Ryan Goldman

Ryan Goldman is a seasoned marketing leader with experience spearheading marketing teams across various industries like cloud, analytics, SaaS, Big Data, DevOps, and more. With 18 years of experience in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe, Ryan is a Kellogg MBA graduate who specializes in product marketing with a focus on business strategy, segmentation, category creation, go-to-market, and growth based on deep customer insight.

Ryan has built and led marketing teams at five startups, four of which became unicorns, one of which is now a $5B+ publicly traded company, and one of which had a $1B+ exit. Ryan's expertise lies in most marketing functional areas with a balanced approach between player and coaching duties to integrate across the full stack of product marketing, demand generation, marketing operations, customer marketing, communications, content marketing, sales development, events, and field marketing.

He has hands-on experience in several areas, including cloud, analytics, SaaS, product-led growth PLG, Big Data, DevOps, developer tools, mobile, monitoring, productivity tools, microservices, machine learning ML, financial services, education, and open source software. Ryan is also an experienced musician, having dabbled in music journalism with a stint at Pitchfork.com (acquired by Conde Nast), and he started and ran a profitable social network for music lovers with over 1,300 members in thirty countries.

With a passion for strategy and a proven track record in execution, Ryan possesses deep subject matter expertise in marketing. He emphasizes market relevance above all else, from positioning to messaging, customer and product journeys to sales enablement, and product launches to pricing and packaging. Ryan's career started with international development NGOs, making him well-versed in social initiatives and philanthropic efforts. Ryan's career has taken him from NGOs to startups in the tech industry to multinational corporations like Cisco, where he served as the Marketing Manager, Enterprise Strategy and Analysis.