Rosie Pongracz CMO, StorJ

Storj Labs, Inc. appointed Rosie Pongracz as CMO.

She will be an integral part of the executive team as she oversees the development and execution of marketing strategy.

Bringing with her more than 20 years of senior leadership experience, she is an engineer by training, a builder by nature, and a full stack technical marketer by practice. She has launched more than 50 products and companies, led marketing teams through acquisitions and mature growth at early-stage, venture-funded, open source, and public companies such as Salesforce, IBM, VMware (Thinstall), Intel (Dialogic), Embarcadero (Idera), Carl Zeiss, CollabNet.

“I am honored to join a seasoned leadership team bringing the vision of decentralized cloud object storage to developers and enterprises. Storj is a disruptor, driving the revolution in the truly distributed cloud – Web3,” she said. “My role as CMO is to create the narrative for the company that will reach more developers building cloud applications, DeFi networks, and edge applications and to bring this next gen, distributed, sustainable vision to the enterprise.”

Storj has established momentum with developers and storage professionals by providing a more secure, private, cost-slashing alternative to the mega cloud storage lock-in and environmentally unfriendly hyper-scaler architectures. It is well positioned with a product – set to deliver on 2 major and imminent cloud architecture shifts: 1) Web3 and the Internet privacy mandate; 2) the decentralized compute stack.

“The ‘Great Resignation’ is real and the fight for talent in the technology sector is fierce. We couldn’t be happier to have Rosie join Storj as our new CMO and part of our executive team to help us continue on our growth path and blaze a trail in the decentralized storage space,” said Ben Golub, CEO. “Rosie’s experience as a full stack marketer and her ability to bring ‘all things platform’ to market, including platforms for cloud, data, ML, Internet of things and mobile is unmatched in the industry. She is an exceptional marketer and technologist.“

Pongracz was a winner of the first Google Android Challenge and is on the board of NumFOCUS, whose mission is to support open-source projects for scientific computing. Her passions are everything STEM education, diversity in tech, and animal welfare. She is a private pilot, underwater photographer, and sci-fi junkie.

She has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.

“Rosie is a fantastic addition to our executive team with an impressive background and proven track record in driving customer acquisition and brand awareness,” said Shawn Wilkinson, founder. “Rosie’s oversight will be invaluable as we continue to grow as a company and break new ground in the decentralized storage space.”