Lauren Nemeth

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in GTM leadership and executive roles.
Expertise in enterprise and developer-led sales strategies.
Guided six companies through successful acquisitions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and MarTech with extensive experience in revenue operations.

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Ad ExchangesAd ServingAd NetworksRich MediaDoubleClickDigital MediaBehavioral TargetingOnline AdvertisingSEMAdvertising OperationsDigital MarketingAdvertising SalesPPCAdvertisingStrategic Partnerships

About

Lauren Nemeth is a distinguished GTM leader and executive with over 20 years of experience in building exceptional businesses and commercializing innovative products. She is recognized globally for her expertise in enterprise, developer-led (PLG) and partner-led sales strategies. Lauren has successfully commercialized products for companies ranging from pre-revenue startups to established businesses generating $4.5+ billion in revenue. She has guided six companies through successful acquisitions and two through IPOs. Passionate about fostering highly motivated, accountable, and diverse teams, Lauren inspires her colleagues to approach challenges with enthusiasm and creativity. Her industry expertise spans AI, machine learning, infrastructure, communications, marketing automation, and two-sided marketplaces. Lauren lives in San Francisco, CA, with her husband and two children.

Experience

New relic

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lauren is the CRO of New Relic, the most widely used observability platform in the world. New Relic invented application performance monitoring (APM) and evolved it into an all-in-one observability platform that gives valuable insights and remediation to operators.

Pinecone

Chief Operating Officer

Jun 2024 – Jan 2025 · 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. As the Chief Operating Officer, Lauren leads the sales, marketing, developer relations, solutions engineering, revenue operations and support functions globally.

Twilio

4 roles

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Promoted

Feb 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Twilio's Communications Platform provides 300,000+ customers with the communications solutions (messaging, voice and email) required to optimally engage their customers. As CRO, Lauren oversees global sales, customer success, operations, support, field engineering, carrier relations and marketing across a $4B+ P&L.

SVP & GM, Communications Platform

Jun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 8 mos

Lauren oversees the R&D organization for Twilio's Communications Platform which encompasses Messaging, Voice, Video, Account Security, Phone Numbers, Channels and $3B+ in revenue.

SVP & GM, Messaging

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 3 mos

Lauren oversees the Messaging Business (Sales, Operations & Carrier Relations) and the Messaging R&D organization (Product, TPM, Design & Engineering).

VP & GM, Messaging Exchange

Sep 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Lauren oversees the $2B+ Messaging business across Sales, Operations and Carrier Relations.

Nextdoor

Chief Revenue Officer

Feb 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Nextdoor is the world’s largest social networking platform for neighbors. Lauren oversaw global revenue and business strategy by managing the sales, account management, business operations, business marketing, and revenue partnerships teams worldwide. Nextdoor's business lines are comprised of advertising, real estate, commerce, search, public agencies and local businesses.

Turn (acquired by singtel)

Chief Revenue Officer

Nov 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Turn is a global leading data management platform and marketing technology platform. Lauren managed $700M+ in annual recurring revenue, global sales, customer success, business operations, sales training, sales engineering, and product consulting across 14 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific territories.

Urx (acquired by pinterest)

Chief Operating Officer

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

URX is a deep linking software platform (which has since been acquired by Pinterest). Lauren was charged with bringing the company from pre-revenue to scaled revenue while leading sales, customer success, finance, business operations, and business development.

Xandr (acquired by microsoft)

Senior Vice President of Sales & General Manager

Jan 2010 – Oct 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

AppNexus is the world's leading advertising programmable platform and marketplace. Lauren joined AppNexus pre-revenue, built the global revenue organization from the ground up and directed global sales, account management and operations across 10 countries.

Google

Head of Sales, Google Ad Exchange

Jul 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater New York City Area

Lauren joined DoubleClick prior to the Google acquisition and led an 8-person sales team and account management team that focused on building a demand ecosystem for DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange.