About
Meet ayeQ
Our Story
ayeQ began as a successful boutique consulting agency that helped both emerging and mature B2B technology companies grow faster. With a strategy to execute against, products packaged in a way prospects want to buy, great lead generation campaigns, metrics-based systems to optimize performance, and process that aligned the whole team, our clients experienced rapid growth – accelerating sales, building brand, gaining market share, and achieving predictable revenue. Throughout our consulting work, ayeQ RevOps Automation was concepted, built, and proven to give our clients enterprise-level marketing and sales expertise with an engine on which to execute strategy and optimize performance.
Today, ayeQ is a SaaS software company with an AI-enabled RevOps engine that defines a new market space: RevOps Automation. ayeQ brings together decades of successful methodologies and processes into a scalable platform that helps B2B enterprises grow faster by delivering a mature revenue operations discipline in a fraction of the time and cost of building it internally. ayeQ aligns leadership, marketing, sales, customer success and finance around a deliberate, collaborative growth strategy, translates that strategy into an executable model automatically, directs the activities of growth teams, and measures performance in real time to rapidly optimize resources. ayeQ shows you exactly what your sales and marketing investment is producing, and helps you continuously improve the output.
Our Mission
To deliver a collaborative, data-driven platform that simplifies the creation, execution, and optimization of go-to-market strategy.
Our Vision
To empower the entrepreneurial mindset and simplify the path to growth for B2B technology companies.
Our Philosophy
To foster collaborative, cohesive teams by unifying them behind a clear strategy with actionable goals. We believe that when every team member can clearly see how they impact overall success, they become more engaged and more powerful.
Our Values
We Are Driven
We believe in purpose over profit, and doing right by our customers.
We Are Focused
We believe we can do anything, but not everything.
We Are Curious
We know there’s always more to learn.
We Are Accountable
We do what we say we’re going to do.
We Are Challengers
We call it like we see it, then move forward together as a team.
We Are Present
We stay engaged and make time for fun.
“I’ve had the dream of creating this platform from the moment I stepped into a marketing leadership role almost 20 years ago. As an engineer by training, I saw the science that underpinned marketing and sales, but I had to build the engine by hand for every marketing department I led. It wasn’t until I found the right team that we could make the dream a reality. Every member of our team is remarkable, and together we have built a remarkable company. We have fun every day, and we celebrate the accomplishments of our clients – because their results signify our success.”
Dana Marxer, MSEE, MBA ayeQ Founder and CEO
Leadership Team
We are a team of entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, marketers, product managers, and sales professionals – all passionate about helping B2B organizations grow faster and smarter using RevOps Automation.
Dana has led B2B marketing and product teams for multiple high-growth technology companies in various industries including business intelligence, healthcare, manufacturing, supply chain, and non-profit sectors. An engineer by background, Dana’s metrics-oriented growth engine, as well as strategic thought leadership approach, have led to dramatic revenue growth, strategic transactions, and IPOs. Almost a decade ago, Dana created Gen5 as a business accelerator that focuses on engineering a data-driven path to revenue. As the CEO of ayeQ, she brings a unique mix of skills as an innovative, strategic leader, with the analytical approach and tactical execution of an engineer. While Dana has delivered impressive business results for all companies she has served, she holds her ability to build great teams as her most valuable gift.
Dana earned a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering and Economics from Dartmouth College, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Thayer School at Dartmouth College, a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, and an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Dana enjoys fly fishing, hiking, and gardening in her free time. That said, she is the mother of 5 boys. She has no free time.
Ian is an innovative Marketing and Customer Operations executive with a history of driving measurable results for growth-oriented, Private Equity and VC-backed SaaS companies.
Most recently, Ian spent the past 5 years at FranConnect, first as CMO and then promoted to COO, responsible for Customer Success, Professional Services, Training, and Technology Partnerships. During his tenure, he drove substantial improvements in Gross and Net Churn rates, One-time/Services revenue, Gross Margin, and Net Promoter Score, while the company tripled in size and doubled its EBITDA marging.
Prior to FranConnect, Ian Marketing and Sales Development at CARTO, a global spatial analytics software company. At CARTO he defined the Location Intelligence market and transformed the business model from a developer-focused sale to solution-selling in target accounts. Before CARTO, Ian was CMO at TrackMaven (a Marketing analytics SaaS company acquired by Skyword), where he built the Marketing function from the ground up and helped the business grow 10x in 2.5 years.
Earlier in his career, Ian led Marketing at CEB (now Gartner), where he launched “The Challenger Sale”, the Wall Street Journal best-selling book that transformed Sales and Marketing by explaining the value of leading with insight in customer conversations. Ian also has held Marketing and Product Marketing leadership positions at Software AG/webMethods, Approva (acquired by Infor), SAP, and MicroStrategy. Ian earned his B.S. in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (Proud Tar Heel).
Kevin is a software architect that has worked to bring quality software, decisions, and processes to every software and stack he is working in. From simple, single-page forms to complex, real-time, international applications, he excels at choosing quality software, frameworks, and infrastructure needed to get the job done correctly while minimizing technical debt and nurturing an environment of rapid delivery. Once the grander decisions are made, Kevin thrives at attacking each problem from every angle, analyzing edge cases, and solving issues before they arise. As the Chief Architect of ayeQ, Kevin is focused on finding unique solutions to delivering the capabilities and information companies need before they know they need it in accessible and intuitive ways all the while being committed to addressing the changing ecosystem that is technology today for the benefit of his clients.
Kevin is a proud Florida Gator having graduated with a degree in Computer Science, a proud husband and father of three wonderful children, and most of all, a proud believer in Jesus Christ as the Savior of this world. He believes that any question can find its answer in the Bible and is constantly amazed at the many parallels between quality software development and Biblical Christian living.
Jenny brings over 20 years of sales and marketing operations experience to ayeQ. As the Chief Operating Officer at ayeQ, she wears multiple hats – from aligning short-term goals with long-term vision, ensuring that all things administrative and operational run like clockwork, and constantly working to make processes and systems more effective and efficient. In addition, she works in close collaboration with the entire ayeQ team to ensure the success of all client deliverables – on time and on budget. Previously, Jenny worked at Siemens where she was responsible for customer and prospect events, sales and marketing operations, and was a project manager for global marketing.
Jenny earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a native Charlottean and enjoys giving back to and volunteering in the community. When she’s not keeping the ayeQ team in line, Jenny enjoys spending days on the water and time with her family.
Dana Marxer
MSEE, MBA
Founder
Chief Executive Officer
Jeremy
Sharp
Chief Revenue Officer
Ian
Walsh
Chief Marketing Officer
Kevin Thompson
Chief Architect
Jenny Keinath
Chief Operating Officer
Scott
Toney
Strategic
Advisor
Fred
Richards
Strategic
Advisor
Karim
Lokas
Strategic
Advisor
Christoph Risch
Co-Founder
Advisor
Kia Christopher
Co-Founder
Advisor
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ayeQ is always looking for exceptional people who want to be part of a growing team. Review our open positions, or just reach out!
