Data infrastructure
10 CMOs in Data Infrastructure
These ten executives currently hold the chief marketing officer title at data infrastructure companies, including database, storage, streaming and data management vendors. A reader can learn how chief marketing officers build and run their teams in data infrastructure companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Ajay Khanna
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Yugabyte
Chief Marketing Officer at Yugabyte since February 2025; the profile describes Yugabyte as the company behind YugabyteDB, an open-source distributed SQL database. Ajay Khanna's profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer at Mezmo (2022–2025) and at Explorium (2021–2022), and Vice President Marketing at Reltio (2017–2021).
Erik Frieberg
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · MinIO
Chief Marketing Officer at MinIO since January 2025; the profile says MinIO provides exascale data infrastructure for AI, agentic computing and analytics. Erik Frieberg's profile also lists Senior Vice President Marketing at Pantheon (2023–2025), Chief Marketing Officer at solo.io (2020–2022) and Chief Marketing Officer at Perforce Puppet (2019–2020).
Gabie Boko
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · NetApp
Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp since January 2023. The profile describes NetApp as an intelligent data infrastructure company that offers enterprise-grade storage services, and Gabie Boko's headline reads "Turning Data into Clarity – and AI into Impact."
Jakki Glivicky Geiger
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Arango
Chief Marketing Officer at Arango since September 2025, with a headline about driving enterprise AI transformation through contextual AI data infrastructure. The profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer roles at Hazelcast (2023–2024), Pyramid Analytics (2021–2023) and Reltio (2019–2021), and a GTM Advisor role at Winning by Design (2025).
Jim Kruger
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President Chief Marketing Officer · Informatica
Executive Vice President Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica since January 2022; the profile describes Informatica as an enterprise cloud data management leader. Jim Kruger's profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer at Veeam Software (2019–2022), at Intermedia Intelligent Communications (2017) and at Polycom (2013–2017, with an Executive Vice President title).
Mary Wells
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Cloudera
Chief Marketing Officer at Cloudera since October 2023; the profile says Cloudera helps people transform their data into trusted enterprise AI. Mary Wells's profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer at ASG Technologies (2017–2022) and at Axeda Corporation (2010–2011), and VP, Software Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2011–2017).
May Petry
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · MongoDB
Chief Marketing Officer at MongoDB since May 2025, where the profile says May Petry leads a global marketing organization that drives product-led adoption and self-serve growth, and calls MongoDB a data platform for the AI era. Other MongoDB roles are Senior Vice President, Revenue Marketing (2024–2025) and Vice President, Digital and Growth (DiG) Marketing (2022–2024).
Melissa Czapiga
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Redpanda Data
Chief Marketing Officer at Redpanda Data since April 2026; the profile describes Redpanda as a streaming data platform compatible with Kafka APIs. Melissa Czapiga's profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer at Red Canary, a Zscaler company (2022–2026) and VP, Marketing (2022) and Senior Director, Corporate Marketing (2020–2022) at Salesforce.
Mitch Seigle
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Spectra Logic
Chief Marketing Officer at Spectra Logic since July 2023; the profile says Spectra Logic provides scalable data storage solutions for on-premises and cloud workflows. Mitch Seigle's profile also lists Chief Marketing Officer at Datera (2017–2018), Vice President of Marketing at Maxta,Inc. (2016–2017) and Founder and Chief Advisor at Finial Communications (2013–2023).
Will Davis
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · CData Software
Chief Marketing Officer at CData Software since May 2023; the profile describes CData as a real-time data connectivity company whose products give access to live data. Will Davis's profile also lists Vice President of Product Marketing at Workato (2021–2023) and Vice President of Marketing (2020–2021) and Head Of Marketing (2019–2020) at Trifacta.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you balance developer adoption programs with enterprise demand generation for a data product?
- 02How do you position a data platform when buyers compare it with open source alternatives and cloud provider services?
- 03Which marketing metrics do you report to the board, and how do you tie them to pipeline and revenue?
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