
At Databricks, a former student-newspaper editor helped turn an awkward technical proposition into a category buyers could repeat. His method was unfashionably simple: choose the audience carefully, find the right words, and resist changing them too soon.

The Couchbase CMO began as a programmer, learned to speak both product and pipeline, and now carries that translation habit into enterprise AI and sustainable technology.

She trained to design roads, then built a career by refusing to travel in a straight line. Now Enable's CMO argues that curiosity, potential and accumulated experience matter more than the neat progression of titles.