she leads demand generation, account-based marketing, and digital strategy for two of Google's fastest-growing enterprise businesses. A two-decade veteran of B2B tech marketing, she previously served as CMO at Marketo - orchestrating its $4.75 billion acquisition by Adobe in 2018 - and then led a 400-person global marketing organization at Adobe Experience Cloud. At Google, she has been central to repositioning Google Cloud as 'the first choice in AI,' helping grow the business from a $12 billion to over $39 billion run rate.
Stacy Martinet is Adobe's Chief Communications Officer and VP of Marketing Strategy & Communications, overseeing a 200+ person team that handles all stakeholder communications, marketing strategy, events, social media, and corporate social responsibility. A former CMO of Mashable and decade-long veteran of The New York Times digital transition, she bridges the worlds of journalism, media strategy, and enterprise technology with a distinctive voice on AI fluency, creative leadership, and modern brand building.
Takeshi Numoto is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, appointed in October 2023 after his predecessor Chris Capossela's 32-year tenure. A University of Tokyo law graduate and Stanford MBA, Numoto joined Microsoft in 1997 after serving as a trade negotiator for Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Over nearly three decades at Microsoft, he has been the architect behind the marketing strategies that powered the explosive growth of Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365, and now leads all worldwide marketing for the company's AI-driven Copilot era — overseeing brand, advertising, product marketing, events, and communications globally.
Ramin Ettehad is a Silicon Valley-raised entrepreneur who co-founded Oomnitza in 2012 alongside Arthur Lozinski and Trent Seed, building it into a leading Enterprise Technology Management platform that has raised $37M and serves organizations across financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more. As Co-Founder with responsibilities spanning marketing and revenue, he brings a rare combination of hands-on sales intelligence, product intuition, and brand evangelism to the challenge of modernizing how enterprises manage their entire IT estate from a single pane of glass.
Jordan Long is the CMO and General Partner at ESO Fund, a San Mateo-based fintech firm that provides non-recourse funding to startup employees seeking to exercise stock options or unlock liquidity from private shares. A Bay Area native with a background in data analytics and mathematical economics from Wake Forest University, Jordan joined ESO Fund in 2018 and has built its marketing engine from the ground up, growing the fund through five vehicles and over $200 million in capital. He co-authors the firm's newsletter 'ESO's Monthly Start-Up' and serves as press contact, blending analytical rigor with editorial instinct in a niche that sits at the intersection of venture capital, tax planning, and employee financial wellness.
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is the CEO of Visiting Media, a Portland-based hospitality sales enablement company, and a veteran tech executive whose career has spanned Yahoo, Microsoft, BitTorrent, and Mozilla. Raised in a socialist collective outside Eugene, Oregon - by a pioneering rock concert promoter - he grew up thinking deeply about systems, autonomy, and how teams work. He is the author of 'Growing Up Fast' (2014), a pioneer of Agile Marketing methodology, the first CMO to pull all Facebook advertising after the 2018 data breach, and co-host of the podcast 'This is Your Life in Silicon Valley.'
Katy Keim is the Chief Executive Officer of LeanData, the leading revenue orchestration platform trusted by over 1,000 B2B companies. A marketing and go-to-market veteran with 20+ years across enterprise SaaS, she previously served as CMO of Lithium Technologies and CEO of LQ Digital before joining LeanData's board in 2021 and stepping into the CEO role in July 2025. Katy holds degrees from the University of Virginia (History) and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management (MBA, Marketing & Entrepreneurship), and has been recognized as an Inspirational Woman in Tech by We Are Tech Women.
Ryan Scott is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he helps portfolio companies build durable, compounding growth. He made his name as Etsy's first-ever CMO and Head of International - scaling GMV from $3B to $14B, tripling active users, and expanding the brand to 220 countries while earning AdAge Brand of the Year in 2020. Before Etsy, he drove Grubhub Seamless from $100M to $6B in GMV and through its IPO. A Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO 50 honoree with seats on Google's Retail Advisory Council and Meta's Leadership Council, Scott brings two decades of consumer marketing, e-commerce, and business leadership to the deepest end of deep tech.
