Joel Debus

Joel Debus has a strong background in marketing and email marketing. Joel most recently worked as a Marketing Automation Manager at Klarna, where they developed dynamic CRM retargeting journeys and launched an AI-driven project, resulting in increased purchases and in-app sessions. Joel also served as a Competence Lead, training and coaching team members. Joel was recognized as the Braze "Rising Star of the Year" and received the Klarna peer-voted "CRM Spark of the Year" award. Prior to Klarna, they held the role of Email Marketing Manager at Knowledge to Practice (K2P). Before that, they worked as a CRM Marketing Strategist at Serial Scaling and as the Director of Email Marketing and Email Marketing Specialist at Fit Small Business. Joel started their career as a Marketing and Promotions Intern at iHeartMedia and as a Marketing Manager Intern at MyJobCredit.com.

Joel Debus attended Azusa Pacific University from 2014 to 2017, where they obtained a degree in Marketing with a specialization in Business. Alongside their formal education, Joel has pursued various additional certifications. In 2017, they obtained the Hootsuite Platform Certification from Hootsuite Academy. In 2019, they completed the LifeLabs Manager CORE 1 Workshop offered by LifeLabs Learning. Most recently, in 2022, Joel acquired the Braze Certified Marketer certification from Braze. Joel has also completed online courses such as "The Complete Regular Expressions (Regex) Course" through Udemy and the "Learn Python 3 Course" offered by Codecademy.