The B2B CMO Podcast with Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan
The B2B CMO Podcast is a show for marketing executives, hosted by Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan. Each week, they interview top Chief Marketing Officers about navigating the modern marketing landscape and positioning themselves as strategic leaders. The podcast aims to build a community, provide research, and equip CMOs with frameworks for sustainable growth.
Episodes
Leading the Market Through AI Disruption with Demandbase CMO Rachel Truair
Rachel Truair is the Chief Marketing Officer of Demandbase, the pipeline engine for AI go-to-market trusted by some of the world's leading B2B enterprise brands. Rachel joined Demandbase in January 2026 after more than two decades in B2B marketing leadership, including CMO roles at Simpro Group and Cart.com and senior roles at Adobe, Confluent, Oracle, and 3M.In this episode, Rachel chats
Turning Customer Pain Into Strategic Marketing with Cindy Zhou, CMO at Imprivata
Cindy Zhou is the Chief Marketing Officer of Imprivata, the simple and secure access management platform used by roughly 90% of U.S. hospitals. Before Imprivata, Cindy built her CMO track record at KnowBe4, LogRhythm, and in senior marketing roles at IBM and Verizon, making this her fourth cybersecurity company as a marketing leader.Cindy chats with Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan about her n
Why Your Marketing Org Chart Is Already Obsolete with Dom Colasante, Founder of 2X
Most CMOs are trying to solve an operating model problem with a job posting. Dom Colasante is the founder of 2X, and he has spent the better part of a decade helping B2B companies run marketing, sales, and customer success as one system. Following 2X's acquisition of KnownWell, he is betting the company on what he calls the human agentic go-to-market model. This model involves expert team
Rebuilding Marketing Automation for the AI Era with Jon Miller, Founder of Marketo and Phave
Jon Miller is the co-founder of Marketo, where he helped invent the marketing automation category and take the company public. He later co-founded Engagio, which was acquired by Demandbase, where he served as CMO. He's now the founder and CEO of Phave, an AI-native marketing automation platform built to replace the very category he created.In this partner episode, Sydney talks to Jon abou
Build Marketing Around Proof, Not Pitches with Lena Waters
Lena Waters is a marketing executive and advisor who specializes in the inflection point where product-led growth meets enterprise scale. She has built and led global marketing teams across growth, demand, and brand at companies including Grammarly, DocuSign, Responses, and Lookout, and most recently served as CMO at Notion. Across those roles, she's operated both enterprise and product-l
Inside G2's 2026 Buyer Behavior Report with Alexandra London, CMO of G2
Alexandra London is the Chief Marketing Officer at G2, the world's largest and most trusted data source in B2B software, serving more than 200 million annual software buyers. She joined G2 to lead marketing into the AI era, building growth engines designed for acceleration, accountability, and long-term value creation. Alexandra joins Sydney Sloan to unpack the findings of G2's 2026 Buyer
Define the Message and the Roadmap Follows with Jamie Domenici, CMO of Klaviyo
Jamie Domenici is the Chief Marketing Officer at Klaviyo, the autonomous B2C CRM. Since joining in 2023, Jamie has guided the company through its IPO and championed Klaviyo's repositioning from ESP to the CRM built specifically for B2C brands, earning recognition as a category leader in Adweek's AI Power 50. She previously served as CMO at GoTo, leading the company's rebrand from LogMeIn,
Quick Fire Advice to Uplevel Your AEO with Guy Yalif, Chief Evangelist of Webflow
Guy Yalif is the Chief Evangelist at Webflow, the agentic web marketing platform helping developers, designers, and marketers build and optimize sites for both human visitors and AI answer engines. Before Webflow, Guy co-founded and served as CEO of Intellimize, a machine learning personalization company Webflow acquired, and spent more than two decades at the intersection of ad tech, mar
How to Justify Brand Spend in the Dark Funnel with Kimberly Storin
Kimberly Storin is the CMO at Zoom, the AI-first work platform for human connection. Kimberly leads Zoom’s brand, communications, product marketing, enterprise marketing, and regional marketing teams. Previously, she was Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Zayo, and also spent time as a consultant with Deloitte.Kimberly joins Sydney Sloan to discuss how to build your brand in th
Building the Case for Brand as a New CMO with Latané Conant
Latané Conant is the Chief Market Officer of Parloa, AI agents that turn customer conversations into lasting loyalty. Prior to Parloa, she led both global sales and marketing teams in both CMO and CRO roles at 6Sense, Appirio, and Ariba. She wrote the book No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls. Latané joins co-hosts Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan to discuss how being a sales leader can make you a
AI Won't Save Bad Marketing, Creativity Will, with Kyle Lacy
Kyle Lacy is the Chief Marketing Officer at Docebo, an AI-First LMS for Enterprise Learning & Skills. Kyle led global content marketing at ExactTarget before its acquisition by Salesforce, helped build Lessonly from the early days through its $300 million acquisition by Seismic, and went on to serve as CMO of Jellyfish. Kyle joins co-hosts Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan to discuss why AI
