
After more than a decade marketing software, Kayla Fargo has settled on a disarmingly practical idea: give customers the room, skip the pitch, and listen closely enough to make the product story useful.

After a career selling complicated software, ProShop ERP’s chief marketing officer has arrived at a wonderfully concrete brief: help precision manufacturers keep what their best people know.

The Domo CMO's career began with a rejection, survived an acquisition, and gathered momentum through a simple conviction: business gets better when customers and colleagues are treated like people, not entries in a funnel.

The arts-minded daughter of two engineers built her career finding human stories in numbers. At Pindrop, that instinct has led her to a harder question: what happens when a familiar voice is no longer proof of a familiar person?

She studied language, learned procurement from the customer side, and found her calling in marketing. At Avetta, Gretchen Eischen is using the same skill again: turning complexity into a promise people can repeat.

The EnergyCAP CMO learned her craft through dial-up, social media, SaaS and AI. Her parallel education came one mile at a time, on Atlanta’s roads and inside the community that keeps them busy.