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Pierce is a career marketer who has lived in the marketing trenches at companies like IBM, SAP, NVIDIA, and Marketo. He launched Knak in 2015 as a platform designed to help Marketers simplify email creation. He is also the founder of Revenue Pulse, a marketing operations consultancy.

Brendan is a career enterprise marketer who's passionate about making modern marketing accessible to everyone. He has worked at organizations of every size, from startups to global enterprises, and is experienced with the full spectrum of marketing operations, including analysis, go-to-market strategy, asset creation, sales enablement, and demand generation. He also loves dad jokes, even though his kids do not.

Patrick loves working for Knak. Whether he's working to develop a great new feature, improve the site's performance, or enhance usability, he's always pushing the envelope to create the best possible platform for Knak's clients. Patrick is glad to be part of a team that's passionate about their work, and he's happy to be creating a product that's fun to use and meets a real need for Marketers.

Mychelle is a geophysical engineer turned career marketer who has led marketing teams at Cognos, IBM, Klipfolio and Solace. She has been very active in the startup community as a board member at Invest Ottawa, Unito, Trustiics and Touch Bistro and is on the Ottawa Hospital Foundation Board. In her spare time she spends her time outdoors biking, kayaking and skiing.

Stephanie joins Knak with a breadth of digital marketing and SaaS experiences. Dabbling in successful M&As, bootstrapped to 100 million, and a recent IPO, she leads highly engaged teams with a passion for designing exceptional customer experiences. Stephanie knows first hand that successful customers emerge from deeply engaged teams. Stephanie is committed to building out the very best employee and customer experience at Knak! Stephanie loves to collect new growth opportunities in and out of the office. She has recently taken up hiking some of the highest peaks in the rocky mountains and regularly champions her two energetic kids in all of their activities.

Heidi is a passionate people leader who loves helping to grow businesses and develop world class cultures. She’s been fortunate to work with many start up and scales ups in the region as their head of people, and as a growth advisor. In her spare time you’ll find her trying to keep up with her 6 & 8 year old boys, mentoring the next generation of leaders through a variety of organizations and volunteering for CHEO, Hire Immigrants Ottawa and Algonquin College.

As CMO at Trend Micro, Leah MacMillan is responsible for all aspects of global marketing strategy and operations, including driving brand awareness for the organization and the solutions it offers. She is passionate about high-tech innovation and storytelling, and these interests have fueled a successful career that included senior positions at Entrust and Cognos, and, more recently, an executive position at IBM. Ms. MacMillan holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and International Business from McGill University.

Robert Ashe is the former President and CEO of Cognos Inc. First appointed President in 2002 and CEO in 2004, he held both roles until the company was acquired by IBM in 2007 for $4.9 billion, IBM’s largest software acquisition to date. After the acquisition, Mr. Ashe served as IBM’s General Manager of Business Analytics for several years. Currently, he is a director of ServiceSource International, Inc., MSCI, Inc., Shopify, and Halogen Software, Inc. Mr. Ashe holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Ottawa and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.