Lilia Shirman is the founder and CEO of The Shirman Group. She is an experienced operating executive and CMO, go-to-market thought leader, board director, and investor who drives top line growth and corporate value creation for B2B companies. Lilia has shaped strategies that generated hundreds of millions in revenue for industry leaders including VMware, EMC, Amazon, Oracle, and Symantec, and MongoDB. Lilia served as the turnaround CMO at MariaDB, led strategic alliances at BEA Systems, and managed business process and quality systems development at Applied Materials.

Lilia is also a Venture Partner at West Coast Equity Partners, a growth equity firm focused on hyper-growth tech companies, and serves as Board Director at StyleBox.  She is the author of 42 Rules for Growing Enterprise Revenue. A sought-after speaker on maximizing customer relevance, she advises the CEOs and Boards of fast-growth ventures and is a mentor at F50 Elevate Accelerator and Stanford University’s Global Entrepreneurial Marketing Program.