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Aaron’s marketing background spans end\-to\-end event and campaign strategy, integrated demand generation, field marketing, email execution, event technology, vendor and budget management, lead flow, performance reporting, and sales alignment\. Aaron has led global event programs and major technology conferences, including RSA, AWS re:Invent, Snowflake Summit, Databricks, Dreamforce, NRF, Workday Rising, and SAP Sales Cloud roadshows\. Aaron doubled event leads to 3,200, increased MQL conversion 160% to 10%, and generated $5\.6 million in opportunity pipeline during the first year managing an event program\. At Medallia, Aaron helped manage a user conference with more than 20,000 registrations, supporting multi\-million\-dollar influenced pipeline and seven\-figure sourced pipeline\. Aaron is particularly strong at building scalable event systems, brand standards, campaign operations, and measurable programs from strategy through execution and reporting\. ## Services - Fractional Marketing - Marketing Campaign Management - Demand Generation - Wealth Accumulation - Wealth Management Services - Personal Development - Finance - Financial Management - Integrated Marketing - Email Marketing - Booth Staff Training - Creative Problem Solving - Brand Awareness - Field Marketing - Marketing Event Planning - Budget Management - Sponsorship - Trade Show Management - Vendor Management - Project Management ## Highlights - Helps families and individuals at GFI Global Financial Impact gain clarity and confidence around retirement, college savings, life insurance, and wealth strategies\. - Doubled event leads to 3,200 and increased MQL conversion 160% to 10%\. - Generated $5\.6 million in opportunity pipeline in the first year of managing an event program\. - Led cross\-channel, event\-led growth initiatives at Yubico across Canada, Public Sector, and LATAM markets\. - Aligned Yubico programs with Sales and GTM pipeline priorities, supporting onsite meetings and deal progression\. - Owned Yubico campaign coordination, lead flow management, performance reporting, vendor oversight, and budget tracking\. - Owned integrated demand\-generation, event, content, and campaign strategy at Privacera, now Trust3 AI\. - Led campaign segmentation, email nurtures, webinars, events, internal enablement, stakeholder reporting, optimization, and email QA at Privacera\. - Was retained by Privacera as a contractor during a critical transition period to maintain continuity, performance, and institutional knowledge for events and campaigns\. - Helped manage Medallia’s annual user conference, including a virtual event and leaderboard with more than 20,000 registrations\. - Supported multi\-million\-dollar influenced pipeline and seven\-figure sourced pipeline through Medallia’s annual user conference\. - Launched and managed Medallia’s Experience Community on Bevy, from integrations and taxonomy through field education and live meetups\. - Launched and managed Medallia’s Experts on Demand program, passively influencing seven\-figure pipeline in FY21 and six\-figure pipeline in FY22\. - Managed Medallia tier\-one conferences including Dreamforce, NRF, and Workday Rising from end to end for lead generation\. - Managed event technology for Medallia’s global events team, including Cvent, Bevy Labs, and Oncehub\. - Managed more than 70 SAP events, including SAP Sales Cloud global roadshows with regional VPs and Field Marketing teams to generate leads\. - Managed CallidusCloud C3 User Conference logistics at SAP, including food and beverage, giveaways, vendor and sponsor coordination, Cvent registration, and customer support\. - Managed SAP employee engagement events, including Presidents Club and company holiday events\. - Built event and webinar programs from scratch as the sole event marketer at a startup\. - Managed two competing conferences simultaneously through strategic planning and team coordination\. - Built scalable event\-marketing processes and systems, including brand standards for consistent event assets and graphics\. - Uses monday\.com for project management and event\-timeline tracking\. - Managed major technology conferences including RSA, AWS re:Invent, Snowflake Summit, and Databricks\. - Created revenue\-generating corporate team\-building and private youth\-overnight programs at Chabot Space & Science Center\. - Designed event\-contract, catering, and client\-responsibility policies at Chabot Space & Science Center\. - Managed SPIN event bookings, payments, memberships, floor plans, and Banquet Event Orders using Tripleseat and SevenRooms\. - Led Nutro in\-store pet\-nutrition demonstrations, customer education, upselling, inventory maintenance, and daily sales