Ruthanne Farrell
Enterprise GTM Leader | Strategic AI & Data Platforms | Conversational, Agentic & Workflow AI | Fortune 500 Enterprise Sales
ex-GoogleI've spent my career helping enterprises turn powerful but complex platforms into real adoption and measurable business outcomes.
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My work sits at the intersection of AI, data, customer experience, and enterprise workflows, particularly at moments when the technology is ahead of the go-to-market motion and organizations need clarity, trust, and execution to move forward. Across early-stage startups and global technology companies (Google Cloud, Salesforce, Microsoft), I've led enterprise sales and GTM efforts focused on conversational AI, generative and agentic systems, voice and multimodal experiences, data platforms, knowledge automation, and workflow orchestration. I'm known for breaking into complex Fortune 500 accounts, running deep technical and business discovery, and translating platforms into clear use cases, ROI, and momentum that drives mutually successful customers My strength is helping organizations understand the transformational value of AI and how to operationalize it by embedding intelligence into real processes across CX, marketing, operations, and decision-making environments. My background blends hands-on technical fluency with executive-level selling, enabling me to engage credibly with engineers, architects, product leaders, and C-suite stakeholders alike. I bring cross-industry solution depth and enterprise adoption across Financial Services, Retail & CPG, Manufacturing, Energy, Travel & Hospitality, and Media & Entertainment, working closely with product, engineering, and services teams to shape narratives, guide pilots, and scale adoption in highly regulated and complex environments. I'm most energized by roles where I can help define enterprise GTM, land strategic customers, and shape how AI platforms are brought to market.
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- WRITERJOB
- Strategic Account Executive7M
Strategic Account Executive
Writer
- PURENODALJOB
- Founding Dir, Enterprise S…1Y 7M
Founding Director, Enterprise Sales (AI Infrastructure Startup)
PureNodal
Founding GTM leader for an early-stage AI infrastructure platform, responsible for taking a technically sophisticated product from concept to first enterprise adoption. Built the go-to-market narrative, outbound motion, pipeline development, and secured initial enterprise pilots for high-scale AI inference, reducing latency/cost for media and entertainment clients. Worked closely with engineering and platform teams to translate complex AI inference, distributed compute, and performance requirements into clear business use cases and commercial deals, laying the foundation for repeatable enterprise growth.
- GOOGLEJOB
- Enterprise Account Executi…4Y 2M
Enterprise Account Executive (AI, Data & Cloud Platforms)
Google
Led net new enterprise revenue growth of Google Cloud's AI, data, and platform services across Fortune 500 organizations at pivotal moments of digital and AI transformation. Partnered with executive, digital, and technical leaders to move customers from experimentation to real-world adoption of Generative AI and RAG-based architectures via Vertex AI. Known for identifying high value use cases and shaping early AI narratives focused on content intelligence, personalization, customer experience, knowledge automation, and workflow optimization. Translated technical platform opportunity into measurable business outcomes across multiple industries. Built trust at the executive level while na…
- SALESFORCEJOB
- Strategic Enterprise Accou…2Y 1M
Strategic Enterprise Account Executive (CX, Digital & Marketing Platforms)
Salesforce
Drove large-scale customer experience and digital engagement transformation across enterprise and Aerospace & Defense federal system integrators and large manufacturers. Helped CMOs, CX leaders, and operations teams connect data, AI, and omnichannel engagement into cohesive customer journeys. Played key role in translating platform capabilities into executive-ready narratives, ROI frameworks, and adoption strategies, bridging marketing, service, and analytics to unlock enterprise-wide value.
- MICROSOFTJOB
- Enterprise Sales & GTM Lea…12Y 2M
Enterprise Sales & GTM Leader (Cloud, Collaboration & Communications)
Microsoft
Partnered with Fortune 100 enterprises to modernize how they communicate, collaborate and operate, through early cloud adoption and first workload migrations across enterprise productivity, security, and unified communications. North American field lead for Microsoft's first foray into enterprise voice (Skype for Business/Teams), displacing legacy and competitive platforms with cloud-scale communication. Led the enterprise GTM for customers and partners, including strategy, value narrative, differentiators, field enablement, customer evangelism and partner readiness. Partnered with product to shape strategy, enterprise migration frameworks, and ROI-driven adoption models. Recognized for…
- INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCEJOB
- Early GTM & Enterprise Sal…8Y
Early GTM & Enterprise Sales Leader
Interactive Intelligence
Early-stage leader at a category-defining contact center and unified communications startup, helping build the enterprise GTM motion from the ground up. Developed strategy and narrative across sales, professional services, and partner ecosystems to land strategic customers and scale delivery. Owned customer engagement and delivery for launching new products, shaping enterprise deployments, and building trust with large, complex organizations, contributing to the company's growth through IPO.
