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I've been a marketer for as long as I can remember. As a youngster, I brainstormed ideas with my Dad to create awareness for our family's restaurant in the Virginia mountains. I learned about creativity, perseverance, and listening to the customer by being on the front lines until I moved away for college. I attended High Point University as an undergraduate thanks to a basketball scholarship. That's where I began to put a framework around the real-world experience I gained from watching my parents. I graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in finance and marketing. After graduation, I started at Ecolab where I worked alongside great leaders that empowered me to climb the ranks. Over eight years, I had the opportunity to grow professionally, in management roles across sales and marketing, while gaining my MBA. In my last role at Ecolab, I managed the global marketing team for the International Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) business with sales over $55 million annually. In 2010, I returned to my entrepreneurial roots by starting my own marketing consulting firm, Aubergine Creative. I worked with many clients, both large and small, and expanded the scope of work into branding, website design, SEO, and social. I helped create and activate marketing strategies into actionable plans that could be executed by marketers and non-marketers alike. I joined Red Hat's Marketing Technology and Operations team in 2015 and held various roles of increasing scope until 2021. I had the privilege of leading a team of 40+ individuals who brought the marketing technology stack to life through integrated processes and skills designed to help make marketing more efficient and effective. In addition, I was honored to work with many teams around the globe to prioritize the development, diversity, and health of 1000+ marketers. This included efforts focused on learning and development, diversity, equity and inclusion, and helping associates grow careers. Life has a way of twisting and turning and in 2021 I decided it was time to grow and stretch in new ways again. I wanted to combine past experiences in sales and marketing and move back into *doing* marketing using all the incredible things I have learned over the past two decades. Now, you'll find me as the CMO at Klearly where I'm fortunate to help an experienced team bring an application to the market that's going to transform the way sales and marketing teams work together. I'd love to know your story, too. Send me a note and let's connect!