I modernize the operating system behind marketing.

The technology, data, automation, measurement, and teams that turn strategy into scalable execution. Most recently VP, Marketing Technology and Data at Kyndryl. In market for VP and SVP roles spanning marketing technology, operations, transformation, digital growth, and practical AI adoption.

Kevin Hazard, marketing transformation, technology, and AI executive

Strategy is rarely the constraint. The operating system is.

Most marketing organizations do not have a strategy problem. They have an infrastructure problem: fragmented platforms, ungoverned data, manual handoffs, and measurement nobody in Finance quite believes. The strategy arrives on a slide and then dies in the systems underneath it.

  • CDP and data layer implemented, not evaluated
  • Lead routing automated from weeks to 24 hours
  • AI agents in production, available to every employee
  • Attribution Finance will actually defend

Bought

  • Platforms licensed, adoption unclear
  • Contact data duplicated across four systems
  • AI pilots that never left pilot
  • A roadmap deck refreshed every quarter

Built, not bought. That gap is the work I do. Over five years at Kyndryl I built the global digital marketing function from a zero-traffic IBM spin-off into an 11.9 million visit per year engine, then rebuilt the martech, data, and AI foundation underneath it: Adobe B2B CDP, a governed data layer across Marketo, SugarCRM, Demandbase, and Azure Data Lake, automated lead routing, and production AI agents in daily use. Before Kyndryl, I led worldwide marketing for IBM Cloud's $1 billion-plus public cloud portfolio.

I am comfortable in the details with engineers, architects, and analysts, and I can explain the same decision to a CFO without changing the numbers.

I'm in market for what's next.

11.9M

Annual visits

Kyndryl.com, built from launch

500K+

Contacts cut to under 250K

Marketing database rationalized

25

Martech and data org

United States, Brazil, and India

$15M

Global marketing budget

Behind IBM Cloud's $1B+ portfolio

The actual operating stack.

Platforms Kevin has deployed, governed, and operated in production at enterprise scale.

  • Adobe Experience Cloud
  • Marketo
  • Adobe B2B CDP
  • Demandbase
  • SugarCRM
  • Azure Data Lake
  • SAP Master Data Governance
  • Customer Journey Analytics
  • GA4 and tag management
  • Workfront
  • ChatGPT Enterprise
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Adobe AI
  • Jasper
  • Claude

Recent thinking.

In market for what's next.

VP and SVP roles in marketing technology, data, operations, transformation, and practical AI adoption. Houston-based, open to remote and Houston-area hybrid.