Cello and Lightspeed Present GTM10 Award Recipients - Celebrating the Top Global GTM Leader in Software Industry
2025 GTM10 Awards: Celebrating Go-To-Market Superstars
Bragging Rights, Top-Notch Networking, and More for the Best of the Best in Marketing, Sales, Growth, Customer Success, and Partnerships
San Francisco - Business Wire - It's time to chuckle at your coworkers, boast about your team's accolades, and proudly strut your stuff around the office - the 2025 GTM10 Awards is here! The first global program honoring exceptional Go-To-Market (GTM) leaders is set to shine a spotlight on the bigwigs championing marketing, sales, growth, customer success, and partnerships in software companies worldwide.
Cello and Lightspeed Venture Partners have joined forces to present the inaugural edition of the GTM10 Awards, recognizing the crème de la crème of GTM aces across 24 countries from a pool of 806 nominations. This prestigious event is zipping its way through the software industry, drumming up appreciation for the winners who have koala-y Scaled with Constraints, Broken Through Noise, boosted Efficiency at Scale, Orchestrated Global Expansion, and Intergrated AI and Automation − all while navigating the chaos of saturated markets.
Shh! Here's a sneaky peek at the winners:
🚀 Marketing: Ren Lee, SVP Marketing at Dataiku🏆 Sales: Nick Feeney, VP Revenue at Loom🌱 Growth: Alexander Berger, Chief of Staff at Bolt.new🤝 Customer Success: Cait Keohane, Chief Customer Officer at Airtable🤝 Partnerships: Alexis Zhu, Head of Global Partnerships at Stripe
(Full list of winners can be found at www.thegtm10.com/winners)
The GTM Dynamics: Five Functions Defining the Modern Landscape
Marketing remained the most contentious arena this year, with winners shaking the industry with their innovative, demand-gen-focused strategies. From Ren Lee's executive connect series to a revamped webinar engine, Dataiku's Marketing powerhouse has set a new standard for enterprise marketing in the AI space.
Growth paragons, such as Alexander Berger, led high-stakes company pivots, transforming Stackblitz into Bolt.new within just two months, scaling the product into an AI tools category leader with a $20M ARR. The success stories stretched forth to honor those braving the sales front (like Nick Feeney of Loom), diving headfirst into niche areas like "simplicity, automation, and high-talent density," while making waves in Customer Success for companies like Airtable (props to Cait Keohane).
As for Partnerships, Stripe's transformation, led by Alexis Zhu, has been lovingly dubbed a new distribution model. Her fintech-savvy "Tiger Teams," cross-functional alliances, and exclusive ARR growth have changed the partnership landscape forever.
Every Dog Has Its Day: How the GTM10 Awards Chooses Its Champions
The cream of the crop was selected by an expert panel of GTM veterans from esteemed companies like HubSpot, Shopify, Asana, and Databricks, along with accomplished investors from Sequoia, a16z, Balderton, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Candidates were grilled on Impact, Innovation, and Visibility − the three core pillars of GTM greatness.
The Benefits: Nasdaq Times Square, Media Exposure, and GTM Leaders Circle Induction
Winners can pat themselves on the back, knowing they'll be showered with well-deserved recognition in Nasdaq Times Square, media coverage, and admittance into the exclusive GTM10 Leaders Circle. Membership entitles them to priority invites for staggeringly fabulous global events.
Got bling? Want to rub elbows with the who’s who of GTM? Then get ready to celebrate the 2025 GTM10 Awards winners! If your team deserves to shine on the global stage, nominations for the 2026 edition will open soon. In the meantime, go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back for your outstanding work. The software industry won't stop raving about the stars of Go-To-Market strategy shaping the digital landscape.
cont'd - For the extended version, featuring a summary table showcasing key winners and their notable contributions, hit up: www.thegtm10.com/winners (site may contain traces of obscenities, only intended to add flavor)
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The following leaders have been celebrated for their contributions in their respective categories: Jason Ing (Typeface.ai), Jack Cummings (Payhawk), Ren Lee (Dataiku), Julia Goelles (Parloa), Kyle Norton (Owner.com), Nick Feeney (Loom), Mark Anderson (Cloudflare), Haresh Bajaj (Pleo), Eli Schwartz (Product-Led SEO), Rodney Apura (Zendesk), Luke Ferrel (Deel), Sarung Tripathi (Together AI), Eman Abdel-Latif (Mosaic Finance), Cait Keohane (Airtable), Jo Zhu Kennedy (Anthropic), Alexis Zhu (Stripe), Jen Shumann Chang (Vercel), and Helen Martin (Mambu). [List may contain traces of obscenities, only intended to add flavor]
San Francisco-based marketing leader Ren Lee, SVP Marketing at Dataiku, was recognized for his innovative strategies in the saturated AI space, including an executive connect series and a revamped webinar engine.
Alexis Zhu, Head of Global Partnerships at Stripe, was awarded for transforming the company's partnership landscape with her fintech-savvy Tiger Teams, cross-functional alliances, and exclusive ARR growth, which has been referred to as a new distribution model.
