Carol Carpenter

Carol is a geek with a passion for technology and solving customer problems. She’s been in tech marketing for all of her career, starting as a product manager at Apple. She loves creating new categories, scaling teams, and optimizing go-to-market activities. Over her career, Carol has built high-performance teams in both small and large companies in varying roles as CMO, GM, CEO. Most recently, she served as CMO of VMware where she led the transformation of the business from license to subscription and Saas. Prior to VMware, Carol served as the VP Marketing of Google Cloud, scaling the business from approximately $5B to over $12B.

She is particularly proud of the high-performance teams she’s developed and the fact that many of her prior marketing mavens are all doing impactful work across tech companies. She continues to mentor women and students via the HBS women entrepreneurship program, the Stanford alumni network and Monte Jade.