Lindsey Irvine

Irvine graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in communications and corporate strategy. She began her career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as director of strategy and partnerships, launching public-private partnership initiatives with Google, Microsoft and Intel.⁠[1][1]

She spent eight years at Salesforce, holding leadership roles in business development and go-to-market, driving global marketing strategies in IoT and industry verticals and bringing industry-specific cloud solutions to market; most recently she was global chief marketing officer of MuleSoft, a Salesforce company, where annual recurring revenue grew from $250 million to more than $1 billion during her tenure.⁠[1][1][2]

On September 1, 2021, Benchling, which provides R&D cloud software to the biotechnology industry, announced Irvine’s appointment as chief marketing officer, responsible for global marketing and market expansion. She said Benchling was building the software that would power the biotechnology revolution and that more than 200,000 scientists were using its platform. Benchling CEO and co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara said she would play a key role as the company scaled its go-to-market. Nebius later said she helped define the R&D cloud category for the biotechnology industry at Benchling.⁠[1][1][1][1][1][1][2]

On August 5, 2026, the AI cloud company Nebius announced Irvine’s appointment as chief marketing officer, succeeding Daniel Bounds. She had previously led global marketing at Square across brand, demand, product and hardware, supporting more than 4.5 million sellers. Irvine said every company is deciding how it will build with AI, that the cloud it chooses determines what it can create, and that the AI cloud category is still being created. Nebius chief revenue officer Marc Boroditsky said sustaining the company’s rapid growth required a CMO who could build demand at every layer of the market, from enterprise buyers to the developer community.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2][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, Irvine 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 ElevenLabs chief revenue officer Ashley KramerAshley KramerAshley Kramer is a technology executive who has been chief revenue officer of the voice AI company ElevenLabs since September 2026. She previously led enterprise sales at OpenAI and earlier served as chief marketing and strategy officer of GitLab, chief product officer and chief marketing officer of Sisense, and senior vice president of product and marketing at Alteryx.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]