Susan is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Prior to joining the Council, Susan was Chief Marketing Officer at Voxant, where she created the strategy and managed the team which built an online news syndication network of over 30,000 web publishers and bloggers, representing more than 14 million monthly unique visitors. To do this, she employed online and new media techniques from search to paid media to viral advertising, blogging and social media. In addition, she lead the branding, corporate marketing, product marketing, customer service and sales enablement teams.
Before joining Voxant, Susan was President at SalesTraction, where she helped technology companies - from startups to giants - grow revenue more aggressively and predictably. Her clients at SalesTraction included SAP, SuccessFactors, Unisys, SPSS, and Synygy. Before SalesTraction, Susan served in executive positions at Paragren Technologies, Oracle Corporation, and IRI Software.
Kearney is a member of The CMO Club and the Marketing Executives’ Networking Group, and is on the Board of Directors of the Women in Technology Education Foundation. In her spare time, she serves on the School Board in the City of Falls Church.
Susan graduated with a B.A. in Russian Studies and Economics from the University of Virginia and holds an M.B.A. in Strategic Management from Pace University. Presently, she is pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Organization Development at Georgetown University.
