Andres Botero

CEO

San Francisco, United States25 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led successful IPO for Rubrik, achieving market leadership.
  • Achieved top-right positions in 12 Gartner Magic Quadrants.
  • Transformed multiple companies into category leaders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing executive with extensive experience in strategic growth and category leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Marketing StrategyLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentCustomer RelationsSales OperationsBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Advocacy Program ManagementAuto-ID SolutionsBig DataBig Data AnalyticsBrand AmplificationBrand StrategyBusiness AlliancesBusiness AnalysisCategory LeadershipCloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingCloud MarketingCompetitive AnalysisConsultingCross-functional Team Leadership

About

Transformational leader who creates market categories, drives exponential pipeline growth, orchestrates successful exits through strategic positioning, data-driven execution, and authentic sales partnership. • Team builder and strategic orchestrator who has managed strategy, marketing, sales ops, channels, alliances, SDRs, enablement. 250+ global employees, $100M+ annual budgets, >$1B ARR. • IPO-experienced CMO who led Rubrik's successful public debut (NYSE: RBRK). • Achieved top-right positions in 12 different Gartner Magic Quadrant categories with 6 companies. • Proven marketing executive with 20+ years driving category-defining growth at scale.

Experience

Self-employed

Sabbatical & Strategic Advisory

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Taking my first career break in 25 years to prioritize health, family and well-being. Actively advising and investing in startups, and supporting VC/private equity firms. Ridge Ventures CMO Advisory Board.

Rubrik

Chief Marketing Officer, advisor

May 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Cyber Resilience Platform | From $510m to $1.1B Subscription ARR | 47% and 43% YoY Growth.
  • Led complete marketing transformation driving successful IPO and market leadership position:
  • Delivered 47% and 43% growth on flat budgets by deploying AI at scale and establishing center of
  • excellence in India.
  • Market Positioning: evolving from old back-up and recovery, re-positioned Rubrik as definitive
  • cyber resilience leader in a market disrupted by ransomware and ever evolving threats.
  • Category Leadership: Created and defined Cyber Resilience category, achieving #9 ranking in
  • Forbes Cloud 100 and top-right and most visionary Leader position in Gartner Magic Quadrant.
  • IPO Excellence: Orchestrated successful NYSE debut (April 2024).
  • Pipeline Generation: Delivered over $2B ACV pipeline per year.
  • Brand Amplification: Negotiated groundbreaking terms with NYSE, transforming
  • IPO into phenomenal brand awareness campaign that doubled share of voice vs. competitors.
  • Event Innovation: Built virtual event capabilities, delivering 20K+ attendees per quarter.
Marketing TransformationMarket PositioningCategory LeadershipIPO ExcellencePipeline GenerationBrand Amplification+3

Blackline

Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer

Sep 2018May 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, CA and Woodland Hills, CA

  • SaaS modern accounting platform | From $200m to $550m ARR | 2023: $591m revenue
  • Led four global business functions—Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, and GTM
  • Enablement—with operational accountability for 250 employees. Mandate included product
  • innovation, M&A and corporate development, competitive intelligence, packaging and pricing
  • strategy, demand generation, digital/partner/channel marketing, brand, analyst relations, and
  • enablement across all commercial teams.
  • Revamped positioning, messaging, and sales resources, driving accelerated pipeline growth.
  • Spearheaded go-to-market partnerships—enabled BlackLine to become SAP’s fastest-growing
  • cloud partner in its first reseller year.
  • Built and transformed a high-performing BDR team that supplied 45 top sales reps, including half
  • of the company’s top 10 sellers.
  • Launched a customer advocacy program with 4,000 champions and 2,000 public reviews,
  • quadrupling reference accounts.
  • Evolved global events towards pipeline acceleration. BeyondTheBlack series attracted 26K people,
  • 4x prospects, 69% of customers and over $300 ARR in the room. NPS 83 in 2022.
  • Optimized marketing tech stack for speed and efficiency; deployed large-scale ABM.
  • Increased share of voice among SaaS Finance & Accounting vendors from 9% to 14%.
StrategyMarketingBusiness DevelopmentGTM EnablementDemand GenerationDigital Marketing+1

Calliduscloud

Chief Marketing Officer - SVP, Alliances, Channels, and Marketing

May 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Acquired by SAP for $2.5 billion in 2018 | Cloud sales operations, compensation, and learning
  • solutions | 2018 $320m revenue | Rule of 40 company: Growth 30%, Opt. Income 10%
  • Reporting to the CEO, managed all marketing functions and relationships with ISVs (i.e. Salesforce, SAP) and Systems Integrators (i.e. Accenture).
  • Harmonized positioning and messaging after integrating 4 acquisitions to accelerate growth.
  • Doubled rate of creation of pipeline creation while keeping a flat YoY budget.
  • Established partnership with Microsoft, expanded relationship with Salesforce and Accenture.
  • Nurtured nascent OEM relationship with SAP, becoming SAP’s fastest growing OEM partner.
  • Brought SAP CEO as keynote speaker at annual conference. Acquisition conversations started.
  • Ranked CallidusCloud as THE leader in Gartner Sales Performance Management Magic Quadrant.
MarketingSales OperationsPartnership ManagementPipeline CreationMarketing Strategy

