Margaret Dawson

As the Chief Marketing Officer at SUSE, Margaret Dawson is focused on our current and prospective customers and their experiences, our brand and corporate communications, and the ecosystems and communities in which we operate. She is also integral to equipping our sales teams with the tools they need to get the right solutions into the hands of our customers. Throughout her career, Margaret has been instrumental in creating distinctive messaging platforms and go-to-market strategies that have successfully penetrated crowded markets, leading to increased category share and revenue growth. She has also built strong relationships with customers and partners, which has contributed to higher retention, growth, and market expansion.

With more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Margaret has built a reputation as a builder, a change agent, a technology evangelist, and a coach. Most recently, she was CMO at Chronosphere, and previously served as the Chief of Staff to the CEOs of Apptio and Red Hat. In previous leadership roles, Margaret drove global initiatives, including portfolio strategy at Red Hat, cloud at HP, network security at Microsoft, and international e-commerce at Amazon.com. She has led enterprise open-source programs for Ansible, Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Fluent Bit.

Margaret has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including a decade in Taiwan and Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent and entrepreneur. Ranked as one of the top Women in Cloud Computing, she was also named Business Role Model of the Year for Women in IT, Mentor and Coach of the Year in the Stevie Business Awards, and Top 50 Women Leaders of Seattle by Women We Admire.