Mark Kilens

CEO

Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led HubSpot Academy, educating millions globally.
  • Transformed Drift's community into a key revenue driver.
  • Pioneered People-first GTM strategies at TACK.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing leader with expertise in go-to-market strategies and community building.

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Sales & Marketing LeadershipGo-to-market Strategy

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AnalyticsB2BB2B MarketingBlog MarketingBloggingBlogging SoftwareConsultative Selling StyleContent DevelopmentContent MarketingContent StrategyConversion OptimizationDigital MarketingDigital StrategyEmail MarketingFacebook

About

Mark Kilens is VP of Marketing at EasyLlama and Founder of TACK. EasyLlama is an all-in-one compliance and learning platform that reduces human risk and increases team productivity across your entire workforce. TACK modernizes how businesses go-to-market to create, capture, and convert demand into revenue using its proprietary People-first GTM Model. He previously was CMO of Airmeet, a leading virtual and hybrid event platform. He oversaw Airmeet’s global marketing team responsible for brand, demand, lifecycle, and product marketing. Before that he was the VP of Content and Community at Drift where he led the brand, content, creative, and events teams. He oversaw Drift’s community, Drift Insider, which has 65,000+ members, and Drift’s FLASH, RevGrowth, and HYPERGROWTH events. Prior to joining Drift, he served as VP of Marketing and founder of HubSpot Academy. As a former customer, Mark joined HubSpot in 2010 where he spent two years working with thousands of HubSpot customers to scale their inbound strategy. From there, he went on to build HubSpot Academy from the ground up, and in doing so, educated and certified millions of people and helped grow HubSpot to more than $600 million in revenue. When he’s not working, Mark enjoys plenty of steak and lobster, a round of golf or two, and loves being on snow or in the ocean. Go fast, take chances!

Experience

Easyllama

VP of Marketing

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • I lead the marketing team at EasyLlama, an all-in-one compliance and learning platform. We help businesses reduce human risk and increase team productivity across their entire workforce.
Sales & Marketing LeadershipGo-to-Market Strategy

Tack

Founder

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

  • TACK is a go-to-market community and consulting firm helping startups and scaleups match how they go-to-market to how people buy. We modernize how businesses go-to-market to create, capture, and convert demand into revenue.
  • Companies like Commsor, ZoomInfo, Swoogo, Coursera, Aiven, CloudBees, Audette, Navattic, and more partner with TACK to evolve how they go-to-market using a People-first GTM approach.
  • Its mission is to match how companies go-to-market to how people buy by making every experience and interaction with a business more human.
  • TACK Insider is a community for marketers looking to learn how to become go-to-market leader. Members learn how to use seven different growth strategies that are all part of the People-first GTM Model. The membership and community comes with hundreds of resources, weekly masterclasses, and personalized coaching.
  • TACK GTM is an on-demand go-to-market services and consulting firm specializing in People-first GTM strategies and services that grow pipeline and revenue. We partner with CEOs, Founders, and Marketing Leaders to design and deploy People-first GTM strategies.
  • Chart your go-to-market with TACK.
Go-to-Market StrategySales & Marketing Leadership

Airmeet

Chief Marketing Officer

Apr 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Massachusetts, United States

  • Airmeet helps marketers book more meetings and create pipeline faster using premium webinars and online events.
  • Airmeet's Event Experience Cloud is an all-in-one premium webinar and event platform helping B2B businesses generate more pipeline and revenue.
  • I lead Airmeet’s global marketing team and are working to advance the event-led growth movement.
Go-to-Market StrategySales & Marketing Leadership

Stage 2 capital

Limited Partner and Advisor

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • The Stage 2 Capital Catalyst supports early stage B2B software companies in scaling their businesses by combining Venture Capital and Go-To-Market, empowering founders with hands-on coaching from an unrivaled network of go-to-market leaders.
Go-to-Market Strategy

Drift

Vice President of Content and Community

Jan 2019Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Boston, Massachusetts

  • Content and community are key ingredients to accelerating a business's revenue, delivering more customer value, and building an enduring brand.
  • My team's partner with Drift's marketing, sales, and customers success teams to develop the right content, programs, and experiences to accelerate revenue, deliver more value to our customers, and grow Drift’s brand.
  • Get your 100% free Drift Insider account. https://www.drift.com/insider/
  • Check out a couple of Drift's newest digital books. https://www.drift.com/books/
  • The Conversational Marketing Blueprint: https://www.drift.com/books/conversational-marketing-blueprint/
  • The Guide to Conversational ABM: https://www.drift.com/books/conversational-abm/
  • Learn something new on Drift's blog: https://www.drift.com/blog/
Go-to-Market Strategy

Hubspot

4 roles

Vice President of HubSpot Academy

Promoted

Dec 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr

  • I was the VP of Marketing and founder of HubSpot Academy.
  • HubSpot Academy is a global learning community and platform with millions of people in more than 200 countries.
  • It’s a tremendous growth driver of demand and interest - signing up and certifying tens of thousands of new HubSot users and community members every month.
  • We focused on converting free users into software revenue and helped retain and grow that revenue by building onboarding, expansion, and community programs.
  • I had the honor and privilege to lead a team of extremely passionate, motivated, and intelligent people.
  • HubSpot Academy's purpose is to educate and inspire people so that we, together, transform the way the world does business.
  • We created content and education to teach people the inbound methodology and how to use the HubSpot platform to grow their business.
Go-to-Market Strategy

Director of HubSpot Academy

Promoted

May 2012Nov 2017 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • HubSpot Academy was launched in May 2012 after running it as an experiment for 18 months.
  • I was responsible for creating the Inbound Methodology with Brain Halligan and Dharmesh Shah.
  • I updated the original methodology in early 2018 to HubSpot's new Inbound flywheel model.
  • We created content and education to teach people the inbound methodology and how to use the HubSpot platform to grow their business.
  • HubSpot Academy's purpose is to educate and inspire people so that we, together, transform the way the world does business.

Senior Inbound Marketing Consultant

Promoted

Jul 2011Apr 2012 · 9 mos

  • I was a Senior Inbound Marketing Consultant at HubSpot. I worked with B2B and B2C businesses helping them create, execute, and measure their inbound marketing goals and strategies.

Inbound Marketing Consultant

Jun 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I joined HubSpot as an Inbound Marketing Consultant. I trained businesses how to use HubSpot to get found, convert leads, close leads into customers, and analyze their results.

Salesquest

3 roles

Director of Marketing

Promoted

Dec 2009May 2010 · 5 mos

  • I was responsible for email marketing campaigns, building prospect and customer databases, social media, inbound marketing, lead generation, the website, and helped create new products and services.

Manager, Marketing and Operations

Promoted

Mar 2009Dec 2009 · 9 mos

  • I managed a team of market research analysts that created and maintained a library of more than 850 Fortune 1000 and Global 500 company profiles.
  • I was responsible for all inbound marketing activities, SEO, social media, and marketing campaigns.

Research Analyst

Feb 2008Feb 2009 · 1 yr

  • I performed research on Fortune 1000 companies which included investigating their technology implementations, org charts, budgets, financials, and operating models.

Education

University of New Hampshire

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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