James Kessinger is an accomplished B2B marketing executive with experience across various industries such as hardware, software, virtualization, SaaS, and cloud. He has held leadership positions in both large global corporations and startups, successfully scaling marketing teams and extracting ROI from martech to help companies achieve growth. James has extensive experience in functional growth marketing roles, including demand generation, content marketing, PR/communications, customer success, industry marketing, services marketing, solution marketing, partner marketing, and sales. At different points in his career, he has marketed to executives in enterprise, service provider, global governments, as well as SMBs.

James holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University. He serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Hushly and was previously an Investor at époque évolution, TotaLeaf, Voray, CellSpin, and Hushly. James also held executive positions such as Chief Marketing Officer (acquired by VMware) at CloudVelox, CMO of Americas Marketing - Partners & Strategic Alliances at VMware, Head of Global Partner Business Sales & Marketing at Harmonic, and Head of Global Partner Marketing & Strategic Alliances at Cisco. He started his career at Verizon as a Product Marketing Manager.