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.
Wayne Goeckeritz is a seasoned cybersecurity channel executive serving as Security Channel Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's Go-To-Market Network across venture teams. With a career spanning decades in IT channel sales, he has held leadership roles at Cisco, Juniper, Crossbeam, NetWitness, Prolexic, Demisto, Palo Alto Networks, Siemplify (acquired by Google Cloud), and SentinelOne, building a reputation as one of the most impactful channel leaders in the cybersecurity industry.
Val Geisler is a lifecycle marketing strategist and VP of Partner Programs at Digioh, best known for founding Fix My Churn and creating the 'Dinner Party Strategy' — a behavior-driven email onboarding framework that has powered 209% conversion lifts for SaaS and ecommerce brands. With 12+ years at the intersection of customer empathy and marketing systems, she has built advocacy programs at Klaviyo, grown retention email to 25% of company revenue at ByHeart, and hosted the Ecommerce Marketing School podcast. Her philosophy: emails are relationships, not broadcasts.