Mark Kilens — CEO
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!
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing leader with expertise in go-to-market strategies and community building.
Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Experience: 17 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Sales & Marketing Leadership
- Go-to-market Strategy
Career Highlights
- Led HubSpot Academy, educating millions globally.
- Transformed Drift's community into a key revenue driver.
- Pioneered People-first GTM strategies at TACK.
Work Experience
EasyLlama
VP of Marketing (11 mos)
TACK
Founder (2 yrs 7 mos)
Airmeet
Chief Marketing Officer (1 yr 3 mos)
Stage 2 Capital
Limited Partner and Advisor (5 yrs 9 mos)
Drift
Vice President of Content and Community (3 yrs 2 mos)
HubSpot
Vice President of HubSpot Academy (1 yr)
Director of HubSpot Academy (5 yrs 6 mos)
Senior Inbound Marketing Consultant (9 mos)
Inbound Marketing Consultant (1 yr 1 mo)
SalesQuest
Director of Marketing (5 mos)
Manager, Marketing and Operations (9 mos)
Research Analyst (1 yr)
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of New Hampshire