Gretchen Vagharshakian is a seasoned marketing professional with extensive experience in startup marketing, branding and design, events management, social media strategy, influencer marketing programs, and visual storytelling. She studied Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at San Francisco State University and English Literature at Oberlin College. She also took business, management, and finance classes at American University.

Gretchen's career journey includes being the Head of Marketing at Owler, Marketing Consultant at Neon Lab, Marketing Director, Comms & Brand at Light, VP Marketing, Founding Team at Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. (acquired by Cisco), Director of Communications & PR, Office of the CTO at NASA, and Sr. Manager of Business Operations & Finance at Flock.