CEO and Co-founder of TACK⛵️ & ClubPF ⚓️ — People-first GTM Champion
Mark Kilens is the CEO and Co-founder of TACK, a media and on demand GTM services firm helping businesses align and accelerate their go-to-market using People-first GTM strategies.
He previously was CMO of Airmeet, a leading virtual and hybrid event platform. He oversees Airmeet’s global marketing team responsible for brand, demand, lifecycle, and product marketing.
Before that he was the VP of Content and Community at Drift where he led the brand, content, creative, and events teams. He oversaw Drift’s community, Drift Insider, which has 65,000+ members, and Drift’s FLASH, RevGrowth, and HYPERGROWTH events.
Prior to joining Drift, he served as VP of Marketing and founder of HubSpot Academy. As a former customer, Mark joined HubSpot in 2010 where he spent two years working with thousands of HubSpot customers to scale their inbound strategy.
From there, he went on to build HubSpot Academy from the ground up, and in doing so, educated and certified millions of people and helped grow HubSpot to more than $600 million in revenue.
When he’s not at Airmeet, Mark enjoys plenty of steak and lobster, a round of golf or two, and loves being on snow or in the ocean.
Go fast, take chances!
Global Head of Digital Demand and Campaigns @Nokia | 2022 Future B2B CMO 100 | Advisor
Hello, I'm Zsuzsanna, my goal is to empower marketers, especially in complex B2B organizations, to become transformational leaders, drive growth and enhance customer experiences.
👉🏼 I am an audience-centric digital marketing head myself, with 15+ years' experience driving growth in both start-up and large enterprise settings, building and leading high-performing marketing organizations, and managing multi-million $€ budgets. I'm known to navigate into the unknown to learn through discovery, and push boundaries to bring innovation and new strategies into our marketing mix.
📈 Working at the intersection of growth, brand, and product, with a strong focus on digital channels, content marketing, customer advocacy, and marketing innovation, I currently head up the global demand generation function (built from scratch) for Nokia's growth engine, our 3.2 Billion Euro Cloud and Network Services software business.
Spent most of my career in B2B: telecommunications, SaaS, services.
🔥 I'm passionate about everything marketing, tech, people, and equality.
📣 We rise by lifting others...
🌟 My favorite buzzwords for 2023 are #DarkFunnel, #AllBound, #ProductLedGrowth, #DeathOfTheCookies, and of course #GenAI. 😊
FUN FACTS:
♦ Thinker, mother, eclectic music lover
♦ Have a beautiful 18-yo to keep me busy when not cooking up marketing strategies
♦ Degree in Business Information Systems - graduated first in class
♦ Global citizen - avid traveler and lived in multiple countries
♦ Got awarded and promoted after 3 months at an international call center, then managed a team of 100+ people at the tender age of 23 - Was top performer and deal closer (in the history of the company)
♦ Speak native English and Hungarian, mid-level Spanish, and basic German/French
• Go-to-market (GTM) strategy • Growth marketing • Revenue marketing • Customer acquisition • Pipeline acceleration • Campaign strategy and execution • Demand creation • Lead generation • Leadership / people development • Sales enablement • Account-based marketing (ABM) • Buyer journey mapping • Digital storytelling • Content marketing • Inbound marketing • Data, analytics, critical thinking • Purchase intent • Marketo / HubSpot • Marketing automation (MAP) • Email marketing • SEM, SEO, PPC • Conversational AI, chatbots • Web / social media • Employee advocacy • Salesforce • CRM • Content AI •
Experienced Strategic Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Marketing , Negotiation, Business Planning, Coaching, and Sales. Strong information technology professional graduated from UNISA.
20+ years in tech. Insatiable passion for building business.
I’m known for my no-nonsense approach to brand development & product marketing, good storytelling, and most of all - getting shit done. I champion a very hands-on approach, and I thrive in an environment where things need to move quickly and their impact is seen immediately. Most of all, I like to build things and see them grow. Whether it's leading brand & marketing for Huddle since its infancy to becoming the global leader in collaboration for government & enterprise. Or building a digital media and mobile consultancy whose clients included Disney, Nokia, Toshiba and Garmin. Or keeping my hands dirty while advising 50+ companies across software, hardware, mobile, telecommunications & networking and engineering.
I'm good at brand identity, brand management, integrated marketing, customer & user acquisition, online marketing, product marketing, content marketing, email marketing, inbound marketing, outbound marketing, communications strategy, media relations, analyst relations, crisis communications, internal communications, social media, geographic expansion. I'm unbeatable at team building.
I'm an actor and temporarily retired podcaster. I run a boutique recording studio. And I lead a 50k+ community of Girls Who Can't Surf Good (Yes, it is grammatically incorrect. On purpose. See Zoolander)
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