Kim Smith is a highly experienced marketing leader with over 20 years of industry experience working with top companies in technology, software, cloud, voice, managed services, and security. She has expertise in partner and channel marketing, communications, change management, as well as channel strategy, automation, and sales enablement. Throughout her career, Kim has demonstrated her exceptional ability to combine strategy, vision, and storytelling in creating and executing authentic and compelling content that achieves measurable marketing results. Her portfolio includes building partner and channel value propositions, managing external and internal communications plans, executing sales enablement incentives, creating measurable marketing campaigns, producing thought leadership content, and leveraging online and offline demand generation campaigns.

Kim is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she studied Communications, and Santa Clara University, where she studied Leadership and Business. Over the years, Kim has worked globally and traveled extensively to manage partners in Asia, Europe, and South Africa. She has a remarkable track record of leading high-performing cross-functional teams in ambiguous environments and executing with million-dollar and shoestring budgets.

Some of her past positions include Director, Strategic Partners at Dimension Data, Senior Manager, Services Partner Marketing at NetApp, Global Alliance Marketing Manager at VMWare, Senior Marketing Channel Services Manager at Cisco, and Senior Marketing Consultant, Channels at Channel Impact Juniper Networks. Kim is a versatile communicator, a powerful presenter, and an expert in creating successful partnerships and value propositions.