Aria systems

Chief Marketing Officer

Nov 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Cloud billing, subscription & revenue management | VCs: Bain Capital, Hummer Winblad |
  • 240 employees | Customers: Adobe, Audi, Experian, Pitney Bowes, Roku, ZipCar
  • Reporting to the CEO, responsible for brand strategy, corporate and product marketing, vertical strategy, analyst relations, demand creation, market development (SDRs/tele), RFx responses, social media, PR and communications, sales enablement and training.
  • Multiplied by 2.4x the Pipeline/Spend ratio: created 49% more pipeline spending 40% less money.
  • Revamped demand generation with an Account Based Marketing (ABM) strategy and cutting edge technology.
  • Doubled the productivity per Sales Development Representative (meetings and opportunities).
  • Revamped marketing tech stack. Refined lead scoring, nurture tracks, sales SLAs and processes.
  • Developed and rolled out new positioning and messaging. Developed 1st ever Pricelist.
  • Standardized sales content with packaged Sales Kits and RFP tool. Grew 8x available references.
  • Earned and marketed top ratings by 5 analyst firms (Gartner, Forrester, MGI, TEC, Blue Hill).
Brand StrategyDemand GenerationMarket DevelopmentSales EnablementMarketing StrategySales Operations

Steelwedge - acquired by e2open

Chief Marketing Officer

Oct 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Acquired by E2Open | Leader in cloud supply chain planning | 200 in Deloitte FAST 500 |
  • 420 employees | Customers: HP, Lenovo, Nissan, Jaguar, Toshiba, Monsanto
  • Positioned Steelwedge as the absolute leader in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) market.
  • Raised $22.5m in March 2015 from Camden Partners and Mainsail Partners.
  • Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for S&OP; Visionary in the MQ for Supply Chain Planning.
  • Transformational marketing plan delivered 5.2x pipeline coverage; influenced 100% of closed deals.
Sales & Operations PlanningPipeline CoverageMarket PositioningMarketing StrategySales Operations

Sap

2 roles

Global Head of Solution Marketing, Line of Business Supply Chain Management

Promoted

Jun 2007Oct 2013 · 6 yrs 4 mos

  • Marketed the logistics and supply chain suite (€1.3B annual revenue, 6,000+ customers). Strategy, positioning, awareness, demand gen for 20 solutions. Launched 6 new solutions.
  • Grew Logistics Software revenues 165% in 2010 and 112% in 2011. Grew market share by 50%.
  • Took SAP to leadership in market share in the $1B/year Transportation Management market.
  • Turned around SAP warehouse management product. Grew revenue 550% between 2009 and 2011.
  • Drove high impact global marketing plan: 126 external events in 5 continents in 2011; 143 in 2012.
  • Integrated SMARTOPS acquisition and launched SAP’s first supply chain SaaS solution.
  • Changed Gartner negative perception, engineered Leader positions in Quadrants for WMS & TMS.
Logistics Software MarketingDemand GenerationMarket Share GrowthMarketing StrategySales Operations

Global Director, Real World Awareness Program (Auto-ID and IoT - Internet of Things)

Apr 2004Jun 2007 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Created industry-specific auto-ID solutions for logistics, asset management, and anti-counterfeiting.
  • 0 to 350 customers in 3 years, $120 million in revenue. Team received MVP SAP Labs Award, 2006.
  • Evangelist featured at key conferences (RFID Journal, RFID World, Sensors Expo, SAPPHIRE).
Auto-ID SolutionsRevenue GrowthCustomer AcquisitionMarketing StrategySales Operations

Siebel systems

Group Manager, WW Sales Operations

Sep 1999Apr 2004 · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Siebel Systems created the CRM category. It was the Fastest Growing Company 1999-2001 in USA. Acquired by ORACLE for $5.9B
  • Provided strategic planning and analytical and process support to EVP of Global Sales.
  • Managed weekly sales forecast and execution process for opportunities over $1M.
  • Created Sales Analytics, 1st ever Business Intelligence solution for territory and pipeline mgmt.
Sales OperationsBusiness IntelligenceStrategic Planning

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and Certificate in Public Management (PMP).

Jan 1997Jan 1999

Universidad de Los Andes

BS — Industrial Engineering

Jan 1990Jan 1995

Gimnasio Moderno

Bachiller — High School

Jan 1975Jan 1988

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