reporting\. - Developed California standards\-aligned elementary enrichment activities at Aspiranet and science programs for pre\-K through sixth\-grade audiences at Mad Science of the Bay Area\. - Created and taught natural\-science and wildlife interpretive programs at East Bay Regional Park District\. ## Experience - **Financial Services Professional at GFI Global Financial Impact** (2025\-10\-01–present) — I help families and individuals turn financial stress into clarity and confidence, guiding them through retirement, college savings, life insurance, and wealth strategies that fit their lives\. - **Senior Events and Campaigns Manager at Privacera \- now Trust3 AI** (2025\-03\-01–2025\-11\-01) — Retained as a contractor to lead and execute high\-impact events and campaign initiatives during a critical transition period, ensuring continuity, performance, and institutional knowledge retention\. - **Senior Manager, Global Events at Yubico** (2025\-03\-01–2025\-11\-01) — Led cross\-channel marketing initiatives with events as a core growth lever, overseeing strategy, execution, and operations across Canada, Public Sector, and LATAM markets\. Partnered closely with Sales and GTM teams to align programs with pipeline priorities, support onsite meetings, and accelerate deal progression\. Owned end\-to\-end program operations, including campaign coordination, lead flow management, performance reporting, vendor oversight, and budget tracking\. - **Senior Events and Campaigns Manager at Privacera \- now Trust3 AI** (2022\-01\-01–2025\-03\-01) — Owned end\-to\-end program and campaign strategy aligned to company marketing and revenue goals, spanning integrated demand generation, virtual and in\-person events, and content\-driven campaigns\. • Led integrated marketing campaigns from strategy through execution, including audience segmentation, email nurtures, webinars, events, and internal enablement\. • Partnered cross\-functionally with marketing, sales, and product to align messaging, timing, and execution across channels\. • Delivered ongoing stakeholder reporting and performance insights, measuring campaign impact and optimizing future programs\. • Managed email marketing execution, including content build, QA, and cross\-device/client validation\. - **Marketing Events Manager at Medallia** (2021\-06\-01–2022\-01\-01) — A core member of the Global Events Team that managed our annual user conference, working cross functionally with global marketing teams in various tasks including launching the promotion plan, building the virtual event, managing the leaderboard with 20K\+ registrations, working with alliances on sponsorship and maintaining sales assets resulting in multi\-million dollar influence pipeline and seven\-figure sourced pipeline\. • Managed and launched the Medallia Experience Community on the Bevy platform from initial integrations and building out platform taxonomy to educating the field and managing live meetups with professional services team and embedded experts\. • Additional responsibilities included: assisting with annual President's Club, managing partnerships such as Customer Experience Professional Association \(CXPA\) and Medallia Brand Ambassadors, as well as other ad hoc events and programs\. - **Marketing Events Specialist at Medallia** (2019\-04\-01–2021\-05\-01) — As part of the Global Events Team I managed tier 1 conferences \(e\.g\. • Dreamforce, NRF, Workday Rising\) from end\-to\-end to generate leads\. • Managed and implemented event technology that was used for our global events team for event\-related tools such as Cvent, Bevy Labs, Oncehub and other tools as needed\. • Launched and managed Medallia’s Experts on Demand program, which passively influenced seven\-figure pipeline for FY21 and six\-figure in pipeline for FY22\. • Collaborated with other teams on the writing, designing, and producing event and program content, invitations, web landing pages, etc\., working closely with sales and field marketing for execution\. - **Marketing Event Coordinator at SAP** (2017\-01\-01–2019\-01\-01) — Managed logistics for CallidusCloud \(C3\) User Conference including F&B, conference giveaways, communications with vendors, sponsor management, attendee registration via Cvent, customer support, etc\. • Managed 70\+ events including a global roadshows for SAP Sales Cloud working with regional VP’s and Field Marketing teams to generate leads\. • Managed multiple employee engagement events such as Presidents Club, company holiday party, and other ad hoc events/ projects\. • \*Acquired CallidusCloud April 2018 - **Event Sales Coordinator at SPIN** (2016\-01\-01–2017\-01\-01) — Managed calendars on Tripple Seat and Seven Rooms Booking Software to process payments, and to book