Denise has 25+ years of experience in driving go-to market strategies for both large public companies and hyper-growth startups in Europe and North America. In 2016, Denise was appointed the first CMO of Snowflake, a cloud data platform company. Denise has been instrumental in growing the company from 0 to over $3B in revenue and in 2020 Snowflake completed the largest software IPO in history. Prior to joining Snowflake, Denise served as CMO for Apigee, an API platform company that went public in 2015 and was acquired by Google in 2016. She began her career at collaboration software company Genesys, where she spent 12 years building and leading the global marketing organization through both an IPO and acquisition in 2008. Denise holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm University and an MBA from Georgetown University.