Sonja Keerl is a MACH Alliance co-founder and industry Firestarter, challenging the status quo of the enterprise software industry in every role she’s had. A fierce believer in forward-thinking and taking chances, Constructor.io is the most recent benefactor to her grit and commitment. As the organization’s Vice President, Product Marketing, Sonja brings two decades of digital industry experience in the areas of marketing, business development, and services. Previously she worked for digital experience vendors Contentstack, Bloomreach, and SDL. She is a mother of three very active kids, is based near Amsterdam, and loves adventure, travel, and great wine.

A 30-year marketing industry veteran, Lori Jones is as known for her keen business and fashion sense as she is as a marketing integration guru. Experienced across multiple adjacent disciplines such as marketing, advertising, PR, and digital and social programming, she truly shines in bringing each of those areas together. Bold in her beliefs, she doesn’t subscribe to the “business as usual” type of thinking but rather lives and works by the notion of “business as [un]usual” delivering results by outthinking our clients’ competitors within asset-intensive industries. Aside from her role as Mom to four, she is also President, CEO, and Director of Strategic Development at Avocet Communications, a family business founded by her father in the early 1980s.

Susan Hunter is an HR consultant and diversity, equity, and inclusion strategist. An avid reader and an incurable chocolate lover – not necessarily in that order. Her commitment to causes she believes in helped her flourish with firms like Aon Hewitt and Willis Towers Watson. She now applies that passion for fueling her own personal, professional, and financial freedom working with clients to solve their problems and making HR accessible and easy.

Cori Caldwell had a successful 20-plus-year relationship with Silicon Valley companies like VMWare, Symantec, and Cisco before a series of life-changing events brought her marketing and communications career to a crossroads. Taking stock in all facets of her life – work, social, and health – she chose the path less traveled and embarked on a new adventure. Leveraging what she knew and had learned from working her high-pressure tech-gigs, she turned those lessons into a passion career as a work-life coach to help others find and follow their best lives.

Michelle Andersen’s career has spanned more than 20 years as a marketing communications professional, and she’s just getting revved up. Her work and career have been led by her passions, almost always involving music and technology. Starting as a music publicist, working with Lawrence Welk-owned Vanguard Records, she evolved her career through working with consumer technology brands and filling her soul with philanthropies, including the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. Most recently, Michelle joined NextTech Communications, a women-led agency born from The Bliss Group, as vice president and is excited to bring her go-for-it approach to live to her new adventure.

Amy Budd is a global marketing leader with 20-plus years of experience leading high-performance teams in technology companies. A firm believer that success comes from a blend of serendipity, courage, and skill, she recognizes her good fortune in having had leaders who were willing to take a chance on her early in her career. Her current gig with Qlik as the Vice President of Field & Partner Marketing has brought together her training and experience in corporate marketing, field marketing, and events planning.

One of the most insightful people in the tech industry, Anjali Yukkandi leads the global product marketing efforts Movable Ink as its Vice President of Product Marketing. Starting off in the tech industry as an industry analyst with Forrester Research, she has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, CIO Magazine, and The Economic Times covering a range of topics from customer experience to dam to lessons learned from being a working mom.

A self-proclaimed Germanized American, Jessica Bergmann embraces life with a “do no harm, take no shit” attitude. Whether leading a team of content experts at Salesforce or thinking about how to revolutionize the shoe industry, she understands the role balance plays in long-term success. Her journey has taken her from Kansas City to Germany to San Francisco. An adventurer and list-making enthusiast, listen to this episode to hear how taking chances that are fueled by a long-game vision can lead to fulfilling lifelong dreams.

Caroline Kay is an entrepreneur, business and success coach, growth consultant, and fellow podcaster. She has a knack for sales, the gift of gab, and the power to persuade and you don’t even realize it, which is what makes her such an in-demand coach. She has a passion for creativity and helping people and has evolved her passion for art and teaching to create a unique space where she gets to meet really interesting people, work with fantastic companies, and continue her own adventures in learning.

As the GM of Informa's The Content Marketing Institute, Stephanie Stahl leads the brand’s event and digital operations – and gets to work with the best team on the planet! From dreaming of being an editor to doing just that and so much more, Stephanie understands that content is the critical component to delivering experiences and connecting with audiences.