advanced reservations, small social events, and youth birthday parties\. • Sold and managed accounts for annual SPiN Memberships\. • Created daily event floor plans and ensure accuracy of all Banquet Event Orders\. • Performed administrative duties such as filing, ordering office supplies, managing phones\. - **Programs and Events Manager \- Contract at Chabot Space & Science Center** (2015\-01\-01–2020\-01\-01) — Assisted in the successful set\-up, execution, and clean\-up of Chabot’s public programs and events, private facility rentals, youth scout groups, and birthday parties\. • Coordinated with food vendors and entertainers upon arrival\. • Ensured programs and events ran according to schedule to maximize client experience\. - **Events Coordinator at Mad Science Of The Bay Area** (2013\-01\-01–2015\-01\-01) — Created and sustained an ongoing relationship with new and existing clients in booking science related special events, in\-class workshops and assemblies that are correlated to California State Science Standards for pre\-K through 6th grade for schools, day care centers, libraries and corporations\. • Coordinated and managed program logistics to ensure programs are booked effectively and accurate on master calendar • Prepared workshop materials for in\-class workshops and marketing supplies for marketing events\. • Developed brand awareness and maintain social media presence across Facebook and Twitter platforms\. • Prepared contracts, proposals, and confirmation letters, and follow\-up on outstanding balances\. • Worked cross\-departmentally in booking birthday parties, performing birthday party shows, teaching STEM related classes, and assist with and troubleshoot camp and after school program registration\. - **Program Coordinator at Aspiranet** (2011\-02\-01–2011\-04\-01) — Developed informal educational lessons and enrichment activities to elementary school students in accordance with California state standards\. • Provided safe and enriched environment in which they will love to learn in order to develop their social and academic skills\. • Assisted students with homework to ensure they understood and completed their assignments\. • Inspired students to resolve personal issues by using conflict resolution tactics\. • Led small groups of students in various recreational activities\. - **Sales Coordinator at Chabot Space & Science Center** (2011\-01\-01–2013\-01\-01) — Coordinated and managed internal and external event logistics and client needs for full cycle of the event sale\. • Designed and implemented new policies and procedures for event contracts, catering policies, and client responsibilities\. • Created revenue generating programs, such as a corporate team buildings and private youth overnights\. • Arranged staff schedules to ensure proper staffing for events, ensure proper set\-up for events, and sustained relationships with outside vendors/preferred caterers before, during and after events\. • Trained staff on sales and event policies and procedures to prepare them to manage events\. • Purchased and maintained inventory to ensure all supplies, food, and equipment are ordered and/or in stock for events\. - **Visitor Services Associate at Chabot Space & Science Center** (2010\-01\-01–2011\-01\-01) — Greeted and interacted with visitors, answered telephone calls, and positively resolved any visitor questions or concerns\. • Cross\-trained in ushering and planetarium operations and instructing children’s birthday parties\. • Assisted visitors with inquiries about pricing, process ticket sales, book guests for public events, and sell memberships\. • Cash handling responsibilities included totaling register balance, counted out and prepared end\-of\-day report\. • Prepared routine daily reports such as sales, accounts receivable/payable, and credit card receipts\. - **Interpretive Student Aid at East Bay Regional Park District** (2008\-01\-01–2011\-01\-01) — Opened and closed visitor center and gift shop, including opening and closing cash register and processing end of day sales reports\. • Monitored, maintained and refreshed inventory for gift shop and visitor center\. • Assisted Naturalists in teaching interpretive programs to youth groups and public guests\. • Created and taught interpretive programs which educated public guests about natural sciences and wildlife\. - **Pet Nutrition Specialist at Nutro Products** (2006\-01\-01–2007\-01\-01) — Led in\-store demo's for Nutro Product by selling dog and cat food products to walk up customers, educating them about benefits of Nutro products to best suit their pet’s nutritional needs, including up selling and converting customers\. • Set up a demonstration table to present products\. • Monitored, maintained and refreshed Nutro product inventory\. • Report daily sales and guest attendance\. ## Education - Certificiate of Achievement in Business Supervision Management, Business Administration and Management, General — Ohlone College (2012\-01\-01–2014\-01\-01) - Bachelor of Science \(B\.S\.