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Transform the Way You Go to Market

Driving Impact, Alignment, and Efficiency Across Go-to-Market Teams

We’re here to help you win. Everything we do is in service of helping you hit your targets and move your B2B business forward.

Execute with confidence. Make the right decisions when it matters most.

Opportunities can open and close in the blink of an eye. The difference between crushing the quarter or falling short often hinges on your ability to execute with precision and confidence. When you have a chance to win, it’s crucial to make it count.

But you can’t make it count if you don’t see the signals. You can’t make it count if your data is in a black box and every potential buyer looks the same. You can’t make it count if your revenue teams—especially sales and marketing—are not in absolute lock-step. Without alignment, a hard job gets harder.

At Demandbase, we work to instill confidence across your organization with every touchpoint. Confidence that you’re doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons for the right potential customers. Confidence in your data and in your teams. Confidence to make the right decisions when it matters most.

Demandbase. Make it count.

 

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Your impact starts here – join our team

Ready to elevate your career and create something big? Discover our open roles and join our team.

Demandbase employees

We’re a diverse group of friendly, curious, confident people

We’re obsessed with the art, science, and tech that fuel B2B sales and marketing. Our goal? Creating the best opportunities for people like you to grow, learn, and build stellar careers. We’re fun, remote-friendly, and dedicated to giving teams the confidence to crush their goals with the right strategy and rock-solid data.

Think that’s your kind of place? Join us!

How we got here

In 2013, Demandbase created an entirely new way for B2B teams to go to market. Our technology revolutionized what’s possible and, in the process, created an innovative new category: Account-Based Marketing (ABM).

Since then, we’ve acquired new technologies that have enhanced our capabilities and expanded ABM across the GTM universe: sales, marketing, rev ops, and customer success. Now, with the most powerful account-based GTM technology in the market, we’re instilling confidence in our customers to make every touch count.

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Our beliefs

We believe that Clarity = Confidence

In our hyper-competitive environment, we believe that our customers deserve to know — truly know — what they’re basing make-or-break decisions on. The stakes are just too high not to be sure.

We believe that sales and marketing alignment expands what’s possible

We exist to ensure teams are working towards shared goals. That’s why we’re constantly innovating to deliver more ways for teams to work efficiently, together. Because when teams work together, anything’s possible.

We believe: All in or not at all

We are fighting to help our customers succeed because we know that the work they’re doing is mission-critical.

Meet our leadership

Executive Team

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Gabe Rogol

CEO

Gabe Rogol

CEO

Gabriel Rogol is the Chief Executive Officer of Demandbase. In his role, Rogol is responsible for fulfilling the company's mission of transforming how B2B companies go-to-market.

Since joining Demandbase in 2012, Rogol has been integral in setting the product and corporate strategy for the company. Throughout his two-plus decade career, Rogol has held leadership positions, including managing world-class customer service and sales teams at IDG and other leading publishers.

Rogol received his BA in Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature from Brown University.

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Umberto Milletti

Chief R&D Officer

Umberto Milletti

Chief R&D Officer

Umberto Milletti has been leading R&D for Demandbase since its 2021 acquisition of InsideView, which Umberto had founded and been CEO since its inception. InsideView products and data platform are now part of Demandbase One.

Before founding InsideView, Umberto was a pioneer in e-learning as a co-founder of DigitalThink, where he designed and built one of the first multi-tenant software-as-a-service platforms to deliver and track learning for millions of participants. As an executive, Umberto helped lead the company to a successful IPO, and its subsequent acquisition by Convergys in 2004.

Umberto holds a BS in electrical engineering from Tufts University and an MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Kelly V. Hopping

Chief Marketing Officer

Kelly V. Hopping

Chief Marketing Officer

Kelly Hopping is a seasoned marketing and business executive, speaker, and author. As Demandbase’s CMO, she is responsible for differentiating the company’s go-to-market platform, increasing brand presence, and accelerating acquisition and conversion of potential customers.

Prior to joining Demandbase, Kelly served as the first CMO at HYCU, where she continues as an Advisor. Previously, she served as CMO for the Digital Markets division of Gartner, where she managed a portfolio of brands — Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice. In this role, Kelly and her team drove 100% of the revenue acquisition for the $300M+ organization.

