Cybersecurity
10 CrowdStrike marketing leaders
These ten marketers hold or have held chief marketing officer, senior vice president, vice president and senior director roles at CrowdStrike, across brand, product marketing, partner, growth and regional marketing. A reader can learn from them how a cybersecurity company builds its brand and runs marketing with partners and sales teams around the world.
Professionals to explore
01—10Chad Pearce
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Marketing - Asia Pacific & Japan · CrowdStrike
Former Vice President Marketing - Asia Pacific & Japan at CrowdStrike (2024–2026), based in Sydney. Pearce was Vice President Marketing - APAC at Zendesk from 2020 to 2024 and Chief Marketing Officer - APAC at Microsoft from 2018 to 2020, and was Director APAC Digital & Asia Integrated Marketing at Salesforce from 2016 to 2018.
Charles Saunders
LinkedInExperience: Regional Vice President EMEA Marketing Global Motorsport Sponsorships · CrowdStrike
Former Regional Vice President EMEA Marketing Global Motorsport Sponsorships at CrowdStrike (2019–2022) and Vice President Global Motorsport Partnerships there (2022–2025). His profile says he was the second person on the ground to establish CrowdStrike in EMEA in 2016, built out the marketing function to support sales growth, and established the F1 motorsport partnership in 2019.
Darci Hunt
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, U.S. Public Sector and Healthcare Marketing · CrowdStrike
Senior Director, U.S. Public Sector and Healthcare Marketing at CrowdStrike since October 2024, after serving as Director, U.S. Public Sector and Healthcare Marketing there from 2022 to 2024. Hunt was Director, Field Marketing, US Healthcare and SLED at Nutanix (2019–2022) and Sr. Manager, Government, Healthcare and Education Marketing at Symantec (2015–2019).
Gautam Mehandru
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Marketing · CrowdStrike
Senior Vice President, Marketing at CrowdStrike since August 2024. Mehandru was Chief Marketing Officer at Illumio from 2022 to 2024, a role in which his profile says he led global marketing and sales development, and Vice President, Global Marketing at Illumio from 2021 to 2022. He was Global Vice President, Product Portfolio & Customer Marketing at Tanium from 2020 to 2021.
Gregory Ellett
LinkedInExperience: VP, Growth Marketing · CrowdStrike
Former VP, Growth Marketing at CrowdStrike (2019–2024), based in Austin; he has also been VP, Commerce at CrowdStrike since November 2023, a role the profile lists in the Sales department. Ellett was VP, Demand Generation at SolarWinds from 2017 to 2019 and SVP, Digital Marketing at Rate from 2013 to 2017.
Jessica Meyers
LinkedInExperience: VP, Brand · CrowdStrike
VP, Brand at CrowdStrike since September 2021. At CrowdStrike Meyers was also VP, Corporate Marketing (2019–2020), Senior Director, Corporate Marketing (2013–2019) and Senior Marketing Manager (2012–2013), and was Senior Marketing Manager Principal at SRA, a CSRA company, from 2010 to 2011.
Kyle McCormick
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Growth Marketing and Operations · CrowdStrike
Senior Director, Growth Marketing and Operations at CrowdStrike since February 2026; his profile says he leads a global team responsible for campaign operations, marketing technology, localization and web development there. He was Director, Marketing Operations at CrowdStrike from 2023 to 2026 and Senior Manager, Marketing Technology at Palo Alto Networks from 2020 to 2022.
Marianne Budnik
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · CrowdStrike
Former Chief Marketing Officer at CrowdStrike (December 2020 to March 2022), a role listed at C-Level in the Marketing department. Budnik was also Chief Marketing Officer at CyberArk (2017–2020) and Simplivity (2014–2017), and has been Chief Marketing Officer at VAST Data since September 2023.
Mitesh Shah
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Product & Technical Marketing · CrowdStrike
Vice President, Product & Technical Marketing at CrowdStrike since March 2025. At CrowdStrike Shah was also Sr. Director, Product & Technical Marketing (2024–2025) and Sr. Director, Technical and Competitive Marketing (2023–2024), and was Sr. Director, Technical Marketing & Competitive Intelligence at Zscaler from 2021 to 2023.
Shannon Bodnar
LinkedInExperience: VP, Global Partner Marketing · CrowdStrike
VP, Global Partner Marketing at CrowdStrike since April 2025. Bodnar was VP, Global Partner & Alliances Marketing at Darktrace (2023–2025), VP, Global Partner Marketing at Zscaler (2022–2023) and Sr. Director, Global Partner Marketing at Zscaler (2020–2022), and Sr. Director, Americas Partner & Commercial Marketing at Nutanix from 2019 to 2020.
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Match the person's area to your question, since brand, product marketing, partner marketing and growth marketing answer different problems. For current practice, pick someone in a present CrowdStrike role, and for how the marketing function was built, pick someone who held roles there over several years.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a security company build brand trust with buyers who are wary of vendor claims?
- 02How do partner marketing programs with resellers and alliances generate pipeline for a security platform?
- 03What does a marketing operations team need to support global campaigns across many regions and languages?
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