Ashley Kramer

Kramer earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Old Dominion University and a master of science degree in business administration and computer information systems from Colorado State University. She has described herself as a “former engineer.”⁠[1][2]

She worked at Amazon and served as head of cloud at the data visualization software company Tableau; GitLab credited her leadership with contributing to Tableau’s post-IPO growth.⁠[2][2]

From 2017 to 2020 she was senior vice president of product and marketing at the data analytics software company Alteryx.⁠[1]

From 2020 to 2022 she was chief product officer and chief marketing officer at the business intelligence software company Sisense, responsible for the company’s go-to-market and product strategy, brand awareness and revenue growth.⁠[1][2]

In March 2022 Kramer became chief marketing and strategy officer of the software development platform company GitLab, which announced the appointment on April 4. GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij said her mix of marketing, product and technology leadership made her well suited to lead marketing as the company entered its next phase. Kramer said that as a former engineer she was drawn to GitLab’s ability to solve a deep developer pain point.⁠[1][2][2][2]

In August 2024, after GitLab chief revenue officer Christopher Weber resigned, the company appointed Kramer interim chief revenue officer, effective August 5, in addition to her role as chief marketing and strategy officer, and began searching for a permanent successor.⁠[1][1]

On September 2, 2026, the voice AI company ElevenLabs announced that Kramer had joined as chief revenue officer, leading its global revenue function and partnership ecosystem. Before joining, she led enterprise sales at OpenAI during a period when its enterprise revenue outpaced consumer revenue. At the time, enterprise customers accounted for 55 percent of ElevenLabs’ revenue, and its AI agents were handling more than 15 million conversations a week.⁠[3][3][3][3][3]

Kramer said that solving how AI interacts with people would be one of the defining challenges of the AI era, and that if AI sounds robotic, cold or does not understand intent, people will not trust it. ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski said most of the company’s business now came from helping large companies, and that Kramer, having led many of the teams ElevenLabs serves, deeply understood what its customers need.⁠[3][3][3]

On September 30, 2026, at the Runway AIRunwayRunway (Runway AI, Inc.) is a New York–based artificial intelligence company that grew out of the ITP program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2018. It develops video generation models and tools for the film, advertising and creative industries, has released the Gen-1 through Gen-4.5 series of models, and has extended its research to “general world models” that simulate the world in real time.Open the full entry Summit in San Francisco, Kramer joined CanvaCanvaCanva is an online design platform company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams and launched in 2013, it offers template-based drag-and-drop design tools for non-designers and later expanded into team collaboration, video, email, forms and generative AI features.Open the full entry’s head of AI research Stefano Corazza and Nebius chief marketing officer Lindsey IrvineLindsey IrvineLindsey Irvine is a technology marketing executive who has been chief marketing officer of the AI cloud company Nebius since August 2026. She previously led global marketing at Square and served as chief marketing officer of the biotech R&D software company Benchling and of MuleSoft, a Salesforce company.Open the full entry on a panel titled “Building, Selling and Implementing Creativity at Scale,” on what it takes to build, ship and commercialize AI products that creative professionals actually adopt and how marketing leaders can get real value out of AI products.⁠[4][4][4]