Artico Search Recruits Chief Marketing Officer for CommerceHub
June 19, 2023 – Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor of Artico Search recently assisted in the recruitment of Kevin Iaquinto as the new chief marketing officer of CommerceHub. “We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to the team,” said Bryan Dove, CEO of CommerceHub. “He is a proven leader and innovator with tremendous experience in creating category-leading brands and teams. I am confident that Kevin will help reimagine and scale our go-to-market efforts and take them to new heights.” Mr. Iaquinto is a proven technology marketing executive with a track record in scaling public and private SaaS companies and leading organizations through significant growth stages, resulting in numerous successful IPOs and strategic acquisitions. He brings over two decades of SaaS marketing experience to CommerceHub and was most recently chief marketing officer at Blue Yonder, the supply-chain software category leader. At Blue Yonder, he helped lead a brand and business transformation that resulted in Panasonic buying Blue Yonder for $7.1 billion in 2021.
Previously, Mr. Iaquinto served as CMO to SaaS software leaders Deltek and Software AG. He was named Marketing Executive of the Year by PR World News and he and his teams have garnered a host of other industry awards.
In his new position, Mr. Iaquinto is responsible for global marketing to drive brand awareness, build demand and pipeline, and drive revenue growth. “I’m excited to amplify the story of how the world’s commerce runs on CommerceHub,” said Mr. Iaquinto. “Now more than ever, businesses are faced with driving ecommerce growth by reaching more suppliers and channels, expanding product selections, and increasing sales.”
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CommerceHub is one of the world’s largest commerce networks. Customers rely on CommerceHub’s software solutions to reach and convert more shoppers, expand margin, and enhance the online shopping experience through drop ship, marketplace, digital advertising, and delivery management. Backed by Insight Partners and other investors, CommerceHub has a network of over 40,000 suppliers, brands and retailers. Their network powers an average of 2.4 billion transactions a day and more than $50 billion in gross merchandise value (sales) annually.
Veteran Recruiters
With offices in San Francisco, New York, and Austin, TX, Artico is off to one of the fastest starts among boutique search firms in recent memory. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor co-founded Artico with Matt Comyns, a cybersecurity leadership expert, to lead the firm’s rapidly expanding growth executive search team. Given the billions of dollars flowing into venture capital and private equity investments these days, as well as the ever-present threat of cybersecurity breaches, the founders expect big growth acceleration ahead. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor has completed over 75 CEO searches as well as partner, principal, and other CXO level assignments.
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Ms. Chatfield-Taylor’s team focuses on executive-level search for scale-up venture capital and private equity-backed technology companies. The team has deep expertise in global enterprise software, data and consumer internet businesses. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor is deeply passionate about the importance of diversifying the industry, with a full 53 percent of her placements tracked since 2019 being underrepresented executives.
Recent Search
Artico recently assisted in the recruitment of Angela Schmidt as the new chief marketing officer of AMCS. Ms. Schmidt has spent over 20 years in various marketing leadership roles in the B2B technology space. Prior to joining AMCS, she served as VP of global marketing at Acquia, an open source digital experience company. Prior to that, Ms. Schmidt spent 16 years combined leading global marketing teams at Software AG and webMethods. She is passionate about building and empowering global marketing teams, establishing meaningful customer relationships, and creating programs that deliver measurable revenue growth.
AMCS is a global provider of integrated software and vehicle technology for the environmental, waste, recycling, and resource industries. The company helps customers reduce their operating costs, increase asset utilization, optimize margins, and improve customer service. AMCS is headquartered in Limerick, Ireland.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief; Dale M. Zupsansky, Managing Editor; and Stephen Sawicki, Managing Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
