Andrew Bennett

Chief Marketing Officer · Go-To-Market Leader

andrewb@bennettprojects.com425-985-5938linkedin.com/in/andrewleebennettSeattle, WA

Full-stack go-to-market executive: a CMO who has also run a 400+ person global sales organization. Over a decade at Smartsheet — built the demand engine from scratch, led commercial sales through the 2018 IPO, and served as CMO while revenue doubled from $550M to $1B. Most recently repositioned AI-native Elementum against the legacy enterprise SaaS stack, won Snowflake's Product Partner of the Year, and made Fortune 100 customer executives the public voice of the story — from keynote stages to tier-one press.

$18M → $1BRevenue scaled at Smartsheet
400+ peopleCommercial sales org led
NYSE IPOSales leader through 2018 IPO
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Experience

Elementum Chief Marketing Officer

Dec 2025 – Jul 2026

AI-native enterprise software running on Snowflake and Databricks; joined as the company's only dedicated marketer with a mandate to build the go-to-market engine in partnership with the CEO.

  • Repositioned the company in the first quarter from "Open Orchestration Platform" to "Goodbye SaaS" — the AI-native replacement for legacy enterprise SaaS — with the technical wedge message "Agents reason. Engines govern."
  • Won Snowflake Product Partner of the Year for Agentic Transformation (June 2026), with Sanofi's Chief Digital Officer and Under Armour's Chief Data & AI Officer telling the story from Snowflake Summit keynote stages — then converted the moment into a six-week tail of nurture sequences, reference assets, and board material.
  • Built the first-party events program from scratch, anchored on high-end CIO dinners.
  • Landed tier-one press in The Information and Fortune; opened Gartner analyst engagement; grew search impressions more than 10x through an SEO and LLM-authority content program while running a weekly CEO thought-leadership series.

Conga Chief Marketing Officer

2024 – 2025
  • Led global brand and marketing strategy for the PE-owned revenue lifecycle management platform: demand generation, product marketing, brand, and pipeline, built around a connected cross-functional GTM model spanning marketing, sales, and partner teams.

Smartsheet Chief Marketing Officer

2021 – 2024
  • Ran worldwide marketing — brand, product marketing, digital, demand generation, communications — through a period in which annual revenue roughly doubled from $550M to $1B.
  • Launched Sponsor X, the world-first brand program with McLaren Formula 1 showcasing STEM nonprofits on a global stage — 55 million viewers at debut — contributing to Fast Company naming Smartsheet a 2023 "Brand That Matters."
  • Used prior sales leadership experience to keep demand generation tied to the sales funnel, improving conversion and holding marketing accountable to revenue rather than activity.

Smartsheet SVP, Commercial Sales & Demand Generation

2016 – 2021
  • Led a global commercial sales organization of 400+ people alongside the demand generation function — a deliberately unified revenue engine spanning sales, SDRs, and inbound/outbound marketing.
  • Grew commercial ARR from $64M to $550M, through the 2018 NYSE IPO and ~40%+ annual growth in the years after.

Smartsheet VP, Digital Marketing

2014 – 2016
  • Built the global demand generation and digital marketing function from the ground up — automation, analytics, experimentation-driven acquisition — as ARR grew from $18M to $64M and the customer base scaled to tens of thousands.

Deneki Outdoors Founder & President

2005 – 2014
  • Founded and ran an international fly-fishing lodge business across multiple countries. Built it to profitability on content, search, and inbound demand generation.

Onyx Software VP, Professional Services, Americas

1996 – 2005
  • Progressive leadership of consulting and implementation teams delivering enterprise CRM to mid-market and Fortune 500 clients across North and South America.

Board & Advisory

Elementum AIAdvisor
Ambassador SoftwareBoard Member
Stage 2 CapitalLimited Partner

Education

Dartmouth College B.A., Computer SciencePhi Beta Kappa · magna cum laude