ADVISOR | INVESTOR | BOARD MEMBER
Experience
Building impact businesses and organizations across every sector.
Salesforce Sustainability & Impact
My last role at Salesforce was helping to incubate the impact & sustainability business unit as part of the Impact Leadership Team from 2019-2025. On sustainability and ESG, I launched and led 4 go-to-market to support the Net Zero Cloud & Sustainability Data Management business, a start-up unit now with hundreds of customers and double-digit growth. On the impact side, we led impact management strategy supporting new impact products & services, and led stakeholder impact reporting including publishing Community Impact Reports 2022, 2021, 2020. Across this work, we built & ld multiple cross-sector coalitions and partnerships including Sustainability Value Creation, Impacting Together and Impact Measurement Today.
Salesforce.org / Salesforce Foundation
After scaling the Salesforce Public Sector start-up unit, I was recruited to lead global marketing and engagement for Salesforce.org & Salesforce Foundation. The Foundation has started a new social enterprise model under Salesforce's 1-1-1 integrated philanthropic model. Leading the nonprofit and education go-to-market, I helped grow the unit from <$10m to >$150m in revenue while also growing our annual social value to >$1B. I launched and led teams driving product marketing, field marketing, digital marketing, customer marketing & community engagement. I also led Salesforce’s Foundation’s marketing efforts for our grant-making (tech capacity building, education, and workforce development) and employee volunteerism efforts.
Salesforce Public Sector
I began my career at Salesforce as the Industry Director for the Public Sector where I built the go-to-market & sales enablement operation to help federal, state & local govt agencies deliver more impact and outcomes for their constituents. In two years, we scaled the business into the fastest-growing industry unit. My contribution was developing & executing our Connected Government go-to-market that included: product marketing, field & digital marketing, sales training and building partnerships with customers & third parties to evangelize government innovators. I had been recruited to join Salesforce having managed a leading Salesforce innovation program while working at the Center for American Progress.
Center for American Progress
I joined the Center for American in 2004, its start-up year. Over the next seven years, as part of the senior staff, I created and managed numerous teams that extended CAP’s reach & influence, helping CAP become the most influential think tank in the world. These teams drove coalition partnerships, digital transformation (email marketing, CRM, campaigns), new startup organizations and Board engagement with CAP’s Board of Directors.
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
LCCR is the nation’s largest civil and human rights coalition with >200 national member organizations. As part of the Leadership Team, I helped transform the organization from a 5 person boutique NGO to a 30+ person powerhouse by helping to lead policy, communications, field, research development as well as LCCR’s innovation efforts, including being the founder of civilrights.org and the broader Digital Opportunity Partnership securing $5M in support from America Online, The Markle Foundation, Bell Atlantic, to bring tech to the social justice community and help combat the digital divide.
U.S. Senate
I started my career working in the U.S. Senate while attending graduate school at Georgetown University at night. In the Senate, I drafted policy statements and speeches and conducted legislative research on poverty and civil rights policy.
