Angela Forgues is the Director of Analysis Products at Aurora WDC, a company specializing in intelligence software and custom research for product and marketing leaders, strategy professionals, and sales executives. In her current role she oversees custom research engagements, leads a team of intelligence professionals responsible for delivering high impact intelligence products, and contributes to firm-level and product-level strategy and road mapping. With a penchant for identifying unexpected connections and a love of "wicked" problems, Angela is passionate about driving measurable impact and helping clients navigate their most pressing intelligence challenges. Her primary industry expertise is within health services, healthcare technology, and population health, with significant work serving local and national priorities in the areas of mental health, aging, technology adoption by both patients and clinicians, SDoH, and rapid prototyping to support innovation in healthcare supplies and devices.

At the intersection of data, sales strategies, and go-to-market technologies, I build and lead high-performing global teams to launch compelling SaaS products and enable sales. My expertise includes: Global Sales Development | Pipeline Building | Market Development | Sales Enablement | Client Acquisition & Retention Strategies | Business Transformation I cultivate cultures that empower people to pursue aggressive goals while establishing operational rhythms that enable them to succeed. As a competitive global sales development leader, I: • Established operating rhythm, enablement plan, and recruitment process that transformed Outreach’s Sales Development organization to consistently exceed quota. • Built and led corporate sales team to launch ThoughtExchange’s product into a new vertical, resulting in exponential growth. • Improved customer engagement at K12 Insight to successfully reduce high rates of churn and increase renewal rates. I balance business goals with employee needs and make data-driven decisions that deliver results. Feeel free to reach out to me to discuss how I strategize commercial operations across diverse industry segments and global markets.

As an accomplished leader in the world of sales and marketing, I've had the privilege of guiding teams to success throughout my career. Currently, I'm serving as a Regional Sales Manager at Virgin Voyages, where I'm dedicated to creating extraordinary experiences and nurturing relationships within our amazing partners in the travel industry. With a proven track record in sales, customer service, business growth, development, and marketing, I bring over 10 years of experience, backed by an MBA degree. I'm committed to charting new horizons and driving transformation.

I have a strong passion for planning, promoting, and implementing events. Most recently responsible for leading the planning and execution of 6sense's annual conference, Breakthrough. I've enjoyed helping the event double in size year over year while creating a unique and memorable experience for our customers and partners.

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C-level marketing leader and experienced non-profit Board Director with over 30 years of experience in marketing, technology, and global business transformation. Former adjunct professor and national speaker. For the past 30+ years, I have enjoyed building brands for Fortune 500 clients such: Nielsen, Dexcom, Hallmark, Energizer, Williams Sonoma, Mars Candy, Ford, Anheuser Busch, Visa, Sun Microsystems, PG&E, Maersk, Foster Farms, Pepsi, Sega, Jabra, and more. I help my clients navigate the challenges of modern marketing to ensure we create the right strategy for proper Blue Ocean differentiation, leverage the ideal technology to provide compliance and enable better marketing automation, target the right audience with the right message at the right time, and extract maximum ROI from marketing budgets.