Closing CyberCMO Summit Conversation: What Do You Need from This Community?

Mary Yang has been a Chief Marketing Officer for several startups, jumpstarting their marketing programs and positioning them for successful exits. Mary got her start in cybersecurity at MITRE, managing cybersecurity projects and initiatives across NIST, DOD, and DHS. She also provided cybersecurity research and trend insight to MITRE’s corporate cybersecurity strategy office on special initiatives, such as deception, digital identity, and privacy.  

Mary has over 20 years of experience in marketing and communications, supporting multiple technology organizations at varying levels of maturity, including a government technology start-up and a publicly traded enterprise resource planning software vendor, across several sectors.

As a four-time CMO, Charles brings more than 25 years of in-the-trenches marketing, product management, and business development leadership experience in high-growth cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure software companies. Charles has been instrumental in developing and executing growth strategies at category leaders like ThreatConnect Virtru, Sonatype, FireMon, Progress Software, Red Hat, and others.After ThreatConnect's recent $290M exit to Dataminr, he founded CyberG2M Advisors to help early and growth stage CEOs and revenue leaders to build durable, efficient go-to-market motions.