Lisa Pearson

Lisa Pearson has been a public company CMO; a career marketer; principle in a venture development group; a board member and a strategic advisor to the best-known brands in the world including American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Yahoo!, Dell and more. She is an active board member of two companies, Alert Logic and FlowNonFiction, and an advisor to many.

Pearson has 20+ years of experience scaling high-growth companies with a focus on enterprise SaaS. In her multiple executive roles, she's been responsible for setting company vision and strategy; driving business performance through organic growth, global expansion, and M&A, and navigating corporate exits including IPO (Nasdaq: BV), LBO (Compass Group), and acquisition (to multi-national holding co. HAVAS, 5th largest agency in the world).

She has been a strategic partner to the best-known brands in the world including American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Yahoo!, Dell and more and is an active independent board member. Pearson is known for building high-performing teams including overachieving sales and client service teams, agile product and engineering organizations, and strategic marketing functions. Her passion is building diverse teams and she is an in-demand speaker on this topic.

Having spent a significant amount of her long career in male-dominated environments, Pearson is passionate about helping emerging women leaders become successful in similar environments. From being honest about the challenges women face professionally, especially in tech companies, to offer candid feedback on what they need to do to become successful, she is excited to play a role in developing as many women leaders as possible. She enjoys sharing information and ideas and is a well-regarded speaker on data, millennial buying behaviors, digital marketing, and anything else she can get people to listen to. She has been interviewed in the Economist, quoted in Forbes, and spoken at some of the world's most progressive conferences.