Alice is a change-agent whose transformative initiatives intersecting strategy, brand, culture, and organization mobilize, engage, and align people—catalyzing growth, winning market share, and increasing valuations. With experience from daily operations to business strategy, she’s a veteran P&L owner, marketer, and service provider. Diplomatic and decisive, calm under pressure, she is the leader you want when the stakes are high. Her career demonstrates a unique ability to deliver results through vision, initiative, improvisation, and pragmatism.
Today she is Chief Marketing Officer at Absolute Software, a cybersecurity company. She’s also led global teams at Anaplan, Burson-Marsteller, Salesforce.com, and Autodesk. As a consultant, she founded Rivet & Spark, a strategy accelerator for business leaders and teams. Her clients have included Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), American Express, Skyline College, TE Connectivity, Cisco, Mozilla, IBM, Visa International, and Electronic Arts.
Alice is a founding San Francisco member of CHIEF, a professional network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders. In community service, she has led the boards at BATS Improv (a nonprofit theater company and school in San Francisco) and Montclair Elementary School PTA (Oakland public school).
Alice has MBAs from U.C. Berkeley and Columbia University, and a Journalism BA from San Diego State University. A single parent living in Oakland, California, with her two teens, she tunes out endless chore negotiations by knitting furiously while listening to Smartless.
