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Redwood City, California, Us

Drive market awareness and sales influence through managing C3 AI's relationship with industry analysts. Coordinate participation in analyst research and deepen relationships with analysts, educating and inspiring them about C3 AI’s AI and IoT technology, key differentiators, customer use cases, go-to-market initiatives, and competitive positioning. Work with product management and marketing to tell C3 AI's technology story to the analyst community, including coverage/deliverables, briefings/inquiries, presentations, product demos, webinars, and events.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led marketing for the Actian portfolio of data management, integration and analytics solutions. Championed product positioning, developed sales strategy, validated market messaging, analyzed competition, and evangelized product offerings both internally and externally. Coordinated corporate strategy development, redesigned company web site and created new collateral to support lead generation campaigns. Spearheaded analyst relations and coordinated press relations across the full portfolio of data management, integration and analytics. Supported field sales and marketing efforts with tools/collateral, social media, webinar contents, competitive analysis, and field training.

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Led the overall product line strategy, life cycle management and P&L management for enterprise server product lines. Managed a team of product marketing managers who drove North American requirements for new and existing products from customer, analyst and industry intelligence. This team also provided competitive assessments and positioning, developed sales training for pre-sales, direct sales and channel partners and ensured the portfolio had the appropriate pricing and positioning in the market. Ensured that the products had cost effective and competitive maintenance and professional service offerings to enable sales and incremental profit to the portfolio.

Cupertino, Ca, Us

Drove the business case for investments in new market areas and potential acquisitions. Supported marketing, business, and financial analysis of Mobileum's mobile services. Collaborated with marketing, business development, finance, engineering, sales, and services to develop business plans, market analysis, and product forecasts to present to potential investors.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led operations and planning for the Borderless Networks Board, a cross-functional team of senior executives overseeing Cisco’s $18B core networking business. Partnered closely with board members representing engineering, sales, marketing, services, finance, and other functions to manage the strategy and execution of Cisco’s networking architecture. Ensured alignment with Cisco's other segment councils and architecture boards.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Created and marketed business solutions for commercial customers, leading a staff of 15 engineers and marketing personnel to select technologies across Cisco's broad portfolio of data and voice networking, storage, video, security, and management products.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led the business team and product operations function for a new $10B enterprise server line being developed for 2008 introduction. Developed and managed the forecast and business case, tracked risks and mitigation plans, and ensured business success to justify Sun's $400M investment in product development.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Created and led a program management office to select, plan, and execute Sun's top priority marketing programs to capitalize on primary revenue growth opportunities. Managed $10M budget to generate $500M in incremental revenue. Championed several Six Sigma projects to create PMO processes and measure results attributable to marketing program investments. Regularly reported to senior marketing staff, executive staff, and board of directors. Directly engaged with all marketing functions and with sales organization to maximize program impact and results.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed forecasting for $3-5B quarterly sales across all Sun's product lines. Provided key expertise to redesign Sun's supply-demand process, led strategy development for Sun's revenue reporting systems architecture and roadmap, and participated in Sun's first wave of Six Sigma projects, improving the quality of forecast signals. Played major role executing to quarterly financial targets, interacting with executive management, sales, finance, engineering, manufacturing, supply management, and investor relations.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Led the marketing team for Sun's enterprise servers, setting strategy, managing product introductions, and ensuring successful execution of the multi-billion-dollar business, growing Sun from #3 to #1 in Unix enterprise server market share.

Bs, Computer Science And Engineering

Ms, Computer Systems Engineering

Mba, Information Technology Management