Jim Walker

Jim Walker is an experienced professional in product marketing and strategic operations, currently serving as an Operator at marketmessage.io since June 2024, focusing on go-to-market strategies for early stage tech companies. In addition, Walker has held the position of Portfolio Partner at OSS Capital since November 2018 and has been a Partner at Jackrabbit Industries since June 1995. Previous roles include VP Product Marketing at Temporal Technologies, where category creation for durable execution was a key focus, and Principal Evangelist and Vice President of Product Marketing at Cockroach Labs, specializing in distributed SQL. Walker has also contributed to companies such as Upbound, OverOps, CoreOS, and EverString, where significant emphasis was placed on category creation in areas like Kubernetes and predictive marketing. Educational qualifications include an MSEC degree in Electronic Commerce from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago.