Marketing at Riverbed | Growth leader | Global demand strategist

Cristina Daroca

Riverbed Technology

• Led a company-wide marketing strategy transformation from a broad demand generation approach to an account-based marketing (ABM) approach, in alignment with the company’s GTM strategy
• Implemented a 1:1, 1:Few, and 1:Many ABM strategy, targeting a total of ~300 accounts across North America and resulting in a 20% increase in pipeline YoY
• Integral member of marketing leadership team through the Riverbed-Aternity merger. Led a team of 8 marketers through the transition period, focusing on developing people, building for scale, and implementing exceptional culture
• Managed a $XM annual budget for global demand and Americas marketing, consistently delivering 30x ROI
• Recipient of the 2024 Marketing Contributor Award for exceptional impact on the sales team, demonstrating outstanding leadership, innovation, and results.

Senior Director, Head of Americas Marketing

• Grew marketing-contributed pipeline from 4% to 30% in first year
• Led and launched first ever customer community event within 3 months of joining the
company, securing 820 registrants and resulting in $22M in influenced pipeline and $7.2M
in closed won deals. Grew event by 15% YoY in following year
• Transformed inbound-only marketing strategy into comprehensive enterprise ABM
strategy, onboarding tools like Terminus, Drift, Pathfactory, and Sendoso, and launching an
average of 3+ campaigns per quarter

Director of Global Demand Generation | Aternity (merged with Riverbed in Dec. 2021)

ForgeX

ForgeX is a private community for marketing executives to connect and grow through events, thought leadership, and collaboration.

Executive Council Member

Peak Community

Peak is an invite-only community designed for marketers who want to learn and grow consistently, to become 1% better each week.

Member

DataRobot

• Developed and executed ABM program to identify, prioritize, and engage target accounts,
including intent data, engagement metrics, and predictive analytics, and resulting in 6x
number of meetings and 7x number of meeting attendees
• Aligned sales and marketing teams around ABM program, including 40+ account
executives, 20+ BDRs, and 10+ marketers

Senior Manager, Global Marketing Programs

Mighty AI

• Led all growth marketing and demand generation initiatives, including go-to-market
strategy, ABM, inbound digital programs, content development, and customer marketing,
increasing inbound lead generation by 55% and lead conversion rate by 4%
• Mighty AI was acquired by Uber in June 2019

Senior Manager, Growth Marketing

LevelUp

• Built and implemented the B2B marketing function from the ground up, including demand
generation, ABM program, inbound and content marketing, PR and communications,
branding, and events. Increased target account engagement by 66% in first year
• LevelUp was acquired by Grubhub in July 2018

Senior Manager of Demand Generation

EnerNOC

• Developed go-to-market strategy and annual marketing campaign plan for energy efficiency and demand response products, executing inbound and outbound programs, email marketing, content, webinars, paid social, advertising, and events
• EnerNOC was acquired by Enel X in July 2017

Manager, Demand Generation and Marketing Campaigns

EvoEnergy

Led development of marketing strategy for B2B solar energy business line, including customer segmentation model and pricing analysis. Executed new client marketing campaign through presentations, targeted email advertising, website content and other direct communications.

Strategic Development Manager

Air Products and Chemicals

Consultant - Summer Internship

Marketing at Riverbed | Demandbase Top 20 Marketer for 2023 | Global Demand Leader

I'm a growth leader with a passion for building and developing winning marketing teams. 

Born and raised in Spain, and with a degree in Environmental Sciences, I never thought I’d end up being a SaaS marketer in Boston, but life is unpredictable! 

I have extensive experience running demand generation and ABM programs for SaaS start-ups and medium-sized companies. I love helping develop other marketers to reach their full potential. 

Working with sales teams keeps me on my toes. I’m a strong believer in a robust sales and marketing partnership to drive the business forward. 

Outside of work, you’ll find me enjoying time with my husband and 3 kids, skiing, visiting family in Spain, or reading a good novel. 

Areas of expertise: demand generation, ABM, digital strategy, customer marketing, community building, marketing operations, marketing analytics.

• Grew YoY marketing-sourced pipeline by 27% in 2022 and 95% in 2023 by implementing a
multi-channel campaign and field marketing strategy, including events, digital, content
development, and customer community building
• Integral member of marketing leadership team through the Riverbed-Aternity merger. Led
a team of 8 marketers through the transition period, focusing on developing people,
building for scale, and implementing exceptional culture
• Managed a $5M annual budget for global demand and Americas marketing, consistently
delivering 30x ROI
• Led the global campaigns function as we entered a new category, Unified Observability,
resulting in 30% YoY sales growth
• Nominated for the 2022 MVP Award (top 3 team members across all non-sales teams,
based on biggest impact to sales team)

Dreamdata

- Team coaching
- Forecasting
- Pipeline Management
- Direct sales to target accounts

Sales Director, US

Leading the US sales team:
- Outbound practices
- Sales excellence
- Team coaching
- Forecasting

Sales Manager - US

Closed the largest deals with Dreamdata enterprise clients.
Going upmarket - building sales processes, coaching junior AEs

Senior Account Executive

The first sales person in the team to close non-founder led deals.
Closed over € 200K in the first year at the early startup days for Dreamdata.
Closed over 50% of all deals in the second year including crushing the largest deals & fattest quarters.

Actively building Linkedin thought leadership about Marketing and Sales alignment. 
Grew Linkedin followers from 2000 to 8000 within a year. 
Most of my own sourced leads come from inbound -> Linkedin. 

Sales Pathfinder: Building Dreamdata sales practices from scratch: processes, measurements, sales decks.
Experimenting and testing the practices while building those.

Account Executive

ValueOrbit

Advising the founders team on growth strategies through marketing, sales and thought leadership strategies.

- bringing in potential prospects for founders to meet
- posting LinkedIn content about companies services
- advising founders about their social content on Linkedin and other platforms

Advisor

Commsor 🦕

Sendspark

Strategic Advisor

Limelight

Strategic Advisor for Limelight platform development to enable: 
- B2B companies to find the right Influencers
- B2B Influencers to find and manage partnerships with companies

Variance

Coaching Variance Sales on outbound practices and quality outreach.

Sales Advisor

Gartner

Overachieved the yearly target with 130%.

Worked with the C and VP level leaders at the Danish Enterprise clients. Mostly with CIO's and CTO's

I helped them navigate and buy the right Gartner solutions that were used for building organizational restructuring and further innovation during COVID. 

During this hard time of all business slowing down, I was the first AE in the team to land a NewBiz deal 6 months from COVID start!

Enterprise Account Executive

DigiPippi

We at DigiPippi are working with the two UN goals to transform the world through quality education (4) and gender equality (5).
DigiPippi operates through workshop events run and coordinated by the fantastic female rolemodels. 

We are changing the world through young women in tech.

Board Member

Red Hat

Sold complicated OpenSource solutions to Danish Enterprise clients. Closed some of the largest Nordic deals. 

Overachieved sales targets with 120%

I was spearheading the NewBiz deals, upsells and renewals. All the sales engagements were tightly coordinated with marketing, pre-sales, tech teams and management.

Enterprise Account Manager

An active member of the Global Diversity and Inclusion team Globally representing the Nordic region. Members were chosen and rotated for 2 or 3 years periods within the various D&I subjects.
I was responsible for bringing the Diversity and Inclusion subjects to the Red Hat team in the Nordic and driving the necessary actions.

Diversity and Inclusion Advisor

Awarded as Nordic Inside Sales Person of the year - 2017
Over achieved Inside Sales targets by 130%

Translating customer business needs into the further innovation and partnership plans with Open Source technologies.
- Key client management,
- Business development,
- Subscription renewals,
- Pricing.

Main customers within: FSI, Public Sector, Manufacturing.