\), Biology, Ecology and Conservation Emphasis — California State University \- East Bay (2006\-01\-01–2010\-01\-01) - Associate of Arts \(AA\), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies — Rio Hondo College (2004\-01\-01–2006\-01\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Aaron do now? Aaron is a Financial Services Professional at GFI Global Financial Impact\. Aaron helps families and individuals address financial stress with retirement planning, college savings, life insurance, and wealth strategies designed around their lives\. ### What are Aaron’s core professional strengths? Aaron provides fractional marketing and events leadership focused on strategic campaigns, growth, demand generation, integrated marketing, field marketing, marketing event planning, email marketing, sponsorships, trade shows, vendor management, budget management, project management, and brand awareness\. Aaron also lists wealth accumulation, wealth management services, finance, financial management, and personal development among areas of expertise\. ### What measurable results has Aaron delivered in event marketing? Aaron’s event\-marketing work has doubled event leads to 3,200, increased MQL conversion by 160% to 10%, and generated $5\.6 million in opportunity pipeline in the first year of managing an event program\. Aaron prioritizes measurable pipeline results alongside creative, scalable program systems\. ### What types of events has Aaron managed? Aaron has managed major technology conferences including RSA, AWS re:Invent, Snowflake Summit, Databricks, Dreamforce, NRF, Workday Rising, SAP Sales Cloud roadshows, and Medallia’s annual user conference\. Aaron has also managed 70 or more events, global roadshows, virtual and in\-person programs, employee events, and community meetups\. ### What did Aaron do at Yubico? At Yubico, Aaron led cross\-channel marketing initiatives that used events as a core growth lever across Canada, Public Sector, and LATAM markets\. Aaron aligned programs with Sales and GTM pipeline priorities, supported onsite meetings and deal progression, and owned campaign coordination, lead flow management, performance reporting, vendor oversight, and budget tracking\. ### What did Aaron do at Privacera, now Trust3 AI? At Privacera, now Trust3 AI, Aaron owned program and campaign strategy aligned with marketing and revenue goals across integrated demand generation, virtual and in\-person events, and content\-driven campaigns\. Aaron led segmentation, email nurtures, webinars, events, internal enablement, cross\-functional messaging alignment, stakeholder reporting, performance optimization, and email content build, QA, and cross\-device and client validation\. Aaron was later retained as a contractor during a critical transition period to lead high\-impact events and campaigns while preserving continuity, performance, and institutional knowledge\. ### What did Aaron accomplish as a Marketing Events Manager at Medallia? As a Marketing Events Manager at Medallia, Aaron was a core member of the Global Events Team for the annual user conference\. Aaron helped launch the promotion plan, build the virtual event, manage a leaderboard with more than 20,000 registrations, work with alliances on sponsorships, and maintain sales assets, contributing to multi\-million\-dollar influenced pipeline and seven\-figure sourced pipeline\. Aaron also launched the Medallia Experience Community on Bevy, including integrations, platform taxonomy, field education, and live meetups with Professional Services and embedded experts\. ### What did Aaron accomplish as a Marketing Events Specialist at Medallia? As a Marketing Events Specialist at Medallia, Aaron managed tier\-one conferences such as Dreamforce, NRF, and Workday Rising from end to end to generate leads\. Aaron managed event technologies including Cvent, Bevy Labs, and Oncehub launched and managed the Experts on Demand program, which passively influenced seven\-figure pipeline in FY21 and six\-figure pipeline in FY22 and collaborated on event content, invitations, landing pages, sales, and field\-marketing execution\. ### What did Aaron do at SAP and CallidusCloud? At SAP, Aaron managed CallidusCloud C3 User Conference logistics, including food and beverage, giveaways, vendor communication, sponsor management, Cvent registration, and customer support\. Aaron managed more than 70 events, including SAP Sales Cloud global roadshows with regional vice presidents and Field Marketing