Jaleh Bisharat

Former Chief Marketing Officer at Eventbrite and Vice-President of Marketing at Amazon.com, Jaleh Bisharat is responsible for growing some of the most innovative and successful brands in technology from small businesses to global brands. She has made her name as one of the most renowned business builders and marketing executives to come out of Silicon Valley. Since receiving her AB from Harvard-Radcliffe and an MBA from Harvard Business School, she has been named as a Power 50 Marketing Executive by Advertising Age, as well as winning the Advertising Marketing 100 Award.

It is her passion for cultivating happy and successful teams that lead to high-quality customer experiences, and makes the businesses in her care flourish into technologies’ most successful brands. Throughout her 25 years of leadership experience, Jaleh has joined many businesses in their early stages, such as Accept.com, the first online person-to-person payment system.

When the company was acquired by Amazon in 1999, Jaleh was promoted to Vice President for Marketing at Amazon. Since then, she has held executive jobs in marketing at companies including OpenTable, Jawbone, Upwork and Eventbrite. Jaleh is celebrated in particular for her extensive written work on women in business and leadership. She inspires and mentors other business women to success in the work place, dealing with battling sexism and the pressures of juggling work and home life. As a speaker, she is engaging, powerful and motivational.