Prior to Gartner, Kelly led various functions during her 4+ years at Rackspace as Vice President of Integrated Solutions and Product Marketing, Senior Director of Integrated Marketing, and Director of Brand. Kelly also served in marketing and operations leadership positions at AMD for 5 years, and spent 1 year at Dell marketing the Latitude notebook business.

Kelly’s passion for branding and product management began at Kraft Foods, where she managed a variety of brands. She believes in bringing the art and simplicity of consumer goods brand management and demand generation to the technology world.

Kelly holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. She serves on the board of Empowering Women as Leaders Austin and is author of the book Rising: How to Thrive as a Corporate Executive while Staying True to Yourself, which launched in 2023. Kelly resides in Austin, Texas, with her husband and three children.

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Shanah Zamost

Chief People Officer

Shanah Zamost

Chief People Officer

Shanah brings 20 years of human resources experience spanning a variety of HR functions, industries, and company stages, most recently at NetApp where, as a member of the HR executive team, she led the Global HRBP, Employee Relations, and HR Operations teams and developed the foundations to a new performance culture.

Prior to NetApp, she spent close to five years at Twitter leading a Global HR Business Partner team, providing strategic partnership to members of the Executive Team, and leading the Global Talent Management function. During her tenure she helped lead the roll out of pay transparency, shepherded the organization through a remote-first cultural transformation, and led a full redesign of the Talent Development lifecycle, leveling framework, and role expectations.

Prior to Twitter, Shanah spent time in a variety of HRBP and compensation roles at Pinterest, Square (now Block), Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBCUniversal, and GE. She holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!).

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Bryan Morris

Chief Financial Officer

Bryan Morris

Chief Financial Officer

Bryan is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Demandbase. Previously, he served as CFO for several private, leading SaaS companies, including Kinetica, Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016), and LiveRamp (acquired by Acxiom in 2014). He has built and led numerous G&A teams during periods of rapid growth across six different VC-backed start-ups.

Bryan is a registered CPA (inactive) in California and holds a B.A. in business economics from UC Santa Barbara.

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Michael Wilczak

Chief Strategy & Development Officer

Michael Wilczak

Chief Strategy & Development Officer

Michael Wilczak leads Demandbase’s growth strategy and partner ecosystem, drawing on 20 years of success building market-leading technology companies. For 8+ years prior to joining Demandbase, Mike was an executive at iCIMS where he led product, acquisitions, ecosystem, and strategy. During that time, iCIMS grew 10x and valuation grew more than 25x through a combination of organic growth, investments in new products, add-on acquisitions, and strategic go-to-market partnerships.

Prior to iCIMS, Mike was an executive at Wipro where he led the global growth of the company's IT and business process outsourcing business into Europe, India, Asia, and Australia. He joined Wipro through the acquisition of Infocrossing, where he spent 7 years driving strategy, acquisitions, partnerships, and investor relations, and led the company's software business. At the time of the transaction, Wipro's acquisition of Infocrossing represented the largest acquisition of a US-based company by an India-based multinational.

Mike is an active board director for other technology companies, and he’s passionate about volunteering with organizations that provide young adults with developmental disabilities an opportunity to build marketable skills. He is married to his college sweetheart, Elle. They have three sons (Tyler, Alec, and Evan) and three dogs (Pippa, Chicken, and Daisy). He lives in New Jersey and Florida.

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Sean Malone

Chief Information Security Officer

Sean Malone

Chief Information Security Officer

Sean Malone is the Chief Information Security Officer at Demandbase. In his role, he is responsible for the information security and IT functions of our business.

Prior to joining Demandbase, Malone led information security, delivery, product, and R&D for VisibleRisk, which was acquired by BitSight Technologies. Prior to that, he was Head of Cyber Defense for Amazon Prime Video, and previously spent ten years in offensive information security, performing red team engagements and cyber defense consulting for major financial institutions, casinos, gold mines, social media platforms, and similar high-value targets.

Malone holds an MS in Information Security & Assurance, as well as the CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCISO, AWS Solutions Architect, and AWS Security Specialty certifications. He’s active in the security community, including presenting research at Black Hat, DEF CON, and other conferences. He has a patent pending for his work on assessing security programs and quantifying cyber risk.