John Eng is the Funding Ecosystem Partner at Right Side Capital Management, a San Francisco-based VC firm that has deployed $250M+ across 8 funds into 2,200+ early-stage B2B startups since 2012. With 25 years in B2B marketing and partnerships leadership at Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Parallels - plus CMO stints at Tradeshift, Remix, NewVoiceMedia, and Swiftly - Eng brings rare operator-investor credibility to RSCM's sprawling portfolio. He writes $50K-$200K checks into pre-seed B2B startups with real traction, helping founders navigate fundraising and growth through RSCM's operating platform.
Monica Woo is a Partner at 2048 Ventures, a $67M seed-stage VC fund in New York, where she backs early-stage companies in AI, cybersecurity, edtech, and e-commerce. A Wharton MBA with a career spanning four continents, she has held CMO and president-level roles at 1-800-Flowers.com, Bacardi, Diageo, Nutrisystem, Sears, FreshDirect, and Mozido - generating over $5 billion in incremental revenue across her career. As founder of WooWorks, she channels that operator experience into advising and investing in the next wave of emerging tech companies.
Kyle Lacy is a seasoned B2B SaaS CMO, author, and podcaster based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Best known for scaling Lessonly's marketing team from 8 to 70+ people and delivering 20x revenue growth before its $170M+ acquisition by Seismic, Kyle has held CMO and VP marketing roles at companies including Jellyfish, Seismic, and OpenView Venture Partners. He's authored three books on social media marketing published in 5 languages, hosts the Revenue Diaries podcast, and currently serves as CMO at Docebo, the AI-powered learning management platform.
Amanda Goetz is a 2x founder, 4x CMO, USA TODAY bestselling author, and podcast host who built and sold a luxury CBD brand (House of Wise) from her garage during a pandemic-era divorce, then pivoted to a $500K+ solo portfolio career on her own terms. She reaches 150,000+ readers weekly with her anti-hustle newsletter Life's a Game, hosts the Girlboss Ambition 2.0 podcast, and authored 'Toxic Grit' — a takedown of hustle culture that became an instant bestseller in October 2025. A single mom of three based in Miami, she turned her hardest seasons into her most compelling IP.
Kim Milosevich is the Chief Marketing Officer for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), widely regarded as one of the architects of Web3's public narrative. Over 25+ years she has shaped communications for Yahoo, Skype, and Coinbase, but her deepest imprint is on a16z itself - where she launched the a16z podcast, built its content infrastructure from scratch, and helped bring the crypto fund's story to the world. After guiding Coinbase through its landmark 2021 Nasdaq direct listing, she returned to a16z in 2022 as CMO to continue shaping how the next era of the internet talks about itself.
Meagen Eisenberg is the Chief Marketing Officer at Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the industrial IoT company redefining connected operations. A former IT engineer turned marketing powerhouse, she has led marketing at MongoDB (through its 2017 IPO), TripActions/Navan, Lacework, and DocuSign. With 30+ advisory roles and 18 successful exits including 3 IPOs and 15 M&A transactions, she is one of B2B tech's most decorated CMOs — blending engineering rigor, data obsession, and a fierce belief that writing is the most underrated skill in marketing.
Kieran Flanagan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Zapier and one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing. A former software engineer turned marketing leader, he spent nearly a decade at HubSpot building its international marketing engine - growing the Dublin office from 12 to 1,000+ employees. Today he co-hosts the 'Marketing Against the Grain' podcast with HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar, publishes 'The AI Marketing Generalist' newsletter on Substack, and invests as a Sequoia Scout. He is widely credited with pioneering the B2B creator approach to marketing and is an outspoken champion of AI-driven marketing transformation.
Basit Abbassi is a Karachi-based marketing and growth leader with 13+ years of experience scaling startups and brands across Pakistan. Known for his bootstrapping ethos and hands-on brand-building, he has contributed to ventures that were acquired by the likes of Careem and the Malak Group. Currently serving as Chief Marketing Officer at Snapp! Box, a Tehran-based logistics platform, he brings a rare blend of service-sector grit and digital strategy to every role.