Melissa Puls

CEO

Boston, Massachusetts, United States32 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of marketing and business development experience.
  • Proven track record in customer-centric marketing strategies.
  • Led successful marketing initiatives for multiple high-profile companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing executive with extensive experience in customer success and integrated marketing strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Marketing StrategyBusiness Development

Other Skills

Account ManagementAnalysisAnalyticsBudgetsBusiness AlliancesBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCRMChannel PartnersCloud ComputingComplex SalesCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer ServiceDemand Generation

About

High-energy, results-oriented marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience in marketing and business development in the technology. Proven track record of developing successful, marketing programs that deliver bottom-line results. Experienced leader with the ability to build and manage, highly effective centralized or decentralized teams. Bio: Melissa is Ivanti’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Senior Vice President Customer Success and responsible for all aspects of the Ivanti customer journey, from initial awareness to purchase, adoption, expansion and renewal – ensuring organizations maximize the value of Ivanti’s solutions for greater outcomes. Melissa is passionate about all phases of the customer experience and brings decades of experience to Ivanti with a strong track record of fueling growth through a customer-centric approach and integrated marketing strategies for acquired companies. She was most recently senior vice president and CMO at Avid. Prior to this role, Melissa also held CMO and marketing leadership positions with Optanix, Progress, Iron Mountain and Infor. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and psychology from Franklin Pierce University.

Experience

32 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Ivanti

2 roles

Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, Customer Success & Renewals

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

Oct 2020Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Chief

Member

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Chief is a private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. Chief is the only organization specifically designed for senior women leaders to strengthen their leadership journey, cross-pollinate ideas across industries, and affect change from the top down. I am honored to have joined the UK chapter as a founding member.

Avid

Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

Mar 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Burlington, MA

  • Behind award-winning films, videos, music recordings, TV shows, live concerts and news broadcasts is Avid Everywhere — providing content creators with the tools to make, manage, store, distribute and monetize content.

Progress

SVP and Chief Marketing Officer

Oct 2014Oct 2017 · 3 yrs

Iron mountain

Vice President Global Marketing

Feb 2011Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Infor

4 roles

Vice President, Worldwide Business Development

Jun 2010Feb 2011 · 8 mos

  • Manage a global team of business development professionals who are responsible for building and nurturing pipeline for the 3rd largest ERP company in the world.

Vice President Global Marketing

Jan 2008Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Led product positioning and demand generation activities for North America, Latin America and South America for $2.3B provider of enterprise software applications.

Vice President, Global Solutions Marketing

Promoted

Jan 2002Jan 2008 · 6 yrs

  • Head of solutions marketing for 700+ million global enterprise software organization and is accountable for creating the global marketing strategy across all SSA Global solutions. The objective of the solution marketing team is to enable the best return on marketing dollars by building global marketing strategies, plans, and campaigns that help drive the company to exceed revenue goals.
  • Key Achievments:
  • Marketing lead for successful Initial Public Offering (IPO)
  • Created the first solutions marketing organization from the ground up
  • Delivered new products to market, resulting in organic revenue growth of 18%
  • Managed the marketing integration of 9 acquisitions. The company grew from 175 million to $700 million in revenue in 3 years
  • Increased awareness and enhanced the perception of SSA Global by increasing the analyst briefings from average of 2 per quarter to 2 per week and solution press releases from 1 per quarter to 5

Director of Solution Marketing

Jan 1999Jan 2002 · 3 yrs

  • Responsible for creating and executing integrated marketing strategy for key target industries. Developed consistent messaging and positioning, which was adopted by sales, service, support and executive team members. Evangelized product positioning to industry analysts, press, customers, sales representatives and executive team. Developed solution bundled packages, motivating sales to sell solutions and customers to buy products.
  • Key Achievements:
  • Executed market segmentation and analysis which defined three key strategic markets; Hospitality, Process Manufacturing and Healthcare, resulting in increased revenue and profitability
  • Managed the integrated marketing launch for new ERP, HR, and Financial Management solutions, increasing revenue by 15% in one year.
  • Provided sales support, enabling sales to maximize qualified lead pipeline and reduce average sales cycle from 12 to 9 months

Kronos

Industry Marketing Manager

Jan 1994Jan 1999 · 5 yrs

  • Responsible for successfully delivering labor management solutions to the manufacuring industry. Developed and managed a global budget for manufacturing business unit. Influenced global revenue objectives by providing quanitifyable data to support the market opportunity and product competitiveness
  • Key Achievements:
  • Developed lead generation programs which resulted in more than 20% increase in manufacturing divisions’ sales pipeline in first year
  • Managed the launch of new manufacturing solutions, increasing revenue of product by 15% in first six months
  • Created 60 customer stories and references for manufacturing division
  • Created standardized packaging for all Kronos manuals, product CD’s, implementation kits, and other delivery materials

Education

Franklin Pierce University

Bachelor's degree — Communications and Psychology

Jan 1991Jan 1995

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