ROBURTA BURROUGHS 

Roburta Burroughs has established herself as a linchpin in guiding Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and educational institutions through their digital transformation journeys. She offers deep insights via her tenure in data analytics, capital markets and now AI and Cybersecurity in Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies in CS and Account Management. She has adeptness at strategic problem-solving across her career throughout many industries and has consulted startups. Her expertise has been instrumental in fostering relationships, showcasing her prowess in orchestrating complex GTM strategies across organizations, teams, and continents. Her career trajectory includes significant roles at Nasdaq, where she supported Investor Relations Professionals and C-Suite executives with critical analysis and shareholder communications and was part of the team that helped ensure over 30+ companies went public and participated in IPOs at Nasdaq. At Mixpanel, Sisense, and Amplitude, she provided insights into data analysis tools and guidance for engineers, data science, product, and marketing teams. From that, she gained knowledge about data, privacy, data governance, behavior analytics, and intelligence and how they inform and drive business decisions and product development, not to mention their overall impact. She was part of the team at WalkMe when the company went IPO, expanding her skill set into digital transformation for various industries. She is ecstatic to leverage her extensive GTM background at Abnormal Security in CS, an AI Cybersecurity company and 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 company, to combat cyber threats. By using and managing applied AI, behavioral analytics, and intelligence for the benefit of fighting real and unseen threats that impact everyday people wherever they work, Abnormal Security is making a true impact in cybersecurity for email security. They are using good AI to fight bad AI.

She is also a board director and chair of the nomination and governance committee for the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. She has helped secure sponsors, donors, and board members and created content and programming modules for the center’s audience of over 80,000 entrepreneurs. Separately and with the center, she has moderated and spoken on multiple panels on topics such as M&A, capital markets, business strategy, ESG, data analytics, AI, and cybersecurity. She is passionate about empowering all with the best technology and insights to achieve their goals. As a result, she has and continues to offer her learnings to startups and other businesses.