Nation’s largest provider of Fractional CMO and CSO services to grow mid-market companies promotes committed digital transformation expert, mentor, Partner and CMO

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 16, 2024 – Chief Outsiders, the nation’s largest provider of Fractional Executive Services to grow mid-market companies, recently promoted Jennifer Apy from the position of Partner and CMO to Area Managing Partner (AMP). The experienced marketing executive also serves as a Fractional CMO with Chief Outsiders’ team of more than 120 Fractional Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Fractional Chief Sales Officers (CSOs).

“Jen's commitment to growth and business development is evident through her regular speaking engagements across the country,”  stated Art Saxby, CEO Founder and Principal, Chief Outsiders. Apy’s presentations and workshops on growth marketing and AI for business growth have reached thousands of companies attending conferences such as Quickbooks Connect, LeadsCon, Digimarcon, B2B Marketing Expo, Social Shakeup and the FEI Annual Meeting. Saxby continues, “Her passion for helping companies succeed and grow is demonstrated by her leadership as a certified Vistage speaker and mentor for the [Chief Outsiders] Tribe on LinkedIn Business Development and Digital Marketing Assessments.” Apy’s articles and LinkedIn Live presentations have helped CEOs and marketing teams accelerate growth while avoiding digital marketing failures and random acts of marketing.

According to an internal Chief Outsiders announcement, Apy serves on the company’s AI and Digital Transformation teams, helping her colleagues adopt new client tools such as Digital Marketing and Growth Marketing assessments, and the AI Maturity assessment. Each tool helps CEOs reflect on their company’s performance and ability to achieve competitive growth, and provides a high-level report to help leaders prioritize growth marketing efforts.

Company leaders maintain that a key element of Chief Outsiders’ success is the depth and breadth of talent provided by its seasoned fractional executives, and the collaborative way they support each other to solve client problems, through Peer Reviews, tandem engagements and a culture of learning from each other. By leveraging each marketing and sales consultant’s strengths, Area Managing Partners can help more small to mid-market businesses accelerate growth and succeed in achieving their business goals. According to Chief Outsiders’ leadership, the Area Managing Partner’s role is vital to the firm's growth. AMPs work collaboratively with the firm's Managing Partners, CMOs, and CSOs to ensure successful pursuit and execution of opportunities.

Software & Technology Marketing Leadership

In addition to her new responsibilities as Area Managing Partner, Apy works with CEOs at SaaS, technology, healthcare, professional services and ed-tech companies to fuel revenue and market share growth by harnessing customer insights and leveraging technology to drive innovation. Her work has driven ROI-positive demand gen, customer and sales growth and profitability for small companies ready to scale and take their business to the next level or entertain a profitable exit. Prior to joining Chief Outsiders, she grew Adobe’s global consumer software business to over $100 million and was part of the global go-to-market team that launched Creative Cloud.

Having worked with Fortune 500 companies to startups, Apy’s marketing leadership adapts to the size and scale of the company she serves. Recently, her expertise enabled a small, rapidly scaling software platform company to obtain clarity on which go to market strategies would be most effective prior to hiring the perfect CMO to execute on the roadmap that Apy developed. And when a large $1B+ regional hospital required CMO-level expertise to mentor their marketing staff to meet newly elevated business goals and expectations, Apy stepped in to coach the team.

Apy earned a BA in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and an MBA in Marketing, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University in Stanford, California. She continues to mentor students and support entrepreneurship groups at both alma maters.

Apy has been a guest lecturer for the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and University of Hawaii’s marketing and entrepreneurship courses. She has also served as coach, mentor and growth marketing resource for accelerator communities such as Hawaii’s Blue Startups and Purple Maia’s Found Her program for women entrepreneurs, the Canadian Women’s Network and the Women Founders Network in Los Angeles, and Germinate Hawaii, the state’s first agriculture & aquaculture technology accelerator. 

About Chief Outsiders

Chief Outsiders, the nation’s leading Executives-as-a-Service firm, helps CEOs identify and deploy the fractional marketing and sales executives they need to accelerate growth. The firm’s cohesive team of more than 120 fractional executives act as Strategic Operators™ to achieve results. They blend insight, strategy, and execution to deliver revenue engines that drive long-term profitable growth for businesses. 

Chief Outsiders’ fractional executives drive growth strategy and execution plans by offering instant access to talent with highly customized and flexible engagements. Having served on the executive teams of more than 2,000 client companies, each Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Sales Officer has led marketing or sales at a diverse set of large corporations, including many Fortune 500 firms. Inc. Magazine has recognized Chief Outsiders for ten consecutive years as one of the 5,000 fastest growing privately held companies in the US. The company was also recognized as a Forbes Small Giant in 2019.

“The Growth Gears: Using a Market-Based Framework to Drive Business Success,” is an Amazon #1 best-seller for business owners and CEOs co-authored by Chief Outsiders’ CEO Art Saxby and Principal Pete Hayes. For additional information about the companies and CEOs who trust Chief Outsiders as their premier source for business growth acceleration, visit us at www.chiefoutsiders.com.

CONTACT: Sterling Wilkinson, SWilkinson@ChiefOutsiders.com