Brian Kardon

Brian Kardon is a transformational leader, advisor and marketer.
He has managed customer acquisition to adoption and advocacy with experience at businesses ranging from startups to global billion-dollar organizations.
He is a results-oriented executive with 25+ years of experience creating and implementing successful growth strategies, penetrating new markets, and developing products people love.
Brian began his career in consulting with Deloitte, where Brian became one of the youngest partners in the firm’s history and helped lead their global marketing strategy practice.
He left consulting to become an operator as CMO at Reed Business Information (NYSE: RELX), the largest B2B publisher in the world.
Brian later joined Forrester Research (NASDAQ: FORR) as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer where he helped turn the brand into a leader in the technology research sector.
Brian moved to software in 2008, joining Eloqua in 2008 as CMO where he was part of the team that led Eloqua’s explosive growth and leadership in the marketing automation sector, resulting in a successful IPO and subsequent purchase by Oracle.
Most recently, Brian was Chief Marketing Officer of InVision, the digital product design platform and Fuze, a cloud-based communications platform.
During his four years at Fuze, the company grew from $30M to >$125M in revenue, Fuze was named the market “Leader” by Forrester Research, and the Fuze marketing team won the prestigious SiriusDecisions ROI Award for Demand Creation.
Today, Brian is among the most successful marketing executives in the world of technology.
He has been named to several new lists: “50 Most Influential CMOs on Social Media” (Forbes), “100 Most Influential Chief Marketing Officers in the World” (Richtopia) and the “30 Tech Marketing Leaders Changing the Industry” (Synthesio).
Brian received his BS and MBA degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.