Elisa Steele

Elisa Steele is CEO and President of Jive Software. In this role, Elisa is responsible for leading and overseeing the company. Elisa was formerly Jive's executive vice president of marketing and products, where she was responsible for Jive's vision and end-to-end global marketing and product functions. She also previously served as Jive's executive vice president of strategy and CMO.

Prior to Jive, Elisa was corporate vice president and chief marketing officer of consumer apps and services at Microsoft, including brands such as Bing, Internet Explorer, Lync, MSN, Outlook.com and Skype, among others. She was appointed to this position in July 2013, having joined the company a year earlier to be chief marketing officer for Skype in July 2012.[1]

She previously served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Yahoo!. She was nominated to this post in March 2009.[2]

Previously she was senior vice president of corporate marketing at NetApp Inc. and has held management positions at Sun Microsystems, AT&T and JavaSoft.

Elisa holds a Master of Business Administration degree from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Jive Software and Amber Alert GPS and is an innovation advisor to the non-profit organization, Equality Now. She previously served on the board of directors of RMG Networks, the advisory board to consumer companies CareZone and Eyeona, the Interactive Advertising Bureau board of directors and executive committee from 2009-2011, and the Forbes Executive Women advisory board. In 2009, Advertising Age named Elisa a "Woman to Watch." She is currently a member and volunteer for National Charity League and donates time and resources in her local school community.

References

  1. ↑ Swisher, Kara (2011-07-24), "Former Yahoo Marketing Head Joins Skype as CMO", AllThingsD, retrieved 2012-07-25
  2. ↑ Kell, John (2009-03-23), "Yahoo Names New Marketing Chief", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 2009-03-23
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