Nathalie Mainland

Nathalie is a technology leader with an affinity for impact, Nathalie has extensive experience bringing B2B SaaS offerings to market as well as building, scaling and leading businesses throughout the entire product cycle.

Nathalie’s greatest passion around working in the technology space is building and scaling for impact. She leverages more than 20 years of bringing B2B SaaS offerings to market as well as building, scaling and leading businesses throughout the entire product cycle. She is equally committed to creating healthy, inclusive environments that encourage participation and innovation so that teams can really hit their stride.

Nathalie’s background includes building the global education practice for Salesforce and growing the business at more than 35% CAGR. Before this, she re-energized growth for analytics and collaboration product lines at Blackboard and held several strategic marketing positions at Autodesk. Nathalie also led a $100 million FICO credit bureau risk score product line in North America and held several marketing and business growth leadership positions within the academic publishing industry which included launching a custom publishing platform.

As Global Head of SparkED at Alteryx, Nathalie built on the work of their co-founder and created a global education business as well as a partner ecosystem of academic institutions and government agencies. Currently, she continues to operate as an investor and board advisor, guiding publicly traded companies and independent businesses through high-growth market opportunities and transforming lagging tech initiatives through adoption of new business models.