PAULA SKOKOWSKI

Co-Founder, General Partner

2016 - Current

Oxonian Ventures is the leading early-stage venture fund investing in Oxford alumni founded companies, using investment capital from Oxford alumni and affiliated institutions.

Co-Founder, Board Member

2017

Board Member

2020

Founding member of FirstBoard.io - a curated group of diverse Technology Leaders working together to add diversity to corporate boards.

Board Member - Alumni

2019 - 2024

Appointed to the University of Oxford Alumni Board to advise on increasing engagement with the 360,000+ Alumni around the world. Oxford has a 800 year history of teaching and is ranked as the #1 University in the world in the 2023 Times Higher Education Ranking.

Chief Marketing Officer - Cybersecurity

2020 - 2022

Led development of all marketing activities from the ground up, including messaging, positioning, digital marketing, product launch, and brand development, enabling first company wins in fintech, banking, gaming, social and mcommerce for location-based fraud prevention and frictionless mobile authentication solutions, $15.5M in Series A financing, and deployment in 200M+ devices.

Chief Marketing Officer - Cybersecurity

2017 - 2019

Launched seven new products over two years for pioneering cybersecurity company in hardware-based authentication, increasing company valuation from $100M - $600M, $25M Series C. Led development of all marketing activities, including brand development, demand generation and communications strategy, hiring and developing a high performing team. IPO Oct, 2023.

Vice President - Marketing, Brand.- Cybersecurity

2016 - 2017

Interim Vice President, Marketing and Global Brand, creating corporate positioning, messaging and brand strategy for VC-backed AI cybersecurity SaaS company. Company ranked by Deloitte as the #1 fastest-growing company in California; named by Fortune as one of the leading AI companies. Acquired for $1B by F5, Jan 2020.

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) - Information Security SaaS

2011 - 2016

Designed and executed all aspects of global go-to-market strategy, including new-category product definition, packaging, pricing, marketing and sales development. Enabled company to achieve 70% YOY growth, reach profitability and raise $12M late stage private equity funding, $500M valuation. Grew customer base from 25 to over 2000+ enterprise customers, 15M+ users. Recognized as Market Leader, Gartner MQ, Forrester Wave, Aragon Globe. Recruited and developed high performing team.

VP Marketing

2007 - 2011

Successfully achieved product/market fit. Designed, implemented and scaled all marketing and sales enablement from the ground up, including brand development, corporate messaging and positioning, analyst relations, content marketing, digital marketing, Marketo/Salesforce implementations and demand generation programs.

VP Marketing - Voice Interface

2000 - 2002

Developed and launched go-to-market strategy for General Magic's VoiceXML-based development platform, raising $25M funding. Platform used for GM's Onstar Virtual Assistant, the first commercially available in-car conversational speech interface. Led corporate and product marketing in addition to managing the voice user interface design team.

Executive Director - IoT

1991 - 2000

Key contributor to company’s growth from first product launch to 4000+ customers and successful IPO. Echelon was an early market leader in IoT. Recruited 250+ companies worldwide, including Honeywell, Philips, GE, Johnson Controls, Motorola to partner in developing first IoT devices, interoperability standards and global co-branding initiative. (Acquired by Adesto in 2018)