Tech Qualified

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Blair Felter, Marketing Director at vXchnge. The interview focuses on her past experiences with programmatic advertising before shifting over to an in-house role with a technology company. Blair also breaks down how she’s built marketing functions at a few technology companies, blending content, advertising and ot...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with James Winter, VP of Marketing at Brandfolder. The interview focuses on James’ past experiences and current role working in the B2B software as a service (SaaS) industry. Brandfolder is a company that helps marketers and creatives track, manage and protect their brand elements across all platforms. Highlights James...

Episode Summary During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Sarah Peduzzi, the Director of Marketing at Jetpack Workflow. During the podcast episode, Sarah talks about her past experiences with agencies and how she applies a lot of that knowledge to her current role at a tech company. Sarah also covers how she likes getting a little deeper with one company...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and  Justin Brown chat with Jess Otero, CMO at BI Tech. The interview focuses on how the company uses a predominantly ABM-focused approach to marketing and ensures content answers big questions from customers. Jessica also breaks down some of the key technologies the marketing team uses - from researching accounts with DiscoverOrg to mainta...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Amy Sitnick, Vice President of Marketing of Greenphire. The interview takes a look into Amy’s past work experience in the financial sector and then how she got into a new field of “clintech” at Greenphire. Amy discusses some of the challenges faced with the absence of events and how her team builds a content strat...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Justin Brown chats with Ivan Gomez, Senior Director of Global Sales Development at Tenable Network Security. Ivan Gomez walks us through some of his major lessons learned from his 25-year experience in sales development and inside sales. He discusses what it’s like to establish, launch and grow a global organization using a very strong sales cycle process. Ep...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino chats with Aditya Vempaty, the VP of Marketing at Synthego. Aditya chats about his past working experience prior to Synthego and highlights how it’s important to build trust with prospects with B2B marketing. Aditya also covers why he enjoys the startup culture so much and pinpoints what drives him as a marketer. Episode  Highlights Aditya’...

Episode Summary During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Jenn Steele, the Chief Product Officer at ORSNN. The interview focuses on Jenn’s past experiences with large organizations like Amazon and Hubspot, and then breaks down a lot of her strategy with a brand new startup environment at ORSNN. Episode Highlights Jenn confesses to being the most driven, m...

Episode Summary During this episode of Tech Qualified, Justin Brown chats with Ryan O'Hara, the VP of Growth and Marketing at LeadIQ. The interview focuses on his past experiences and how he went from a prospecting role to more of a marketing-based role at LeadIQ. Ryan takes a deeper dive into account-based marketing strategies and pinpoints how he’s building the brand at LeadIQ through conte...

Episode Summary:  During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino chats with Jennifer Pepper, the Head of Content Marketing at Unbounce. This podcast interview takes a look into Jennifer’s past experiences with B2B tech companies, highlights some of the key strategies Unbounce uses for evergreen content and pinpoints some exciting new functionality rolling out with the Unbounce platform....

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Matouš Roskovec, the Creative Lead at Avocode. The interview focuses on the past experiences of Matouš as a copywriter and how he’s transitioned to leading a team responsible for campaigns and content on a variety of different platforms. Learn how the organization builds their conversion strategy after attracting...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown talk with Kirti Dewan, the VP of Marketing at Bugsnag. Kirti chats about her role as a consultant prior to joining Bugsnag and then takes us through some of the major marketing initiatives she’s spearheading at the company. Kirti has a wide range of marketing leadership experience with startups and brings a lot to the table...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with the Head of Marketing at COTA, Jaimee Ryan. The podcast episode uncovers Jaimee’s journey as a B2B marketer, why she enjoys the startup culture, how she built a strong marketing foundation and what’s on the horizon with COTA’s marketing plans. Episode Highlights: Jaime talks about her earlier career...working for...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Justin Brown chats with Laurie Hood, SVP Marketing at Mobilewalla. The interview focuses on Laurie’s experience in a B2B capacity - mostly with technology and technology marketing. Laurie takes a deeper dive into how marketing functions at Mobilewalla, which focuses on selling to B2C companies across a variety of industries such as retail, telecommunications,...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown sit down with Kevin Alansky, the Chief Marketing Officer of Higher Logic. The interview focuses on Kevin’s career as a B2B marketer, his experience leading marketing efforts for technology companies, the evolution of the CMO over the years and highlights some of Kevin’s goals with Higher Logic’s marketing team. Episode High...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with the Vice President of Marketing at Backblaze, Ahin Thomas. The interview focuses on Ahin’s past experience, Backblaze’s highly effective inbound engine, and how the company competes with their competitors. Backblaze’s mission is to make backup software elegant and provide complete peace of mind to SMB storage requ...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino chats with the CEO of Triblio, Andre Yee. The conversation pinpoints some of the major challenges with B2B marketing right now - especially with standard MQLs and the traditional “lead model”. Andre talks about the shortcomings of using some of the standard marketing automation tools and how companies can pivot a bit to help gain rapport wi...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Justin Brown chats with the CMO of Apixio, Mark Scott. The interview focuses on Mark’s experience in a B2B capacity - mostly with healthcare companies that include direct delivery, medical devices, biotech and now software. Mark takes a deeper dive into how marketing functions for Apixio, which is essentially a data science company that takes structured and u...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino launches the first ever TechTalk Tuesday edition of the podcast. These episodes are designed to take a deep dive into a specific area and provide listeners with a clear path to implementation. In this episode, Tristan welcomes back Mariya Finkelshteyn, the owner of Orchid Agency, and the two discuss the strategies for virtual events. Virtua...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Stacey Arenson, the Marketing Director at Chowly. Chowly is a restaurant tech company that integrates third-party online ordering platforms with restaurants’ point of sale (POS) systems. During the episode, Stacey discusses what it’s like handling marketing with restaurants during the pandemic, pinpoints some of t...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Monique Mahler, the VP of Marketing at Interviewstream. Interviewstream is an industry leading recruiting software company that helps you reach your top candidates more efficiently. Monique talks about how she accidentally fell into marketing, the challenges when marketing to three different sets of target audienc...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Deb Julius, the Senior Director of Marketing at CBI. CBI manages IT risk and ensures a company’s data is secure, compliant, and available. The company helps defend and secure networks and endpoints; tests and monitors areas of operational risk; and protects your data. Throughout the episode, Deb discusses her back...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with Nicole Lindenbaum, the Vice President of Marketing at Teampay. Teampay empowers employees with software that requests, approves, and tracks company spending in real-time. Nicole chats about her initiatives when coming on board, discusses some of the major processes she built out and highlights the creation of an o...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with the Head of Marketing at Theorem, Andrew Upah. Andrew breaks down his background and discusses how Theorem’s main mission is to upend the traditional world of consulting. Andrew talks about marketing and selling consulting services to the Fortune 100 and how it’s important to add value throughout the entire custom...

During this episode of Tech Qualified, Tristan Pelligrino and Justin Brown chat with two marketing leaders from JazzHR. The conversation features the CMO, Allie Kelly, and the Content & Communication Manager, Kelly Peters, of JazzHR. The conversation provides a glimpse into their backgrounds, uncovers how the organization leverages content within their overall marketing strategy and dives a li...