CMO Unplugged: Building Talent for the Modern Marketing Structure

1:55 pm
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2:45 pm

As the cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolves in an AI era, so must the marketing structure and skills necessary for leaders and individual contributors for the modern marketing organization. This panel brings together leading CMOs from top cyber companies to share what are those top skills, how you can develop skills necessary to build stronger relationships with GTM teams, gain alignment cross-functionally and ultimately help you with career progression.

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Session Agenda

  • Focused content for teams working on CyberCMO Summit.
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  • Practical insights tailored to CyberMarketingCon attendees.
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  • Hear real-world lessons from practitioners in cybersecurity marketing.
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  • Walk away with ideas to improve your go-to-market execution.

Speakers

May Mitchell

Chief Marketing Officer

Qualys

May Mitchell

Chief Marketing Officer

Qualys

May Mitchell is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Qualys, where she spearheads global marketing strategy, drives business growth and pipeline contribution, collaborating closely with Sales and Partners to implement scalable programs that accelerate customer acquisition, retention, and expansion. With a proven track record in aligning marketing initiatives to corporate objectives, May plays a pivotal role in strengthening Qualys' market position as an industry leader in cybersecurity and risk management.

May brings over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity marketing, specializing in go-to-market strategies that deliver measurable impact. Her career includes 15 years in executive leadership, with three terms as CMO, at companies like HUMAN Security, Ontinue, iboss, Cylance, Symantec, Forcepoint, and McAfee, where she consistently drove innovation and growth.

May has been honored as one of CRN's Power 100 Women of the Channel for 13 consecutive years, named among the Top 50 Women in Cybersecurity by CyberScoop, and received the prestigious OnCon Top 50 Marketer Award for three consecutive years.

Brian Goldfarb

Chief Marketing Officer

SolarWinds

Brian Goldfarb

Chief Marketing Officer

SolarWinds

Brian Goldfarb is CMO at SolarWinds, leading global marketing for a portfolio that spans observability, database, and service management. He’s spent 20+ years at the intersection of tech and growth—launching Google Cloud Platform, scaling Azure and developer tools at Microsoft, and driving Salesforce’s platform business. At startups like Chef and Amperity, he’s helped build categories and GTM engines from the ground up.

As CMO at Splunk, Brian transformed marketing into a multi-product, multi-audience machine, helping expand beyond IT into cybersecurity and doubling revenue from $700M to nearly $1.5B. As CMO at Tenable, he introduced Tenable One, the company’s flagship exposure management platform. He’s a builder, a strategist, and a repeat driver of meaningful scale.

About this Session's Track

CyberCMO Summit

An exclusive, closed-door, CMO-only day of peer strategy discussions and roundtables where CMOs and heads of marketing exchange insights on leadership, strategy, and topics that resonate with the top of the marketing organization.