Fintan Lillis, Senior Director, Brand & Demand Gen Marketing UKI, Salesforce

Fintan leads Brand and Demand Generation marketing at Salesforce in the UK & Ireland. He spearheads a team who deliver amazing experiences for customers and prospects through C-suite and ABM programs, drive brand awareness across the region through brand and sponsorship programs and focus on pipe generation through industry and product-focused go-to-market activations. He is held accountable for growth of our key business metrics and driving alignment across business units, multiple departments and different regional teams.

Previous to this role, he led the Digital Marketing function across EMEA for Salesforce, leading the digital strategy and executing optimised programs through each digital channel from SEO to Email to the Paid media program. As part of this role he delivered significant growth, managed large and complex budgets, partnered across multiple territories and business units, and supported the evolution, development and growth of these key teams within the marketing function.

He has held several other roles in the Salesforce EMEA Marketing team out of Dublin, leading teams from Email, to Optimisation, to Marketing Operations, to Marketing Analytics and Data.

Prior to Salesforce, he worked agency-side in New Zealand, Australia and London focused on delivering digital experiences for customers through his background in Email, Web Development and Design.

Outside of work, you’ll find him enjoying the Surrey countryside with his family and keeping fit on two wheels, on foot or in the water!

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