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Andrew Epstein

General Counsel

Andrew Epstein

General Counsel

Andrew is the General Counsel of Demandbase. In his role, Andrew is responsible for the company's legal and compliance functions.

Prior to Demandbase, Andrew was the Vice President, AGC, and Head of US Legal at LiveRamp where he managed the US legal team and advised the company on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, strategic initiatives, and product counseling. Before moving in-house, Andrew worked in the Capital Markets and general corporate groups of the New York offices of O'Melveny & Myers. While at O'Melveny, he spent time on secondment at Morgan Stanley assisting with leveraged finance, capital markets, and M&A.

Andrew holds a B.A. in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and received his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. He holds a CIPP/US certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Board of Directors

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Gabe Rogol

CEO

Gabe Rogol

CEO

Gabriel Rogol is the Chief Executive Officer of Demandbase. In his role, Rogol is responsible for fulfilling the company's mission of transforming how B2B companies go-to-market.

Since joining Demandbase in 2012, Rogol has been integral in setting the product and corporate strategy for the company. Throughout his two-plus decade career, Rogol has held leadership positions, including managing world-class customer service and sales teams at IDG and other leading publishers.

Rogol received his BA in Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature from Brown University.

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Chris Golec

Founder

Chris Golec

Founder

Chris Golec founded Demandbase in 2006. Chris started his first company in the mid 90's to help large enterprises overcome the challenges purchasing and engineering groups faced in managing their global supplier base. After building significant momentum in the marketplace, Supplybase was acquired by i2 Technologies (ITWO) in 2000 as part of the largest software merger in history. Chris then started a consulting practice helping companies build and manage world-class demand generation operations.

The success of the practice evolved into Demandbase, with the vision of transforming the way B2B companies identify, reach, and convert new customers online. Prior to his success as a software entrepreneur, Chris spent 10 years with GE and DuPont in global marketing, sales, and engineering. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and his MBA from Boston University.

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Stacey Bishop

Partner

Scale Venture Partners

Stacey Bishop

Partner

Scale Venture Partners

Stacey Bishop is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP), focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) and Digital Marketing investments. In addition to Demandbase, Stacey also serves as a director of NComputing, and previously at Vitrue, prior to its acquisition by Oracle. In addition to sourcing Omniture and ExactTarget, Stacey advises many of ScaleVP’s other portfolio companies, including Box, HubSpot and DocuSign, Inc. Prior to joining ScaleVP in 1999, Stacey specialized in M&A within Bank of America’s Corporate Development Group. Stacey worked in equity research at Morgan Stanley and began her career as an account manager at Syntel, an IT services firm. Stacey holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from University of Michigan.

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Ned Gihuly

Founding Partner

Sageview Capital, LP

Ned Gihuly

Founding Partner

Sageview Capital, LP

Ned Gilhuly is a founding partner of Sageview Capital, LP, a private investment firm to provide growth capital to small and mid-sized companies in the technology, business services, and financial services sectors. Sageview Capital was established in 2006 and currently has over $1 billion in assets under management.

Ned has served on over 20 corporate boards and is currently a member of the board of directors of Alfresco, Avalara, Envivio, Exaro III, GoPro, and MetricStream, as well as Chairman of the Board of the Duke Management Company, and a member of the board of trustees of Duke University.

Prior to founding Sageview Capital, Ned spent 19 years at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), one of the world’s oldest and most experienced global private equity firms. Ned joined KKR in 1986 in San Francisco, became a partner in 1995, and from 1998 until 2004 he lived in London where he established and oversaw all aspects of KKR’s business in Europe. He also served on KKR’s Investment Committee from its inception in 2000 until his departure in 2005.

Before joining KKR, Ned received an M.B.A. (Arjay Miller Scholar) from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; worked in the mergers and acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York; and graduated from Duke University with a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in History and Economics in 1982.