- RSM US LLPJOB
- Lead Technical Consultant3Y 1M
Lead Technical Consultant
RSM US LLP
Led enterprise consulting engagements focused on complex systems, business process design, and technology-driven transformation for large organizations. Built and delivered services offerings that bridged technical execution with business outcomes.
- INTEL CORPORATIONJOB
- Sales Eng - Dialogic Corpo…3Y 6M
Sales Engineer - Dialogic Corporation
Intel Corporation
Early career foundation in enterprise systems and voice technology, working with service bureaus and large telcos to design and deploy complex telephony and communications solutions at scale.
- Job: Writer — Strategic Account Executive · 2026-03 – present · 5 mo
- Job: PureNodal — Founding Director, Enterprise Sales (AI Infrastructure Startup) · 2024-08 – 2026-03 · 1y 7mo — Founding GTM leader for an early-stage AI infrastructure platform, responsible for taking a technically sophisticated product from concept to first enterprise adoption. Built the go-to-market narrative, outbound motion, pipeline development, and secured initial enterprise pilots for high-scale AI inference, reducing latency/cost for media and entertainment clients. Worked closely with engineering and platform teams to translate complex AI inference, distributed compute, and performance requirements into clear business use cases and commercial deals, laying the foundation for repeatable enterprise growth.
- Job: Google — Enterprise Account Executive (AI, Data & Cloud Platforms) · 2020-03 – 2024-05 · 4y 2mo — Led net new enterprise revenue growth of Google Cloud's AI, data, and platform services across Fortune 500 organizations at pivotal moments of digital and AI transformation. Partnered with executive, digital, and technical leaders to move customers from experimentation to real-world adoption of Generative AI and RAG-based architectures via Vertex AI. Known for identifying high value use cases and shaping early AI narratives focused on content intelligence, personalization, customer experience, knowledge automation, and workflow optimization. Translated technical platform opportunity into measurable business outcomes across multiple industries. Built trust at the executive level while na…
- Job: Salesforce — Strategic Enterprise Account Executive (CX, Digital & Marketing Platforms) · 2018-02 – 2020-03 · 2y 1mo — Drove large-scale customer experience and digital engagement transformation across enterprise and Aerospace & Defense federal system integrators and large manufacturers. Helped CMOs, CX leaders, and operations teams connect data, AI, and omnichannel engagement into cohesive customer journeys. Played key role in translating platform capabilities into executive-ready narratives, ROI frameworks, and adoption strategies, bridging marketing, service, and analytics to unlock enterprise-wide value.
- Job: Microsoft — Enterprise Sales & GTM Leader (Cloud, Collaboration & Communications) · 2005-09 – 2017-11 · 12y 2mo — Partnered with Fortune 100 enterprises to modernize how they communicate, collaborate and operate, through early cloud adoption and first workload migrations across enterprise productivity, security, and unified communications. North American field lead for Microsoft's first foray into enterprise voice (Skype for Business/Teams), displacing legacy and competitive platforms with cloud-scale communication. Led the enterprise GTM for customers and partners, including strategy, value narrative, differentiators, field enablement, customer evangelism and partner readiness. Partnered with product to shape strategy, enterprise migration frameworks, and ROI-driven adoption models. Recognized for…
- Job: Interactive Intelligence — Early GTM & Enterprise Sales Leader · 1997-09 – 2005-09 · 8y — Early-stage leader at a category-defining contact center and unified communications startup, helping build the enterprise GTM motion from the ground up. Developed strategy and narrative across sales, professional services, and partner ecosystems to land strategic customers and scale delivery. Owned customer engagement and delivery for launching new products, shaping enterprise deployments, and building trust with large, complex organizations, contributing to the company's growth through IPO.
- Job: RSM US LLP — Lead Technical Consultant · 1994-08 – 1997-09 · 3y 1mo — Led enterprise consulting engagements focused on complex systems, business process design, and technology-driven transformation for large organizations. Built and delivered services offerings that bridged technical execution with business outcomes.
- Job: Intel Corporation — Sales Engineer - Dialogic Corporation · 1991-02 – 1994-08 · 3y 6mo — Early career foundation in enterprise systems and voice technology, working with service bureaus and large telcos to design and deploy complex telephony and communications solutions at scale.
- School: The Johns Hopkins University — Master of Science (MS), Telecommunication and Information Systems
- School: University of Massachusetts, Amherst — Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
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