
Mark Szelenyi
Product Leader | Enterprise SaaS | Mentor | Advisor
Bio
Specialties: SaaS, Go-to-Market Strategy, Product Management, Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Packaging, Pricing Strategies, Agile Development, Enterprise, In-direct Channels, and SMB. Mark Szelenyi is a performance-driven Senior Executive with more than 30 years of success within the technology industry across the enterprise software, networking, and digital marketing sectors. Leveraging extensive experience in driving the strategic growth of technology product lines, he is a valuable asset for early stage growth companies working on go-to-market-strategy and scalability. His broad areas of expertise include B2B, software development, SaaS, product management, digital marketing, agile development, pricing, and sales enablement. Mark was most recently Vice President of Product Management for ON24, where he’s worked since 2008 leading the effort to understand and incorporate the needs of ON24 customers into new and existing products. He was responsible for creating a go-to-market strategy that enabled the company to pivot from being a managed service provider for a premium market segment toward a SaaS subscription business model with a broader target persona. This has resulted in triple digit subscription revenue growth and a successful IPO in early 2021. Previous to ON24, Mark held leadership roles at Jigsaw, Kontiki, Cisco, Netscape, and Lotus Development where he consistently applied growth product strategies to build, launch, and grow successful product lines. Mark holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. He has completed professional management training courses in Situational Leadership and Managing Through Transition, helping enable him to maintain his status as one of Silicon Valley’s most agile product executives.
Expertise
Go to market strategy
I've done GTM Strategy work from several different roles where I have contributed messaging and positioning content, launch plans and strategies, and training and enablement plans for internal and external audiences.
Product management
I have led product management teams and led cross functional product teams as a product owner through all stages of the SaaS product lifecycle, from early concepts and user testing to market adoption and regular releases.
Product market fit
At ON24, I led the product management team in building the company's flagship SaaS product from the ground up. We achieved a complete pivot away from a service-heavy, systems integrator business model and drove triple digit subscription revenue growth for many quarters leading to a successful IPO in 2021.
Toolkit
JIRA
15 years of experienceWent through a complete adoption of Agile development processes with a green engineering team and JIRA. I know how to use it from the Product Owner perspective to get what I need.
Trello
11 years of experienceI find Trello to be very useful for a personal view of market feedback, pending priorities, breakdowns of specific projects, etc. It can probably do a lot more.
Industries
Enterprise Applications
Product management, product marketing, and product design for enterprise applications, infrastructure and SaaS. Agile expert, product roadmaps, team leadership, product-led growth