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Steve Klei

CFO Advisory Board Member

SVB Financial Group

Steve Klei

CFO Advisory Board Member

SVB Financial Group

Steve Klei, a member of the Silicon Valley Bank CFO Advisory Board, is also the Chief Financial Officer of Kabam, a world leader in multi-player free-to-play mobile games. Steve’s expertise has shaped Kabam into a profitable company with a $1 billion valuation and $400 million in annualized revenue, a 10x growth from 2010. Prior to joining Kabam, Steve served as the CFO for several successful, high-growth SaaS-based companies, leading IPOs and acquisitions and creating more than $1 billion for shareholders. He has raised more than $600M in capital to fund growth over a dozen different times. Steve was the CFO at Jigsaw where he grew the company to a $175 million acquisition by Salesforce, which was one of the largest revenue multiples for SaaS M&A. Before that, he was consulting CFO at Xactly Corp., where he managed the acquisition of the company’s chief competitor in an all-stock transaction between the private companies. While at Zantaz, he grew the company exponentially in revenue to $125 million and then led a successful acquisition by Autonomy for over $400 million. He also led ProBusiness Services to an IPO and then acquisition by ADP for $500 million. Steve began his career at Ernst & Young and then served as the corporate controller of Esprit de Corp.

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Anthony Lee

General Partner

Altos Ventures

Anthony Lee

General Partner

Altos Ventures

Anthony Lee is a General Partner of Altos Ventures, focusing on software and digital media investments. Anthony also currently serves as a Director of BrightEdge, Hooked Media Group, Kontagent, Koofers, MyERP, Netbase Solutions, Roblox, and Xignite. He was also a Director of GuardianEdge, which was acquired in 2010 by Symantec (SYMC). Before joining Altos Ventures, Anthony led marketing efforts for three start-up companies, including Evolve Software (Nasdaq:EVLV, later acquired by Oracle). Anthony began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and has published a national magazine. Anthony serves as Chairman of TechSoup Global, the world's largest non-profit distributor of computer software and hardware. He co-founded and co-chairs the C100, a network of top Canadian technology leaders dedicated to supporting Canadian entrepreneurs. Anthony is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a charter member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He is a founding member of the Full Circle Fund, a venture philanthropy group based in San Francisco.

Anthony received his MBA from Stanford University and earned a BA in Politics and Economics from Princeton University.

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Bob Spinner

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Jackson Square Ventures

Bob Spinner

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Jackson Square Ventures

Bob Spinner is a founding partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures and brings two decades of high-technology business operational experience. Bob also works with CrownPeak Technology, Intacct, MarketLive, Vormetric, and YouSendIt. Bob has served in various operational capacities, including CEO, worldwide sales, technical sales support, software programming, database design, and private and public fundraising. While at Sigma, Bob has helped a number of the firm's portfolio companies expand operations, build management teams, and increase revenues. Bob's technology focus areas include enterprise applications software, e-commerce, and software as a service.

Prior to joining Sigma, Bob was President and CEO of Extensity. During his tenure, Extensity grew from $1 million to $25 million while raising money through private funding and an IPO. In March of 2003, Extensity was sold to GEAC. Prior to Extensity, Bob was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and International Operations at Clarify, a leading provider of integrated CRM solutions, where he grew the company from $5 million to $140 million in revenue while managing a worldwide organization of 260 professionals. Earlier in his career, Bob served in expanding roles at Sybase, including working as the director of one of Sybase's most successful regions, and held technical roles at ADR and Chevron, including sales engineer, programmer, and database administrator.

Bob received his B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University.

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Heather Zynczak

Director

Heather Zynczak

Director

Heather brings more than 25 years of experience, including a combined 10 years as CMO at Pluralsight and Domo, to her role as a Demandbase board member. She has held executive positions within Oracle and SAP, led teams for numerous startups and has been a consultant for firms such as Accenture, The Boston Consulting Group, and Booz Allen Hamilton. She served on Salt Stack’s Board of Directors for two years until October of 2020 when they were acquired by VMware and is currently serving on the board of Thryv (Nasdaq: THRY). Heather is also a strong advocate for supporting women in business and is an active mentor. She founded Women@Pluralsight and Women@Domo, has been named one of 30 Women to Watch and CXO of the Year by Utah Business magazine. Additionally, she has been recognized by the Women Tech Awards for Professional Excellence and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.

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