Joe Payne, CEO, Eloqua

Joseph Payne brings more than 15 years of leadership and a proven track record with high growth software companies to Eloqua. His focus at Eloqua is to drive the company's strategic direction and to oversee all operations of the company. Joe’s broad experience base in delivering software solutions for marketers gives him a unique perspective of the most pressing concerns of marketers today: visibility, measurement, effectiveness and efficiency.

Joe was most recently President and COO of iDefense, a VeriSign company where he was responsible for the operations of the company. Prior to joining iDefense, he was President and CEO of eSecurity Inc., and President and CEO of eGrail.

Joe’s role as Chief Marketing Officer at MicroStrategy Inc. exemplifies his ability to run the global marketing efforts of a fast growing company in the business analytics market. Mr. Payne also held marketing roles at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, and Royal Crown Company.

 

Paul Teshima, SVP Product Management, Eloqua

Paul Teshima joined Eloqua in September 2000 to manage client services, and has run Customer Strategy and Success until 2010 helping Eloqua grow to more than 1,000 customers. In January 2011 Paul was promoted to SVP Product Management taking over Eloqua’s product strategy, roadmap and go-to-market planning. 

Paul brings substantial customer, market and management experience to the Eloqua team, and has used this experience to help drive product strategy with solutions like Codynamic lead scoring, lead nurturing and and most recently the strategy of Revenue Performance Management (RPM). As head of the Product Management department, Paul is responsible for setting the product roadmap and then working with development to deliver the roadmap to market for each of Eloqua’s product lines.

Prior to joining Eloqua, Paul was in charge of New Products with the Rogers@Home division of Rogers Communications, implementing new products and services for over 300,000 subscribers. Paul holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Charlene Li, Founder, Altimeter Group

Charlene Li is founder of the Altimeter Group and the author of The New York Times bestseller Open Leadership. She is also the coauthor of the critically acclaimed, bestselling book Groundswell, which was named one of the best business books in 2008.

She is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies and a consultant and independent thought leader on leadership, strategy, social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. Formerly, Charlene was vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and a consultant with Monitor Group. She was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2010 and one of the most influential women in technology 2009. Charlene is a frequently-quoted expert and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The PBS NewsHour, ABC News, and CNN. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Businessweek, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought-after public speaker and appeared at the World Business Forum in Radio City Music Hall in October 2010.

Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, as well as The Poynter Institute. You can follow her blog at charleneli.com/blog or at twitter.com/charleneli.

Personal
Charlene is the mother of two kids and the wife of Come Lague, a venture capitalist with Nueva Ventures. She is also a self-professed geek, an avid fan of reality TV shows like Survivor, and loves to play puzzle games. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Jeffrey Hayzlett,
Bestselling Author, Global Business Celebrity & Sometime Cowboy

JEFFREY HAYZLETT is a global business celebrity and former Fortune 100 c-suite executive. From small business to international corporations, he has put his creativity and extraordinary entrepreneurial skills into play, launching ventures blending his leadership perspectives, insights into professional development, mass marketing prowess and affinity for social media. He is a well-traveled public speaker, the author of the bestselling books, The Mirror Test and Running the Gauntlet, celebrity editor to one of the largest-circulation business publications and one of the most compelling figures in global business.

Jeffrey is an esteemed business and marketing expert, appearing frequently on programs like Fox Business News, MSNBC’s Your Business and NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. Drawing upon an eclectic background in business, buoyed by a stellar track record of keynote speaking, and deeply rooted in cowboy lore, Jeffrey energizes his role driving and delivering change. He is a turnaround architect of the highest order, a maverick marketer who delivers scalable campaigns, embraces traditional modes of customer engagement, and possesses a remarkable cachet of mentorship, corporate governance and brand building.