Non-Credit Certificates Online

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Executive Education Program

Instructors and Guest Speakers

Meet Your Instructors

Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.

CRO instructor, Dave Cameron

Dave Cameron, MSc

Data and Marketing Analytics Expert

Dave Cameron has over twenty-five years of experience in data science and predictive analytics. He worked at Nielsen Holdings, the global measurement and data analytics company, serving in vice-presidential roles in data science, customer segmentation, and statistical methodology.

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Sergio Corbo

Sergio Corbo, MBA, PhD

Chief Commercial Officer, Veolia North America

Sergio Corbo is a senior executive who helps Fortune 100 corporations serve customers and deliver measurable results to investors. He currently works as chief commercial officer at Veolia North America, the global leader in energy, water, waste, and environmental services. He also consults with...

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Jeremey Donovan

Jeremey Donovan, MBA, MSc, CFA

Executive Vice President, Revenue Operations (RevOps) and Strategy, Insight Partners

Over the past 25+ years, Jeremy Donovan has forged a career spanning semiconductor engineering, product development and management, and sales and marketing leadership. He is the executive vice president of Revenue Strategy and Operations at Insight Partners, a private equity firm.

Donovan is the...

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Dan Frailey

Dan Frailey, MBA

3x CRO, former Global Topic Lead on B2B GTM at Boston Consulting Group

Dan Frailey is a three-time CRO, founder of the start-up Joy of Thanks, and a revenue and sales enthusiast. Previously, Frailey was the global Topic Lead for B2B Go-To-Market Boston Consulting Group’s PIPE private equity practice, where he advised Chief Revenue Officers, CEOs, and other sales...

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Victoria Gustafson, Digital Marketing and Integrated Communications instructor

Victoria Gustafson, PhD

Senior Partner, Verde Associates

Dr. Victoria Gustafson is a transformational leader with a passion for business growth. She is a senior partner at Verde Associates, a boutique growth consulting firm. Previously, she worked for IRI and Philips in various key roles. Throughout her career, Gustafson has helped leading brands to find...

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Rachael Rohn

Rachael Rohn, MBA

Senior Vice President, Strategic Partner Engagement and General Manager, Americas West, Techstars

Rachael Rohn has nearly twenty years of experience in catalyzing business expansion and scalability. She is currently the senior vice president of Strategic Partner Engagement at Techstars, a premiere early-stage venture capital firm, where she leads Techstars’ accelerator programs. Before this role...

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Chris Trendler

Chris Trendler, JD

Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Talent, Madison Dearborn Partners

Chris Trendler is the managing director and the head of Portfolio Talent at Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm that has raised over $26 billion in capital since its inception in 1992. It operates in various verticals, including software services, financial services, healthcare, and...

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Danielle Wilkie

Danielle Wilkie, MBA

Start-Up Advisor and Leadership Coach

Danielle Wilkie is a tech company veteran with a twenty-five-year history of scaling B2B and B2C businesses across various industries, including property management, home improvement, insurance, stock footage licensing, online learning, e-commerce, and residential real estate. She is a coach and...

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Guest Speakers

Guest Speaker, Jiten Behl

Jiten Behl, MBA

CCO, Rivian and Venture Capitalist

Jiten Behl has held multiple leadership positions at Rivian, including chief strategy officer and chief growth officer. An early employee of Rivian, he built and scaled multiple functions across the business from a clean sheet, overseeing the growth of the company from ~25 employees to 14K+ over...

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UChicago Guest Speaker, Dennis Boyle

Dennis Boyle, MSc

Founding Partner of IDEO and at Stanford Design School

Dennis Boyle is a partner and a founding team member of IDEO. Dennis helps guide the Design for Health Studio at IDEO as part of its San Francisco office. Design for Health is the part of IDEO’s business that works with clients in medical and health-related industries to develop innovative physical...

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UChicago Guest Speaker, Kevin Egan

Kevin Egan

Chief Sales Officer, Atlassian

Kevin Egan serves as the chief sales officer at Atlassian and brings more than twenty-five years of enterprise sales experience and leadership to the company.

Prior to his current role, he was the vice president of North America Sales for Slack and Dropbox and held various senior sales leadership...

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UChicago Guest Speaker, Mark Roberge

Mark Roberge, MBA

CRO at HubSpot, Author of Sales Acceleration Formula, Cofounder at Stage 2 Capital, Senior Lecturer...

Mark Roberge is a cofounder and managing director at Stage 2 Capital and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School.

Prior to these roles, he was the founding CRO at HubSpot, where he scaled annualized revenue from $0 to $100 million and expanded his team from one to 450 employees. Roberge was...

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UChicago Guest Speaker, Scott Silverman

Scott Silverman, MBA

CRO at Liftoff and Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners

Scott Silverman is the chief revenue officer of Liftoff, joining the company in 2021 after its merger with Vungle, where he held the same role. Prior to Vungle, Scott was a cofounder and CRO of AerServ, a leading mobile in-app exchange and mediation platform. Silverman oversaw the sale of AerServ to...

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Additional Guest Speakers

  • Ryan Azus, CRO at Zoom
  • Leandra Fishman, CRO at Apollo.io
  • Aaron Ross, author of Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
  • Alya Woods, SVP of BD at Cooley LLP