- Co-founder & CEO at CloseFactor, helping sales teams multiply and accelerate their pipeline- Led Go To Market teams in extremely successful IPO scaling enterprise companies including Splunk (from $35M to $450M in revenue), VMware(from $250M - >$2.8bn) - Expertise in creating go to market strategy for enterprise software/SaaS companies, establishing product positioning and brand awareness with multiple audiences, and enabling field sales to acquire customers- Relationship builder, great at defining alliances with partners and at integrating customers and community into marketing- Deep sales and marketing experience in enterprise software product and marketing including messaging, positioning, content, collateral, packaging, pricing as well as analyst and press relationsAccomplishments include:* Redis early enterprise ARR growth of >100%YoY, recognition in Forrester Waves for Translytical databases and Infoworld technology of the year award* IT Operational Analytics category creation for Splunk* Established a partner based GTM strategy for Splunk in application management with other vendors in the space such as AppDynamics, Extrahop, Boundary, Dynatrace* Let GTM for early cloud offerings from Splunk marking its transition to software subscriptions* Led the > $1bn VMware vSphere 4 product launch across 8 teams and 60,000 customers
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Co-Founder And CeoClosefactorCalifornia, United States -
Co-Founder And CeoClosefactor Nov 2019 - PresentPalo Alto, California, UsMachine Learning is revolutionizing the information extraction field of Natural Language Processing. This transformation will have extraordinary benefits to professionals - they will have the means to truly take advantage of the entire world’s knowledge at their fingertips, without the laborious searching, filtering, and sifting that characterizes their work days.CloseFactor serves up relevant information, curated for their profession and domain of expertise, with the efficiency of a machine, enabling them to be superhuman in their profession. -
Vice President Market DevelopmentPetuum Oct 2018 - Aug 2019Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, UsPetuum is an well-funded advanced AI company that specializes in leading-edge machine learning techniques applied to problems in sectors such as industrial automation, financial services, pharma and healthcare.I ran marketing and inside sales as part of the GTM team. -
Vp Product MarketingRedis Mar 2015 - Jun 2018Mountain View, Ca, Us• Defined and executed the go to market and content strategy for Redis and Redis Enterprise• Increased awareness of Redis with the developer community through focused content on developer use cases, code samples, blogger engagement• Increased visibility of Redis Enterprise with senior IT professionals in large and medium businesses through a focus on solutions with placed content, contributed bylines, analyst & press engagements• Defined and executed content for website, webinars, videos, email campaigns, nurture flows, banner advertisements and keywords for SEO/SEM to generate demand, educate and grow the customer base• Organized and executed RedisConf, customer surveys through TechValidate and rewards through Influitive to increase community engagement and visibility• Created competitive analysis versus other vendors in the in-memory and NoSQL markets -
Sr.Director Solutions Marketing (It Ops, App Mgmt, App Dev, Mobile)Splunk Jul 2012 - Mar 2015San Francisco, California, Us* Led a team of senior product marketing professionals focused on the different sub-markets that splunk played in.* Established metrics for calibrating go to market success in the different markets and processes for collaborating on messaging, positioning and go to market -
Director, Solutions Marketing (It Ops & Application Mgmt)Splunk Jan 2010 - Jul 2012San Francisco, California, Us* Defined the Go-to-market strategy for Splunk in its core markets of IT Operations and Applications management professionals* Created positioning, messaging, collateral for Splunk as a hub for Application Intelligence and defined partnering strategy with other vendors in the application management space* Delivered strategy and execution for various Splunk apps in the IT Ops space ( VMware, Microsoft, *nix, NetApp..) -
Group Product Marketing Managergroup Product Marketing ManagerVmware Jan 2009 - Dec 2009Palo Alto, Ca, Us -
Sr Product Marketing ManagerVmware Jan 2008 - Dec 2008Palo Alto, Ca, Us -
Oem Program/Product ManagerVmware Jun 2005 - Dec 2006Palo Alto, Ca, Us -
Microprocessor Marketing And Business Planning -Supply Line ManagerIntel Corporation Oct 2000 - Jul 2005Santa Clara, California, UsTactical business planning, running business operations , providing corporate guidance -
Business AnalystIntel Corporation Mar 1998 - Oct 2000Santa Clara, California, UsConstraint based planning implementation, SAP APO Capable to Match module user requirements, program management -
AccentureAccenture Jul 1996 - Dec 1998Dublin 2, IeERP implementation
Leena Joshi Education Details
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Indian Institute Of Management, CalcuttaMaster Of Business Administration - Mba -
University Of MumbaiComputer Technology
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Leena Joshi attended Indian Institute Of Management, Calcutta, University Of Mumbai.
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