Ashley Kramer is the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at GitLab Inc. (NASDAQ: GTLB), where she draws on her experience in marketing, product, and technology to position GitLab as the leading DevSecOps platform for software innovation. A former engineer, Ashley has a passion for solving the challenge of positioning and messaging software platforms to technical audiences. She has a strong track record of transforming organizations, discovering, and integrating acquisitions, building strategic roadmaps, as well as messaging and positioning products. She has developed go-to-market strategies at companies like Alteryx, Tableau, Amazon, and Oracle. Ashley is a frequent contributor to top-tier publications such as Forbes and VentureBeat, and a speaker at premier industry events such as Saastr, SaaStock and Fortune Brainstorm Tech focusing on topics like “The Future of Work Takes an Open-source Mindset,” “Your Best Marketing Asset: Open Source Communities,” “How to Become a Company Everyone Wants to Work For,” and The Future of Tech. Ashley serves as a Board Director for Seeq Corporation and an Advisor for Snorkel AI and Alation. She has an MSBA in Computer Information Science from Colorado State University and a BS in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, where she played Division I soccer.