When Paul Gottsegen grabbed the CMO reins at Mindtree in 2013, he noticed a major deficiency in both himself and his team—there wasn’t a single marketing technologist among them. Throwing down the gauntlet, Gottsegen shocked his team by mandating they all become more tech-centric since until that point, “everybody thought that was someone else’s job.” While Gottsegen admits there have…
When I asked Sarah Kennedy, the relatively new CMO at marketing automation firm Marketo, what’s the best advice she’d ever been given, her answer set the tone for our discussion: “Jump out of the plane and find your parachute on the way down.” It is little wonder that Kennedy, who jumped into her role eight months ago, felt compelled to not…
One might think that a conversation with Chandar Pattabhiram, chief marketing officer of Marketo, would eventually lead to the aspirational, grandiose vision of someone who believes automation is the future of marketing. While Pattabhiram certainly does feel this way, he also touts the power of a more human side of marketing, in the form of storytelling. Recently, Pattabhiram helped Marketo rebrand…