Pipeline Gives Permission to Invest Big on Brand with Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer “JJ” Johnson is the Chief Marketing Officer at CrowdStrike, the Agentic Security Platform; unified and built to secure the AI revolution. Jennifer has been a CMO for more than a decade, leading global marketing strategy and execution, and building high-performance teams for some of the fastest-growing and most trusted brands in cybersecurity. Before joining CrowdStrike, she led b
“Write for Humans, Optimize for Agents” with Chris Koehler
Chris Koehler is the Chief Marketing Officer of Twilio, the platform for conversations in the AI era. Chris has over 25 years of experience in leading marketing, sales, and product teams across companies like Adobe, Box, and E-Trade. Lately, he's been chasing a question Jon Miller happens to care a lot about: what happens to discovery, to personalization, and to the CMO's mandate itself i
Leading Marketing Change at a 140-Year-Old Enterprise with Chris Bontempo
Chris Bontempo is the Chief Marketing Officer of Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization. Prior to joining Johnson Controls, Chris worked his way up at IBM from an Analyst to become the Chief Marketing Officer, IBM Americas. He’s especially passionate about how AI changes the marketing operating mod
Building Your AEO Strategy to Win the AI Citation with Amy Cook
Amy Cook is the Co-Founder & CMO of Fullcast, the Go-to-Market Cloud built for RevOps leaders by RevOps leaders. Over Amy’s career, she’s led multiple companies through successful acquisitions as a CMO at companies such as Simplus, PathologyWatch, and nClouds. Amy joins Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan to discuss why she ditched MQLs for pipeline-first metrics, turned radical transparency
How to Embed AI into Your Marketing Team with Wendy White
Wendy White is the Chief Marketing and Partner Officer at Daxko, where she leads marketing and partnerships for the platform that's powering the member management and operations engine behind so much of the fitness industry. Wendy has been a CMO for a number of companies and held globe-spanning marketing leadership roles at giants like Microsoft and Intel. Wendy joins Jon Miller and Sydne
The 5 New Imperatives for B2B CMOs with Jon Miller & Sydney Sloan
In this special episode, Sydney Sloan and Jon Miller break down the most important findings for marketing leaders from The B2B CMO Project’s new research report. The findings in this report draw on recorded interviews with more than 50 B2B CMOs at companies including Zoom, Salesforce, Nutanix, Snowflake, PagerDuty, and Sprout Social. Their goal: give CMOs the clearest possible picture of
Reframing Marketing ROI to Return on Objectives with Karl Van den Bergh
Karl Van den Bergh is the Chief Market Officer at Illumio, known as the world’s first breach containment platform (built on AI and designed for Zero Trust). Over the course of more than 25 years, Karl has held leadership roles in Marketing, Product and as a GM in Cloud, Analytics and Cybersecurity businesses, including SAP, Gigamon, Datastax, and Tibco.Karl joins Jon Miller and Sydney Slo
Nerding Out on the Neuroscience Behind Buying Decisions with Bryan Law
Bryan Law is the Chief Marketing Officer of Nerdio, the all-in-one Microsoft Cloud management platform. Bryan previously led global marketing teams at Google, Salesforce, ZoomInfo, and SentinelOne, to name just a few. He’s passionate about building distinctive, memory-building brands that translate into efficient pipeline creation, backed by data-driven decisioning and pragmatic AI adopti
Showing Up for Your Board with Tracey Newell, Author of Hers for the Taking
Tracey Newell is the Author of Hers for the Taking and has led global revenue teams, served as President of Informatica and now sits on the boards of some of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. Beyond leading major companies like Informatica, Proofpoint, Polycom, and Cisco, Tracey is now on a mission to help more women step into leadership with confidence and clarity. Tra
Building C-Suite Buy-In & Selling The Brand Story with Tricia Gellman
Special guest Tricia Gellman, CMO of Box, the Intelligent Content Platform pioneering Intelligent Content Management, joins Sydney Sloan and Jon Miller on The B2B CMO Podcast to discuss the strategic role of the modern CMO. Tricia is a seasoned marketing leader with stints as Chief Marketing Officer at major SaaS companies such as Drift, Checker, and Salesforce Canada. Part of what sets T
The B2B CMO Podcast with Jon Miller & Sydney Sloan - Trailer
Welcome to The B2B CMO Podcast, a show for marketing executives who are redefining what it means to be a strategic leader. Join Jon Miller and Sydney Sloan every week as they talk with the very best CMOs who are navigating the modern marketing playbook and positioning themselves as strategic leaders. Each episode, we unpack what it really takes to lead through complexity, earn trust at th
Recommended
The Bread and Banter Podcast
The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament
Busted Open
Deadline: White House
Crickets Corner
History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco
Fox news
K-Drama Obsessed Mamas | Beyond “Just One More Episode!”
True Crime Classics
The Healer Revolution
Becoming: HER with Nikki Spoelstra
Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