Enterprise Inside Sales Specialist

DXC Technology

- Aligning and simplifying general business processes in the Digital Applications organization
- Analyzing financial reporting 
- Ensuring ongoing clear communication in the organisation

Business Process Analyst

Leader of a highly skilled Application Business Analysts & Graduates

- People Management
- Delivery coordination in the respective accounts personnel is assigned to
- Education planning
- Coaching
- Reporting

Manager - Application Development 

- Building a University Relations organization in CSC Nordic
- Talent Relationship Management
- Running and delegating Employer Branding and recruitment activities at the universities to the team members in CSC Nordic 
- Supporting CSC Nordic Graduate Program initiatives

Graduate Program Manager

Knowledge Management

- Mastering CSC internal knowledge management tools for the knowledge share and reuse in the European Architecture group.
- Building educational plans for the Architecture group coordinated with the Global Architecture organization.
- Enabling knowledge share and reuse culture in the large group of IT Architecture professionals.
- Coordinating IT Architecture Talent program
- Establishing local and virtual Lunch & Learn events culture in CSC Nordic which are acknowledged globally.
- Planning and managing partner led Technology events in the Nordic

Nordic Transformation Program coordination

- Supporting the employee retention planning throughout the CSC Nordic Organization.
- Translating Global business needs to specific project requirements. Tracking and ensuring that the program is anchored and executed in the various Business Units.
- Supporting the financial Transformation execution.

Transformation recruitment project lead in the Nordic

- Leading a Technical Trainee program.
- Recruiting over 50 Technical Trainees in Denmark.
- Selecting recruitment partners, negotiating contracts.
- Building communication campaign for the Trainee program.
- Leading education and knowledge transfer planning for all the newcomers.

Nearshoring recruitment project lead

- Planning nearshoring possibilities in the organisation.
- Leading hiring initiatives in Lithuania.
- Coordinating knowledge transfer initiatives in the separate business units.

Knowledge Management Consultant

Resource Management in the Nordic Architecture organization:

- Effective management of over 100 resources in the Nordic Architecture group. 
- Assigning the right resources to the right projects within the requested time, budget and skills requirements. 
- Tracking and forecasting resourcing situation in the organization, focusing on resourcing process improvement.

Resource Manager

Revenue Attribution◾️ Dreamdata◾️ Sales leader with a crush on marketing

👩🏻‍💻 Professionally :
- Sales leader with a flavour for Marketing 🤝 
- Sales Pathfinder
- Doubling my LinkedIn followers base each year through content creation here.
I generate all my sales leads inbound from Linkedin Social Selling.
How do I know that Linkedin delivers Revenue?
Follow my Linkedin course on how to measure Linkedin Social Selling to Revenue: 

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/how-to-measure-linkedin-social-selling-to-pipeline/[…]g-and-adjusting-strategies-based-on-performance?


💃 Personally:
- Interested in B2B Influencer marketing.
- Morning 5K runner
- Appointed as an upcoming talent in Denmark u34
https://www.berlingske.dk/karriere/til-kamp-for-kvinder-i-it

Currently testing out the hypothesis: 
If you want to work in the past - join an enterprise.
If you want to work in the future - join a startup.

Fun fact: I was a weekend radio DJ for 2 years in my teen years 🎧

Laura Erdem

We are hiring and I want YOU to join our team! 

Here are the current roles we are hiring, but this is just a start, if you have been following us and love what we do - let us know!

- Product Marketing Manager,
- Senior UX Researcher,
- Head of Account Management,
- Analytics Engineer,
- Data Engineer,
- Director, Sales Development,
- Customer Success Manager,
- Paid Marketing Specialist,
- Student Product Specialist
- Technical Support Engineer 

We work from the office and we want you to be here too.
Check out the descriptions and locations on our website.


The picture was taken during our last team trip to Lisbon. We want you to join one of the jeeps for the ride!

B2B Attribution & Activation◾️ Dreamdata◾️ Sales director with a crush on marketing

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