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# 2019’s most influential product marketers are HERE!
- URL: https://www.productmarketingalliance.com/2019s-most-influential-product-marketers-are-here/
- Published: 2019-12-19T13:25:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-12T15:25:01.000Z
- Description: To celebrate an awesome year and mark the start of a new annual tradition, we’ve compiled a list of 2019’s Top 50 Product Marketing Influencers.
- Author: Richard King
- Tags: Leadership

As far as years go, 2019’s been a pretty good one in the world of [product marketing](https://supertesting.productmarketingalliance.com/what-is-product-marketing/). The role’s on the rise, communities like ours have really kicked off 💁🏼‍♀️, and the industry's future is looking very, very bright.  

So, to celebrate an awesome year and mark the start of a new annual tradition, we’ve compiled a list of 2019’s **Top 50 Product Marketing Influencers**.  

**📕*Head to the full report here.***

  
You can find out how the list came to be at the end but for those who’re itching to know who made the cut, here are our final 50 (in alphabetical order for complete objectivity!):  

**1\. Aaron Brennan** \- Director of Product Marketing at airSlate

**2\. Amy Saper** \- Venture Capitalist at Accel

**3\. Anand Akela** \- Product Marketing Leader at Nutanix

**4\. April Dunford** \- Speaker, Author, CEO at Ambient Strategy

**5\. Ashwin Somakumar** \- Head of Product Marketing at OpenTable

**6\. Axel Kirstetter** \- VP of Product Marketing, Content Marketing & Pricing at Merill Corp

**7\. Bill Trinen** \- Director of Product Marketing at Nintendo of America

**8\. Carol Carpenter** \- VP of Product Marketing at Google Cloud

**9\. Christophe Wilhelm** \- Chief Revenue Officer at Spoonflower

**10\. Dain Hansen** \- VP of Product Marketing for Cloud Platform (PaaS/IaaS) at Oracle

**11\. Dan Leveille** \- Director of Product Marketing at DeviantArt

**12\. Daniel Lahl** \- Vice President of Product Marketing at SAP

**13\. Daniel Murphy** \- Director of Product Marketing at Drift

**14\. David Johnson** \- Senior Director of Product Marketing at Model N

**15\. Div Manickam** \- Director of Portfolio Messaging (Product, Industry, and Solutions) at Boomi

**16\. Elizabeth Brigham** \- Head of Product Marketing (Software) at Morningstar

**17\. Francis Larkin** \- VP of Product Marketing at InVision

**18\. Jarod Greene** \- VP Product Marketing at Apptio

**19\. Jen Snell** \- Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing at Verint

**20\. Jeremy Wood** \- Head of Product Marketing (APAC) at Adobe

**21\. John Heywood** \- Director of Product Marketing, Service Cloud at Salesforce

**22\. John Woods** \- Tech & Entertainment Marketing Leader

**23\. Jonathan Cowan** \- Vice President, Product at Sage

**24\. Julie Triolo** \- Vice President, Product Marketing at WarnerMedia

**25\. Justin Pirie** \- Senior Product Marketing Manager at Twilio

**26\. Kevin Mole** \- VP of Product Marketing at Ripple

**27\. Krista Seiden** \- Founder & Principal Consultant at KS Digital

**28\. Lindsay Bayuk** \- VP of Portfolio Marketing at Pluralsight

**29\. Liza Collin** \- Market Readiness Director at Visma

**30\. Liza Sperling** \- Head of Product Marketing at Upwork

**31\. Margaret Dawson** \- Vice President, Portfolio Product Marketing at Red Hat

**32\. Mark Bloom** \- Director of Product Marketing at Zendesk

**33\. Marla Schimke** \- Head of Product Marketing, Business Management Solutions at Broadcom

**34\. Martin Aguinis** \- Product Marketing Manager at Flutter, a Google company

**35\. Marvin Chow** \- Vice President, Global Marketing at Google

**36\. Meghan Keaney Anderson** \- Vice President of Marketing at HubSpot

**37\. Meghann York** \- Vice President of Product Marketing at Ticketmaster

**38\. Michael Tchao** \- VP Product Marketing at Apple Inc.

**39\. Pedram Yasharel** \- Director of Product Marketing at Smartly.io

**40\. Priya Doty** \- Vice President, Product Marketing at IBM

**41\. Richard Seroter** \- VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal

**42\. Richard Leonarz** \- Director of Product Marketing at Samsung

**43\. Serena Ehrlich** \- Director of Product Marketing at Business Wire

**44\. Stephanie Buscemi** \- EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce

**45\. Sudeep Eldo Cherian** \- Director, Head of Global Product Marketing at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

**46\. Susan Park** \- Head of Gaming Ads Product Marketing at Facebook

**47\. Todd Tauber** \- Vice President of Product Marketing at Degreed

**48\. Ty Heath** \- Global Lead, The B2B Institute at LinkedIn

**49\. William Chia** \- Senior Product Marketing Manager at GitLab

**50\. Yoni Solomon** \- Head of Product Marketing at G2  

Download the full report [**HERE**](https://www.productmarketingalliance.com/top-50-product-marketing-influencers/) for more info on each and mini Q&As throughout.  

**Richard King, Founder of PMA**, said: 

> “2019’s been a year of firsts for us and this is yet another report I’ve been really excited about and if we want to continue elevating the role of product marketing, we **need** people like this list to help us drive awareness.  

> “Of course, there are tonnes more product marketers who excel in driving the role forward and this list was really hard to narrow down, but we look forward to celebrating lots more awesome product marketers in the coming years.”

## Already can’t wait until next year?  

Us neither! This is the first of our influencer lists and we’ll be back in 2020 with another batch of 50 inspiring product marketers. If you’ve got someone you want to put forward already, [drop us a line](mailto:richard@productmarketingalliance.com), let us know who they are, and we’ll make sure they’re represented in the shortlisting process. 

## What makes an influencer an influencer?  

Each of the 50 influencers who made the cut were handpicked by PMA ambassadors based on a careful review of the space, studying a range of metrics and surveying other product marketers to see who’s most influenced them in their careers and day-to-day.