Brian Kardon

As Chief Marketing Officer, Brian Kardon is responsible for driving Eloqua’s global market and brand strategy, demand generation, and communications. Brian brings more than 20 years of experience in successfully implementing global marketing strategies that resulted in substantial growth. Before joining Eloqua, Brian was Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Forrester Research, where he helped to more than double the business in less than five years, and significantly improved Forrester’s profitability.

Previously, Brian was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Reed Business Information, the world's largest business publisher. During his five-year tenure at Reed, Brian was instrumental in doubling the company's annual revenues to more than $1 billion through a combination of acquisitions, alliances, and new product development. Brian also spent six years at Braxton Associates, the strategy consulting division of Deloitte Consulting, where he was director of the marketing strategy practice and worked with clients like Coca-Cola, Merck, Nabisco, Ralph Lauren, and Sears.

Brian is a popular keynote speaker addressing marketing and growth topics at The Conference Board, European ICT World Forum@CeBIT, Handelsblatt IT Forum, Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), American Business Media, American Marketing Association (AMA), The Wharton School, and Harvard Business School’s Burning Questions Conference.

Brian holds a BS and MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.