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MEET ASHLEY

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"I build the marketing architecture behind scalable revenue — the systems, signals, and frameworks that turn campaign activity into pipeline that Sales actually trusts. 12+ years in B2B SaaS connecting demand generation, lifecycle, ABM, and RevOps into one coherent growth engine — for companies who want Sales, Marketing, and RevOps to finally agree on what the pipeline number means and how to move it."

Ashley Bondeson, Data Nerd & Pipeline Whisperer

About Me.

I've often been described as the GTM connective tissue. I'm fluent in both PLG and sales-led motions, and I understand the day-to-day reality of every team that touches the same data and the same CRM — Marketing, Marketing/Sales Ops, Sales, Partners. Knowing each team's needs lets me design solutions that work across functions instead of breaking at the seams.


That instinct comes from growing up between cultures. My childhood was in Southeast Asia — mostly Thailand, with a year in Malaysia — followed by undergrad in Belgium and a summer with the Oxbridge program in Paris. Living across systems — countries, languages, norms — trains you to notice the interconnectivity between people, processes, and what each actually needs from the other. It makes me empathetic by default and good at spotting the angle a room is missing.

 

That translates directly into the way I run marketing: efficiency, real cross-functional collaboration, and teams that grow instead of grind.

Experience

KLAVIYO
09/2024 – 04/2026

Head of Sales-led Lifecycle Marketing

Led the development of Klaviyo's first Sales-led marketing motion within a traditionally product-led organization — leading the Lifecycle migration from Klaviyo to HubSpot, launching the company's first lead scoring model, and building behavioral and account-based triggered plays to capture demand and surface engagement data for sales in real time. Drove a 400% YoY increase in Sales-led Lifecycle revenue contribution between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026.

ZOOMINFO
05/2023 – 09/2024

Principal Manager, Integrated Marketing

Tapped by Marketing Leadership to lead Integrated Marketing for ZoomInfo's platform and sales persona — responsible for 80% of marketing revenue contribution and $100M+ in quarterly pipeline, split across ABM and evergreen motions, worldwide. Led a full GTM squad spanning product marketing, demand generation, paid media, events, SEO/content, and program management.

Senior Manager, International Demand Generation & Marketing

Joined ZoomInfo as their first International marketing hire, building the marketing engine from the ground up across demand generation, paid search, SEO, content syndication, and webinars — scaling international revenue from 3% to 20% of ZoomInfo's total revenue portfolio within two years, in close partnership with International Product Marketing and Sales.

09/2021 – 05/2023

NETAPP
08/2019 – 09/2021

Manager, Revenue Marketing and ABM

Joined NetApp Cloud — a funded internal startup initiative within NetApp — as the Revenue Marketing team's ABM and Sales Engagement Manager, building their revenue marketing infrastructure from the ground up, including integrating 6sense and ZoomInfo into a new Marketo and Salesforce instance to power targeted campaigns and sales activation — earning the CMO-presented Ace of Initiative Award for driving company-wide adoption of the go-to-market program.

MARKETO ADOBE
04/2018 – 09/2019

Manager, Enterprise Demand Generation

Joined as Marketo's second Enterprise Demand Generation Marketer, building the enterprise marketing motion from the ground up across Field Marketing, Events, and Paid Media — earning Demand Gen Marketer of the Quarter within 8 months, promoted to Manager by the VP of Demand Generation at the one-year mark, and becoming a Marketo Certified Expert (MCE) while leading the migration of all enterprise workflows across internal instances.

PARASOLEIL
01/2017 – 04/2018

Marketing Manager

Joined as Parasoleil's first dedicated marketing hire, modernizing their strategy from the ground up — relaunching the website with an interactive design tool for lead generation, building their first SEO and paid search programs, and managing trade shows, PR, and editorial features, while overseeing a design agency, contract graphic designer, and paid media specialist.

MICROSOFT
07/2016 – 01/2017

Contract Product Marketer

AIMCO
04/2016 – 07/2016

Contract Marketing Data Analyst

Q-VALUE ADD

05/2014 – 05/2016

Business Development and Marketing

Kaitlyn Foley, CultureAmp

“Ashley is exactly the kind of Marketing Operations and Lifecycle Marketing leader teams need more of.  Any organization lucky enough to work with her will quickly realize how much stronger their foundation becomes with her in the room. I could not recommend her more. "

Sara Catalano, Aimco

"I am so grateful I found Ashley to be the Contract Marketing Analyst at Aimco. This project would not have been completed on time without her. I truly wish I could have worked with her longer, but she's just too efficient!"

Lizzy Ragno, Adobe

"Ashley is an incredibly talented and driven demand generation marketer. She thinks of creative ways to solve all problems. I would hire Ashley again any day and she would be a valuable asset to any marketing team she works with."

Education

George Washington University

Masters Degree,
Strategic Public Relations

Earned a master's degree in Strategic Public Relations in Washington, DC, with specialized coursework in communication strategy, crisis management, digital media, research, and analytics. The program emphasized data-driven decision-making, stakeholder engagement, and strategic storytelling, providing the foundation for a career leading growth, lifecycle, and demand generation marketing initiatives.

Vesalius College (VUB)
Bachelors of Arts, Communication & Media

Studied communication, media, journalism, political science, and international relations in Brussels, Belgium. Developed a global perspective on media, intercultural communication, research, and public affairs while studying in one of Europe's diplomatic and policy hubs, building the foundation for a career in strategic communications and marketing.

Ruamrudee International School

High School Diploma with Advanced coursework

Completed the International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum at an international school in Bangkok, Thailand, developing analytical thinking, research, and cross-cultural communication skills. As a four-year varsity athlete in Soccer, Basketball, and Softball, earned multiple MVP and MIP awards while cultivating leadership, discipline, collaboration, and a competitive mindset that continues to shape my approach to marketing and business leadership.

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