ServiceNow Series E112: Ryan Smith, Global Director Servicenow and Strategic Partnerships & Gene Eun, Director of Product Marketing at OwnBackup 

Today's guest is Ryan Smith, Global Director ServiceNow and Strategic Partnerships & Gene Eun, Director of Product Marketing at OwnBackup. Founded in 2015, OwnBackup is a leading SaaS data protection platform for some of the largest SaaS ecosystems in the world, including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and ServiceNow. Through capabilities like data security, backup and recovery, archiving, and sandbox seeding, they empower organizations worldwide to manage and protect the mission-critical data that drives their business.

Ryan is experienced in building relationships and evangelizing emerging brands and technologies. Respected for his vision, integrity and excellence, he has been successful in starting, marketing, and building diverse businesses and Go-to-market plans. Gene is a dynamic product strategist with almost 20 years in enterprise software product management and marketing. He is a great leader, storyteller, communicator, writer and team player with a proven track record of successfully developing, launching, and marketing enterprise software solutions.

In this episode, Ryan and Gene discuss:

How they came to join OwnBackup,

OwnBackup’s Shared Responsibility model,

Examples of the problems they are solving for customers,

Industries that benefit most from their data back-up and recovery solution,

The importance of company culture,

Ryan’s advice for following your passion