Primer turns a company's ideal customer profile or account list into high-match B2B audiences and pushes them across consumer ad channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Reddit, then measures real pipeline impact with website de-anonymization and holdout testing. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Primer resolves identities and runs enrichment waterfalls to deliver 3-5x better match rates than CSV uploads, helping growth and ABM teams prove advertising ROI instead of guessing at it.
Nicholas Kontopoulos is the Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific & Japan at Twilio, the cloud communications platform. Based in Singapore, he brings over 30 years of marketing and business leadership experience across APAC, with prior senior roles at Adobe (DX), SAP, Magento, and Capita. A recognized thought leader in customer experience and AI-driven marketing, he is a frequent speaker, published author, and LinkedIn Power Profile holder known for challenging marketing orthodoxy across the region.
Patrick Brown is SVP of Global Marketing at Adobe, leading growth, analytics, media, and marketing engineering across the company's global B2B and B2C operations. He oversees Adobe's Digital Economy Index — a research engine that tracks a trillion e-commerce transactions across 100 million SKUs — and has emerged as one of the most data-forward voices in enterprise marketing. Based in San Jose, California, Brown combines an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business with deep experience in technology, finance, and consumer goods sectors.
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.
Vanessa Thompson is the Vice President of Revenue and Growth Marketing at Twilio, where she leads a global team driving top-of-funnel growth across demand generation, lifecycle marketing, product marketing, competitive intelligence, and the developer network. A New Zealander who built her career through government tech, analyst research at IDC, and SaaS consulting at Bluewolf before joining Twilio in 2018, she has ascended from IoT marketing director to interim CMO and now oversees the full revenue marketing engine at one of the world's leading cloud communications platforms.
MarketerHire is a San Francisco-based talent marketplace that connects companies with pre-vetted, on-demand marketing experts - from fractional CMOs to paid-media specialists - typically matched within 48 hours via its proprietary MarketerMatch algorithm.
Bask Gill is the Co-Founder of Power (withpower.com), a San Francisco-based clinical trial platform that uses AI to match patients with clinical trials. After watching his father struggle to navigate a broken clinical trial discovery system following a multiple myeloma diagnosis, Bask co-founded Power in May 2021 alongside Brandon Li. The platform has connected over 600,000 patients to trials across 10,000+ medical conditions, with 40% being non-white patients - a deliberate focus on diversity and access. Power has raised $19M in funding including a $12M Series A in early 2024, and grown to 230 employees.
Marcel Santilli is the CEO and Co-Founder of GrowthX AI, a San Francisco-based 'service-as-software' company that combines expert-led strategy with AI workflows to drive organic growth for B2B companies. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Santilli spent 15+ years as a CMO and marketing executive at companies including IBM, HP/HPE, HashiCorp, Scale AI, and Deepgram, helping scale a combined $1B+ in ARR across three unicorns. After spending over 1,000 hours encoding marketing workflows into AI at Deepgram, he co-founded GrowthX AI in September 2024 with CTO Daniel Lopes. The company reached $7M+ ARR profitably in under 12 months — using only its own methodology, zero paid ads — before raising a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures in May 2025.
Mayin Joshi is the Co-Founder and CEO of SquareDiff, an autonomous agent optimization platform built for AI teams to find the most reliable, cost-efficient, and fastest version of their agents through autonomous experimentation. Based in San Francisco, Joshi is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business reselling sneakers at age 12, built a $680k GMV marketplace by 16, and by 18 had relocated to San Francisco to found multiple tech ventures. He also serves as Growth Marketing Lead at Productboard, where he was the youngest hire ever, working cross-functionally with product, data, engineering, and GTM to drive growth initiatives.
Singular is a marketing intelligence platform that unifies attribution, campaign analytics, and ad-spend data so growth marketers can see exactly which dollars produced which users. Founded in 2014 by ex-Onavo executives, it now optimizes more than $10B in annual ad spend for customers including Lyft, Yelp, LinkedIn, Match, and Rovio, and connects to 2,000+ ad and measurement partners.
Suzanne Holloway is the Operating Partner for Go-to-Market at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. A hands-on marketing leader who helped Miro scale from pre-Series A to a $17.5 billion valuation, she now advises Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies on building marketing strategies and high-performing teams. With deep roots in early-stage B2B startups - from Greenhouse Software to Zugata (acquired by Culture Amp) - Holloway brings rare operational credibility to a firm better known for writing checks than rolling up sleeves.
Sujan Patel is a serial entrepreneur, growth marketer, and SaaS operator best known as co-founder of Mailshake (a sales engagement platform used by 38,000+ professionals) and managing partner of Ramp Ventures, a B2B SaaS acquisition firm. A college dropout who earned $200K/year through SEO expertise, he has co-founded and scaled multiple companies, co-authored '100 Days of Growth' (50,000+ copies sold), contributed 200+ articles to Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and built a portfolio of bootstrapped SaaS businesses acquired through Ramp Ventures.
Alex Garcia is the Austin-based founder of Marketing Examined, a growth marketing newsletter he bootstrapped into a 7-figure media company with 200,000+ subscribers across 5 newsletters. A former CMO and agency founder, he built a social commerce agency that generated $100M in TikTok Shop attributable revenue in 18 months, co-founded the short-form video course Cut30, and hosts the Sweat Equity podcast. He's aiming to build a 9-figure media empire to rival Harvard Business Review.
Gaetano DiNardi is a B2B SaaS growth marketing consultant, former music producer, and one of the most distinctive voices in modern SEO. After spending years producing tracks for Fat Joe and Shaggy in NYC studios, he stumbled into SEO through a blog post about getting ghosted by Atlantic Records - and never looked back. He has scaled companies from Nextiva ($70M to $200M+ revenue) to Aura (0 to 1 million monthly visitors in 12 months), and now runs Marketing Advice, a boutique consultancy serving 50+ SaaS clients including Semrush, Gong, and Demandbase.
Tom Orbach is an Israeli growth marketer, newsletter creator, and viral-campaign architect best known for building the LinkedIn Viral Post Generator (1.7M users, acquired in one week), leading Wiz's brand from obscurity to a $32B Google acquisition, and publishing the Marketing Ideas newsletter to 85,000+ subscribers. He operates at the intersection of behavioral economics, humor, and B2B marketing - turning 'boring' industries into viral moments.
Julian Shapiro is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, deeptech seed investor, and prolific writer who built a career that spans open-source animation engines, growth marketing agencies, and a Y Combinator-backed startup. He founded Demand Curve, the largest growth marketing education platform for startups, and now runs Julian.capital, a deeptech seed fund writing $500K-$2M checks into robotics, chips, energy, medtech, and biotech. His free handbooks at julian.com - covering writing, startups, fitness, and audio - are read by over a million people annually. He co-hosts the Brains Podcast with Courtland Allen and was previously VP of Marketing at Webflow.