About

Cornelius Willis is a highly experienced and accomplished sales and marketing executive, currently serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at Clari, an AI-enabled revenue operations platform. With over 33 years of relevant experience, Cornelius has a proven track record of driving strategy and executing successful marketing campaigns. At Clari, Cornelius built a formidable marketing team that has helped the company dominate the revenue operations category. Clari's platform improves efficiency, predictability, and growth across the entire revenue process, giving revenue teams total visibility into their business. Cornelius played a key role in growing the company's ARR by 5X, increasing its valuation to $2.6B, and expanding the marketing team from 5 to 50 people. Prior to joining Clari, Cornelius held leadership positions at Google and Rackspace. At Google, he built out the GCP product marketing team from 3 to 27 people and helped grow the business from $500m to $2B. He also led a successful 3-year campaign to break into the leader's quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service. At Rackspace, Cornelius served as the Vice President of Solutions Marketing, where he led world-class teams driving solutions marketing and go-to-market/demand generation programs for Cloud Applications, Managed Data Services, and Rackspace's Startup Program. Cornelius holds an AB in English from Stanford University and has a strong tech stack that includes GCP, AI, Kubernetes, infra, Big Data, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Search, and Mobile. With his expertise in new product and business launches, marketing operations, communications strategy, market expansion, enterprise marketing, competitive positioning/de-positioning, business planning, and platform marketing, Cornelius is a category-creating CMO who can help companies achieve their growth objectives.