Demandbase Expands Leadership Team With New CRO To Reshape The B2B Marketing Landscape

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 14, 2020– Demandbase, the leader in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), announced today its appointment of Allison Metcalfe to the role of Chief Revenue Officer. As Demandbase’s CRO, Metcalfe will lead the company’s Sales, Advertising, and Customer Success teams while partnering with Marketing and Product teams to exceed revenue goals. Metcalfe’s appointment reinforces the company’s commitment to expanding the leadership team with top talent to help achieve goals while reshaping the B2B martech landscape.

An accomplished executive with extensive experience across customer success, partnerships, sales, and marketing, Metcalfe has a proven track record of leading high-performing, customer-centric revenue teams and building revenue-generating divisions while nurturing the next generation of leaders. In her new role, Metcalfe will be responsible for overseeing Demandbase’s revenue operations.

“We are thrilled to have Allison Metcalfe rejoin Demandbase as our – Chief Revenue Officer and help us continue to accelerate our growth trajectory. Allison is a dynamic leader with extensive experience growing important business categories, scaling revenue, and building effective teams, making her the ideal candidate to lead our organization,” said Gabe Rogol, Chief Executive Officer, Demandbase. “As ABM continues to become core to B2B Marketing, B2B organizations rely on the Demandbase platform to execute go-to-market strategies, to deliver personalized experiences to customers, and to drive growth.”

Metcalfe joins Demandbase after a successful seven-year stint at the leading advertising technology company LiveRamp. Throughout her career, Metcalfe has had extensive experience creating business lines and building teams to drive growth. She was responsible for creating LiveRamp’s customer success function before moving onto building LiveRamp TV, the company’s TV advertising division, which helped them establish a net new revenue stream from the $80+ billion TV advertising industry, and now accounts for 10 percent of their over $300M in annual recurring revenue. More recently, Metcalfe held the role of Senior Vice President of Field Strategy, Productivity, and Partnerships.

Previously, Metcalfe was a Customer Success leader at Demandbase. She also held leadership Customer Success roles at Jigsaw (now Data.com, acquired by Salesforce) and Equilar. Metcalfe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Sociology from the University of St. Thomas in St.Paul, Minnesota.

“Returning to Demandbase, an organization that has been at the forefront of B2B martech, as Chief Revenue Officer is an incredible opportunity,” said Allison Metcalfe, Chief Revenue Officer, Demandbase. “I’m thrilled to work with the company’s dynamic revenue-generating teams to empower our B2B customers to leverage ABM to scale for significant growth.”

Allison Metcalfe joins the growing leadership team at Demandbase, including Jon Miller, Chief Product Officer; Brian Babcock, Chief Technology Officer; and Supreet Oberoi, Senior Vice President of Engineering.