Marie Bahl, CMO of Uptempo, is a senior marketing and sales professional with a strong technical background and a knack for making the most complex technologies understandable and desirable to their intended audiences. With two decades of technology, business-to-business and business-to-consumer experience, Marie defines and drives highly effective market strategies, defines winning brands, solutions and customer acquisition strategies. Marie’s experience has spanned a wide array of technology companies that include Opower, Tendril Networks, Comverge, Yahoo.com, ZOHO.com; Netrake; TrueSpectra; NetFlip and Sun Microsystems, to names a few. Marie began her high-tech career at Silicon Valley’s premier Internet public relations agency Neihaus Ryan Haller in their enterprise software practice.)