BlueOcean Strengthens Executive Team with Two Strategic Sales Hires

BlueOcean, the leading AI-powered brand intelligence platform, today announced the hiring of Jen Kramer and Andrew Chalmers as the respective Head of Enterprise Sales and Vice President of Sales. In these new roles added to the company’s executive leadership team, Kramer and Chalmers will oversee the expansion of BlueOcean’s sales team, work closely with the company’s engineers to launch timely new features based on customer feedback, and craft BlueOcean’s sales strategy to hit high-growth targets. 

The new hires come after the recent announcement of a $15 million Series A funding round that will support BlueOcean as it scales its platform to deliver immediate insights about brand strategies and positioning to a rapidly growing customer base.

Kramer is a veteran SaaS sales professional with 15 years of experience selling to Fortune 100 brands. She has an exceptional track record of successfully closing new deals and growing SaaS solutions within an existing customer base. Prior to joining BlueOcean, Kramer was a consistent leader on enterprise and global sales teams at UserTesting, ForeSee, and Forrester Research.

“I’m delighted to be joining BlueOcean at such an exciting time in its newest phase of growth,” said Kramer. “I’m proud to support and grow a brand that is at the forefront of artificial intelligence, marketing strategy integration, and democratizing data across enterprises.”

Chalmers brings more than a decade of experience in international business environments to BlueOcean. Previously he led growth for public companies and startups including Upwave, Campaign Monitor, Optimizely, and Google in both emerging and developed markets.

“Beyond BlueOcean’s SaaS platform, which is impressive, I was attracted to this opportunity by the vision of the company,” said Chalmers. “BlueOcean is modernizing the way marketing is done, and I look forward to playing a role in their continued growth.”

Kramer and Chalmers join BlueOcean at an important inflection point in the company’s growth trajectory. By 2024, the artificial intelligence market is expected to break the $500 billion mark—a more than 50% increase from 2021. Kramer and Chalmers will cement BlueOcean’s presence as a market leader in AI-driven brand intelligence through strategic sales initiatives optimized for rapid growth. 

“Hiring Jennifer and Andrew is a reflection of the interest we are seeing in the marketplace" said BlueOcean President and Cofounder, Liza Nebel. “Brands are increasingly looking for real-time roadmaps and data-informed strategies, and we wanted to strengthen our team with executives who understand how to connect with our audiences.”

BlueOcean is already working with companies like Microsoft, Bloomingdale’s, Alteryx, Riot Games, Juniper Networks, and more than 2,000 small businesses that represent more than $18 trillion in market value. These companies leverage BlueOcean’s algorithms for strategy recommendations based on automated analysis of their brand, which improves business outcomes at a fraction of the cost of conventional marketing intelligence methods. 

Learn more about using BlueOcean to create an always-on brand strategy for your business at blueocean.ai. 

About BlueOcean:

BlueOcean provides brand strategy as a service to deliver actionable recommendations, and always-on tracking. Using its proprietary AI-powered strategy engine, BlueOcean mines, analyzes and triangulates hundreds of data sources to arm organizations with insights into how to unlock growth relative to competitors with strategic marketing recommendations that can be acted on immediately to drive overall brand equity and health. BlueOcean was co-founded by CEO Grant McDougall, COO/President Liza Nebel, and Chief Data Scientist Matthew Gross who bring decades of experience in brand building for Chevron, AT&T, HP, Toyota, Samsung, Disney, American Express, Apple, Microsoft, and others. BlueOcean is based in San Francisco and has raised $15M in Series A funding from Insight Partners.

To learn more, go to blueocean.ai.

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