Get To Know Zilliant [May 18]

Danielle Schulz-Behrend leads the Zilliant marketing team and is responsible for accelerating growth strategies, company positioning, demand generation, product marketing, corporate communications, sales enablement, and market positioning.

Before serving as head of marketing, Danielle served as Zilliant’s senior director of marketing content and communications for four years and has held marketing and business development roles at Zilliant. Danielle is passionate about growing the company’s market share while delivering outstanding thought leadership.

Prior to joining Zilliant in 2013, Danielle held advertising, public relations, and media relations positions with the Austin Hotel & Lodging Association and The Westport Group marketing agency. She also served on the board of directors for Austin Women in Communications from 2009-2011. Danielle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Texas State University.

Pete brings 20 years of product strategy experience, helping Fortune 500 companies harness Big Data to improve business performance. As Senior Vice President of Products and Science, Pete is responsible for leading Zilliant’s R&D efforts and defining the product lifecycle and requirements. Prior to Zilliant, Pete served as Vice President of Product Marketing at Yclip. Prior to Yclip, Pete managed KD1’s highly scalable data mining and decision support applications used by Walgreens, Lowe’s Home Improvement and Pepsi/Frito Lay. He also worked at Kelly Information Systems where he oversaw product development and implementation of their multi-terabyte data warehouse analytics product line. In addition, Pete has worked in consulting and product development roles with Category Management, Inc. and Procter & Gamble. He earned his B.B.A. in Quantitative Analysis and Information Systems from the University of Cincinnati.

For the past 10 years, Dave has been responsible for the delivery of various pricing solutions on the Zilliant platform, and he has most recently led the cross-portfolio product development program. He’s led the initial development and release of several Zilliant products including the IQ Anywhere API layer, the initial release of Deal Manager and Sales IQ Opportunities, and the migration of Price IQ to the SaaS Platform. Prior to the product group, Dave led the solutions engineering team responsible for successful project implementations. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas.

As the Product Management owner of Zilliant’s Deal Manager solution, Scott works with customers, Product Development, Implementation and Sales to ensure that Deal Manager provides maximum benefit to customers. Prior to Zilliant, Scott worked with numerous technology providers in a Product Management/Solutions Services Consultant capacity. His experience includes managing solutions that support Supply Chain Planning & Execution, Price Management, and Quote-to-Cash.

Kevin Pierson has been overlooking implementations of Zilliant Data Science-based pricing models for five years. As a Data Science expert, he is solving complex pricing challenges for Zilliant customers and is responsible for consistency of solutions across a team of ten data scientists who bring their quantitative or engineering backgrounds, paired with solid consulting experience. Kevin and his team are responsible for ensuring that the pricing models are configured to meet business needs and pricing strategies are executed effectively. Additionally, they devote time to research and development activities, continuous methodology and platform innovation, and close collaboration with the Zilliant product and engineering teams to increase the value of the software and science provided to customers. Prior to Zilliant, Kevin worked in strategy consulting at AlixPartners, focusing on financial modelling, applied analytics and data science, for leading banking customers across Europe.

On the Product team, Brian manages Zilliant’s suites of Sales Growth Solutions: Sales IQ, Cart IQ, Campaign Manager, and Sales Planner. This gives him the opportunity to work closely with new and existing customers and bring their experiences back to the engineering teams to drive continued innovation in the product suite. Before joining the Product Management team, Brian spent 7 years as an Engagement Manager on Zilliant’s professional services team. Prior to Zilliant, Brian spent 5 years leading marketing for a electrical distributor – an experience he still leans heavily on to relate to and help solve the challenges faced by Zilliant’s B2B customer base. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and a MA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.