teams to generate leads, and also managed employee engagement programs such as Presidents Club and company holiday events\. SAP acquired CallidusCloud in April 2018\. ### How does Aaron build and operate scalable event programs? Aaron has built event and webinar programs from scratch as the sole event marketer at a startup\. Aaron has also run two competing conferences simultaneously through strategic planning and team coordination, built scalable processes and systems, implemented brand standards for consistent event assets and graphics, and used monday\.com to manage project work and event timelines\. ### What did Aaron do at SPIN? At SPIN, Aaron managed Tripleseat and SevenRooms calendars, payments, advanced reservations, small social events, and youth birthday parties\. Aaron sold and managed annual SPiN Membership accounts, created daily event floor plans and accurate Banquet Event Orders, and handled administrative work including filing, office supplies, and phones\. ### What did Aaron do as a Sales Coordinator at Chabot Space & Science Center? As a Sales Coordinator at Chabot Space & Science Center, Aaron managed internal and external event logistics and client needs throughout the event\-sales cycle\. Aaron created policies for event contracts, catering, and client responsibilities developed revenue\-generating corporate team\-building and private youth\-overnight programs scheduled staff managed vendor and caterer relationships trained staff and maintained event supplies, food, and equipment inventory\. ### What other work did Aaron perform at Chabot Space & Science Center? As a Visitor Services Associate at Chabot Space & Science Center, Aaron greeted visitors, resolved questions and concerns, handled calls, ticket sales, public\-event bookings, and membership sales\. Aaron was cross\-trained in ushering, planetarium operations, and children’s birthday parties, and handled cash balancing plus daily sales, accounts receivable and payable, and credit\-card reporting\. As a contract Programs and Events Manager, Aaron helped set up, execute, and clean up public programs, private rentals, scout\-group events, and birthday parties coordinated arriving food vendors and entertainers and kept programs on schedule to maximize the client experience\. ### What did Aaron do at Nutro Products? At Nutro Products, Aaron led in\-store demonstrations selling dog and cat food, educated walk\-up customers about product benefits and pet nutritional needs, upsold and converted customers, maintained the demonstration area and inventory, and reported daily sales and guest attendance\. ### What did Aaron do at Aspiranet? At Aspiranet, Aaron developed informal educational lessons and enrichment activities for elementary students in line with California state standards\. Aaron provided a safe learning environment, supported homework completion and understanding, used conflict\-resolution tactics to help students address personal issues, and led small\-group recreational activities\. ### What did Aaron do at Mad Science of the Bay Area? At Mad Science of the Bay Area, Aaron built client relationships for science\-related special events, workshops, and assemblies aligned with California State Science Standards for pre\-K through sixth grade at schools, day care centers, libraries, and corporations\. Aaron coordinated program logistics and master\-calendar accuracy, prepared workshop and marketing materials, maintained Facebook and Twitter activity, prepared contracts and proposals, followed up on balances, and supported birthday parties, STEM classes, camps, and after\-school registration\. ### What did Aaron do at East Bay Regional Park District? At East Bay Regional Park District, Aaron opened and closed the visitor center and gift shop, processed end\-of\-day sales reporting, maintained inventory, assisted Naturalists with youth and public interpretive programs, and created and taught programs about natural sciences and wildlife\. ### What education does Aaron have? Aaron earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology with an Ecology and Conservation emphasis from California State University, East Bay an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies from Rio Hondo College and a Certificate of Achievement in Business Supervision Management in Business Administration and Management, General from Ohlone College\. ### How does Aaron approach marketing and events leadership? Aaron combines strategic planning with hands\-on execution\. Aaron is motivated by building creative systems that deliver business results and has comprehensive event\-marketing experience covering strategy, execution, operations, and reporting\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/aaron\-gonzales\-56682350