Anne Gherini

Chief Marketing Officer

2022

Operator | Investor I run platform and sit on the investment team. Sierra Ventures has 4 decades of history investing in some of the brightest minds in technology. Our most recent fund (XIII) is focused on investing in seed and A startups in SaaS, Digital Health, Data Infrastructure, AI/ML. Our CXO network consists of over 70 members in the F2000 C-Suite. Read more: https://www.sierraventures.com/anne-gherini

UCSD Wavemaker Council

2023

The Wavemaker Lab trains potential entrepreneurs and supports early-stage ventures with high-impact potential by bringing together San Diego’s strengths in technology and entrepreneurship. The lab is at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. It leverages a robust network of successful entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, and its globally recognized expertise in energy and environmental policy, emerging markets, national security, and governance and sustainability. The venture program, a seven-month program designed for startups based primarily in the San Diego region, was launched in Fall 2023. https://ccgt.ucsd.edu/initiatives/wavemaker-lab/anne-gherini.html

Member

2020

Contributor

2016

Startups | Health | GTM SaaS Follow along: http://www.inc.com/author/anne-gherini

Chief Marketing Officer

2021 - 2022

Platform | Marketing | Operations Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm with over a billion dollars under management and a 15-year track record in investing in groundbreaking startups. Shasta Elevate is a portfolio program built around a proven methodology of Going-to-Market.

Vice President of Marketing and Partnerships

2017 - 2021

Marketing | BD | Revenue Employee ~15. First exec hire. I ran the marketing, BD, and SDR team. Left around the Series C ($80M led by Menlo). Now a power user. Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform serving the Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Investment Banking industries. I was the first executive hire brought in to build and run GTM efforts. Affinity is backed by 8VC, Menlo Ventures, Pear Ventures, & AVP.

Advisor

2014 - 2021

DMA is the world’s leading independent organization for data-driven marketers.The vision is for a world in which every marketer has the ability to provide their customers with exactly what they need, at precisely the right moment when they need it. After speaking at the DMA conference in October '14, I was asked to join on as an adviser helping to bring the DMA to the next generation of marketers. http://andthen.thedma.org http://thedma.org

Advisor

2017 - 2018

SAP's accelerator.

Vice President of Marketing (Acquired by SugarCRM)

2016 - 2017

Node was an enterprise SaaS platform that offered an AI-as-a-service solution intended for platforms that leverages people and company data.

Co-Founder

2013 - 2017

Consulting | Advising | Investing www.partnercadence.com