Criss Marshall

Criss has a passion for building brands that inspire and is excited to be doing that for Espressive. She is a goal driven leader with proven success developing and executing go-to-market, brand, and communication strategies that generate excellent ROI and increased sales for high-tech startups to multibillion-dollar global organizations. Criss joins Espressive from Panzura where she served as CMO and implemented a turnaround branding strategy that increased pipeline nearly 100% in one year. Prior to that, she was vice president of marketing at Palerra where she defined and executed a go-to-market strategy that saw a seven-fold increase in demand in six months culminating in an acquisition by Oracle. Prior to Palerra, Criss was vice president of marketing at G5 and vice president of strategic marketing at Imperva. She held senior-level marketing positions at NetApp and Sun Microsystems as well as served as vice president of corporate marketing for Storage Dimensions through a revenue- enabling IPO and merger.