Winners will be disclosed on June 03

2026

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The Winners 2026

Recognized by the GTM10 Jury as 2026's top Marketing leaders.

The Jury 2026

The nominees were assessed by a panel of 3 operator legends and 1 tier-one VC in each category.

Keith Messick

CMO, Vercel

Marketing

Rachel Truair

CMO, Demandbase

Marketing

Melanie Riebel

CMO, Chaos

Marketing

Ollie George

Director, Executive Talent, Sequoia Capital

Marketing

Marketing

Keith Messick

CMO

Keith Messick is the Chief Marketing Officer at Vercel, where he oversees global marketing initiatives for the cloud platform known for its developer experience and performance optimization. A seasoned enterprise marketing executive, he joined Vercel in June 2025 after serving as CMO at Redis, where he managed a 100-person team across brand, demand generation, and marketing operations. His extensive leadership background also includes defining the feature management category as CMO at LaunchDarkly, as well as heading marketing for Dialpad and Lucidworks.

Marketing

Rachel Truair

CMO

Rachel Truair is Chief Marketing Officer at Demandbase and a SaaS growth leader with 15+ years of experience scaling PE and VC-backed companies from startup to IPO and strategic exit. She has led global marketing organizations at companies including Simpro, Confluent, Adobe, and Magento, driving pipeline, revenue performance, and AI-powered GTM transformation.

Marketing

Melanie Riebel

CMO

Melanie Riebel is the Chief Marketing Officer at Chaos, where she drives global growth through self-service and enterprise motions for the design and visualization software leader. A former Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, she advised B2B and B2C SaaS founders on go-to-market acceleration and international expansion. Her background also includes deep technical expertise in marketing automation and analytics, which informed her transition into executive leadership. She was previously a GTM10 award winner in the Marketing category.

Marketing

Ollie George

Director, Executive Talent

Ollie George is Director of Executive Talent at Sequoia Capital, where he leads the firm’s GTM and executive talent network to support founders in building high-impact leadership teams. With experience placing senior sales, marketing, and commercial leaders across early to late-stage startups, he has helped scale talent infrastructures for dozens of high-growth companies. Prior to Sequoia, Ollie was Head of Executive Talent, GTM at Google Cloud and mentors founders through programs like Kickstart Global.

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