Pipeline, Issue 01: 20 marketers building pipeline at private $1B+ companies.
Pipeline, Issue 01 profiles 20 marketing and growth leaders at private companies worth $1B or more, from Anthropic and OpenAI to Gong and Vanta. Between them, the 20 companies are valued at about $2.5T. Each person gets a magazine cover, a profile and the story of the company they market.
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What do these 20 marketers have in common?
- 13 of the 20 have CMO in their title. In the Series A issue it was 4 of 12, so the person building pipeline moves into the C-suite as a company grows.
- 7 of the 20 joined their company in the last 16 months, including 3 in 2026: Rachel Hepworth at Harvey, Colin Fleming at OpenAI and Brian Hall at Mistral AI.
- 3 of them grew up inside the company. Zach Kitschke was Canva's fifth hire in 2013, Antoine Le Nel joined Revolut as VP Growth in 2021 and Sarah Scharf went from Vanta's first product marketer to its CMO.
- 2 of the companies ran their first Super Bowl ads in 2026, Anthropic and Zapier. Anthropic's campaign won the Film Grand Prix at Cannes.
The 20 on the covers
Sasha de Marigny
Cover 01 · Chief Brand and Communications Officer, Anthropic
Sasha de Marigny is the Chief Brand and Communications Officer at Anthropic. Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds the Claude family of AI models.
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Colin Fleming
Cover 02 · CMO, Business, OpenAI
Colin Fleming is Chief Marketing Officer, Business, at OpenAI. He joined in May 2026. OpenAI builds ChatGPT and the GPT family of AI models, which it sells to consumers, developers and enterprises.
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Rick Schultz
Cover 03 · CMO, Databricks
Rick Schultz is the CMO of Databricks. He joined in 2017. Databricks sells a data and AI platform, the lakehouse, where companies store and analyse their data and build AI on it.
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Jeff Titterton
Cover 04 · CMO, Stripe
Jeff Titterton is the CMO of Stripe. He joined in November 2022. Stripe builds the payments and financial infrastructure that internet businesses use to accept money and run their finances.
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Antoine Le Nel
Cover 05 · Global Chief Growth and Marketing Officer, Revolut
Antoine Le Nel is Global Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Revolut. He joined in 2021 as VP Growth. Revolut is a global finance app for banking, cards, payments, currency exchange, savings and investing.
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George Bonaci
Cover 06 · VP of Growth, Ramp
George Bonaci is VP of Growth and Demand Gen at Ramp. Ramp sells corporate cards plus expense, bill-pay and procurement software that automates company spending.
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Zach Kitschke
Cover 07 · Global CMO, Canva
Zach Kitschke is the Global CMO of Canva. He joined in 2013 as its fifth hire and has been CMO since 2021. Canva is an online design platform for making presentations, social posts, documents and videos.
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Brian Hall
Cover 08 · CMO, Mistral AI
Brian Hall is the CMO of Mistral AI. He joined in June 2026. Mistral AI is a Paris-based AI lab that builds open-weight and enterprise language models and sells sovereign AI deployments.
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Rachel Hepworth
Cover 09 · CMO, Harvey
Rachel Hepworth is the CMO of Harvey. She joined in April 2026. Harvey builds AI tools for lawyers and professional-services firms, covering research, drafting and contract review.
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Ceci Stallsmith
Cover 10 · CMO, Lovable
Ceci Stallsmith is the CMO of Lovable. She joined in September 2025 as Head of Marketing. Lovable is an AI app builder: you describe an app or website in chat and it builds working software.
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Ashling Kearns
Cover 11 · EVP Marketing and Global GTM COO, Celonis
Ashling Kearns runs marketing and go-to-market at Celonis as EVP Marketing and Global GTM COO. She joined in early 2023 as SVP Marketing. Celonis makes process-mining software that shows how a company's processes actually run and where they lose time and money.
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Luke Harries
Cover 12 · Head of Growth, ElevenLabs
Luke Harries is Head of Growth at ElevenLabs, where he has worked since at least June 2024. ElevenLabs makes AI voice software: text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing and conversational voice agents.
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Craig Cannon
Cover 13 · Head of DevRel and Marketing, Supabase
Craig Cannon is Head of Developer Relations and Marketing at Supabase. He joined in June 2024. Supabase is an open-source backend for developers: a Postgres database plus auth, storage and APIs.
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Keith Messick
Cover 14 · CMO, Vercel
Keith Messick is Vercel's first CMO. He joined in June 2025. Vercel is a cloud platform for building and deploying websites and AI apps. It makes Next.js and v0.
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Hannah Hughes
Cover 15 · CMO, Plaid
Hannah Hughes is the CMO of Plaid. She joined in December 2025. Plaid connects people's bank accounts to the fintech apps they use, through APIs for payments, identity and credit data.
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Matt Kixmoeller
Cover 16 · CMO, Glean
Matt Kixmoeller is the CMO of Glean. He joined in April 2024. Glean sells an enterprise AI assistant and search tool that works across a company's apps and documents.
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Bruno Estrella
Cover 17 · Head of Marketing, Clay
Bruno Estrella is Head of Marketing at Clay. He joined in December 2023 as Head of Growth Marketing. Clay is a go-to-market data platform that enriches lead and account data and automates outbound campaigns.
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Dan Slagen
Cover 18 · CMO and Chief AI Transformation Officer, Zapier
Dan Slagen is CMO and Chief AI Transformation Officer at Zapier. He joined around September 2025 as SVP Marketing and took both titles in July 2026. Zapier is no-code automation software that connects thousands of apps, so teams can build workflows and AI agents without engineers.
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Emily He
Cover 19 · CMO, Gong
Emily He is the CMO of Gong. She joined in May 2024. Gong is a revenue AI platform that records and analyses sales calls and emails to help teams forecast and close deals.
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Sarah Scharf
Cover 20 · CMO, Vanta
Sarah Scharf is the CMO of Vanta. She joined in 2020 as its first product marketer and was named CMO in August 2026. Vanta automates security compliance, such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001, plus trust management for companies.
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