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He coined the term "growth hacking" in 2010, after using it to ignite breakout growth for several companies including Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout. Co-author of Hacking Growth.
Nancy is the Chief Product and Marketing Officer for Stats Perform. In her past role, Nancy focused on creating digital routes to market, product consumability and growth for IBM's Data and AI portfolio.
As director of growth, Hila's top priority is to building an industry leading B2B Growth Product Team. She's super good with data, and full of ideas and creativity. In past roles Hila has driven results with cross-functional teams for Acorns, GrowthHackers, Procter and Gamble and more.
Eric Keating is the VP Marketing at Appcues. In his current role, he runs marketing and growth, and works with SaaS businesses - from startups to the Fortune 500 - to optimize their own product-led growth strategies.
As Digital Growth Manager, Zoltan helps people discover IBM products, onboard, and build awesome products. Previously he was a Founder of Croissant the world's largest coworking pass.
Niyati is a Growth Lead at IBM Watson’s Data and AI org. Formerly a Senior Data Scientist and Tech Lead of the Watson Core team, she now focuses on developing data driven growth strategies that cover the full funnel across the Watson portfolio.
Andy Boyd is an entrepreneurial business builder with a focus on AI and Cloud. Over the course of his career Andy has used growth tactics against a target KPI to see consistent strong double-digit improvements and many cases of high triple digit gains. At IBM Andy is a founding team member to bring IBM Watson to market.
As a Product Design & Research manager with 10+ years of experience in consulting and leadership on digital products, Rachid loves creating products that touch end-users in a meaningful way while keeping business goals in mind.
Raakhi has over 14 years of experience in management consulting, brand, management and digital strategy. Prior to joining BCG, Raakhi led digital strategy for a portfolio of brands at Nestle.
Scott Kritz is Group VP, Head of Audience Growth for Ziff Media Group, a premium portfolio of digital brands that includes Mashable & PCMag. Previously, he’s held executive roles at Liquor.com, Bleacher Report, Sony Pictures & FHM magazine.
Nicholas has invested years helping businesses around the world leverage technology to connect with people. Now, at Automattic, he leads CRO and experimentation efforts for WordPress.com and other projects.
Jeff Hardison leads product marketing for Clearbit, a SaaS company powering the growth engines of B2B marketing and sales teams. Jeff has also handled marketing for Amazon.com, Hewlett-Packard, and several acquired startups.
Nathan launched a SaaS company at 19 and sold it at 25 (in 2015). Today, his book hit the WSJ bestseller list with 20k copies sold, his podcast passed 10M downloads, and his magazine ships to over 10k founders every month. He also spends his time interviewing founders about their launch and growth stories.
Gonto is a software engineer at heart that moved to the “dark side” and is now VP of Growth and Marketing at Auth0. With this career transition, he found a way to combine his 2 passions by applying his “engineering thinking” model to Marketing.
Stephanie is a Product Manager at Segment. In her current role, she runs the Growth Product team, focused on building a self-service product that serves both startups and enterprises.
As a product and growth leader at Mozilla. Chris lead a lean startup at Mozilla that brought Firefox's first paid subscription product (device VPN) from an idea to an invite-only beta in only 9 months. Chris is aiming for product/market fit with a privacy-focused VPN in 2020 and then scaling it around the world.
As the Chief Marketing Officer for Worthix, Mary hosts of the Voices of CX Podcast. She is the editor-in-chief of the Voices of CX Blog and has been featured as a CX thought leader and influencer by various publications, has authored multiple pieces on the state of Customer Experience and is considered one of the rising voices on the subject.
Simon has years of experience working in CRO and has spent his time in-house and agency side working with big brands. He's currently a Conversion Lead at Spotify where he works on increasing the conversion rate of the Premium journey. With a focus on data and user insights, Spotify has grown an advanced experimentation program spanning 79 different territories around the globe.
