Verkada

Richard is responsible for all aspects of demand generation at Verkada, the startup reinventing physical security in the cloud.

Senior Vice President Demand Gen

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Responsible for all aspects of AWS marketing that helps startups, anywhere in the world, to start, build, grow, and succeed on the world's leading cloud platform.

Global Head of Startup Marketing

Deep State of Zen  

After a great exit at Palo Alto Networks took some awesome zen-like time off to recharge, did a little bit of light advising and motorcycle camping- sometimes both at the same time.

State of Zen

Palo Alto Networks

From a pre-IPO startup in 2011 to June 2019 Richard built and led the international field and channel marketing and in country demand gen capability for Palo Alto Networks helping to drive the growth of the business from $180M to $2.6B bookings on its journey to being the cybersecurity leader that it is today.

VP & Global Head of Field and Channel Marketing

Richard was part of several board and executive level GTM transformation efforts at SAP including VP of New Product Introduction, VP of Sales Enablement for the launch of their SaaS / on demand software business, and VP of Content and Web Strategy as part of the company's Volume Business Initiative.

Vice President New Product Introduction

Symantec

Led the  VERITAS marketing team during the transition and co-managed the integration of it into a combined Symantec marketing team around the world. Afterwards was VP for Solutions and Industry Marketing and brought to market the first joint product solutions on the combined portfolio.

Vice President Industry and Solutions Market Development

Lamplighter Studios LLP

Richard served as an external advisor to this and other startups. Lamplighter Studios LLP was a privately held professional services and software firm dedicated to smoothing out the boom-bust development cycles of the then $11 billion dollar Video game industry. Lamplighter was acquired in 2008.

Board of Advisors

KPMG

Responsible for KPMG's US marketing, thought leadership, business development, engagement, and account based marketing for Fortune 1000 Software and Services clients. At this time also served as an early member of ITSMAs Solution Marketing Council representing silicon valley software companies.

US Director Software and Services Marketing (ICE)

Oracle Corporation

Launched and led Oracle's industry and vertical marketing function globally.

Sr. Director Global Industries Marketing

Ran Oracle's first integrated marketing campaign team responsible for developing and executing all global campaigns for the "Oracle Internet Platform" including the flagship Oracle database, application servers, tools, business intelligence and related products.

Director Internet Platform Global Campaigns

Richard has built and led international marketing and GTM teams in technology from scrappy to scale for over 25 years. He is currently Senior Vice President for Demand Gen at Verkada, reinventing physical security in the cloud. In his previous roles, he led Startup Marketing globally for AWS, built and led global field and channel marketing and in-country demand generation for Palo Alto Networks, was VP New Product Introduction and later VP Web Strategy at SAP, launched and led Industry Marketing globally for Oracle, Veritas, and Symantec, and was the US Director for Information Communications and Entertainment marketing at KPMG. He has also advised and sat on the board for startups in B2B software, services and clean tech sectors. He is a Certified Scrum Master, has a passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable technology, and is a mediocre mandolin player.

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