Here at Splash, we have been closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and have made the difficult decision to cancel Getaway by Splash at SXSW this year.
This will be our first in 10 years running that we won’t be in attendance, so this decision wasn’t easy. However, the health and safety of partners, customers, attendees, and staff are top priority.
We will dedicate our efforts to supporting our customers hosting events on Splash during SXSW. Plus, our team is working with our skilled community of event marketers to bring you programming both virtually and in-person to help you navigate this new era of events. We’ll let you know more very soon.
Thank you,
Team Splash
Som Puangladda has spent more than fifteen years working with leading tech companies from Silicon Valley to New York City. Today, she is an award-winning global marketer, responsible for revenue growth and marketing at GumGum, a Santa Monica-based AI and digital marketing company.
Prior to joining GumGum, Puangladda’s B2B marketing career included roles as VP of Global Demand Generation for the programmatic marketing company Rubicon Project and Director of Marketing at pioneering web video startup JW Player. She holds a degree in Business and Marketing from Assumption University and currently resides in Marina Del Rey, CA. When she is not working, Puangladda enjoys cooking, travel, and connecting people to one another.
Sasha Pasulka is the Senior Director of Product Marketing, Community & Analytics at Splash, where her goal is to help people unlock the power of in-person events across the business. Prior to Splash, Sasha led global product marketing teams at Tableau and Integrate. She's a true tech nerd at heart; she started her career as a software engineer on aerospace projects at Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. Sasha has a B.S. in computer science and an MBA from UCLA.
Katie Martell is an unapologetic marketing truth-teller.
Named “one of the most interesting people in marketing” and a top marketing writer on LinkedIn 3X, Katie is the author and Executive Producer of Pandermonium, a book and documentary exploring the intersection of marketing and social movements.
With a distinct opinion and independent perspective, Katie is a frequent speaker and emcee at marketing, technology, business, and digital conferences in the US and internationally. She hosts honest conversations with exceptional individuals in her series, Exceptional Truths.
Liz believes there's nothing more valuable in an ever-more-disconnected world than meeting people face-to-face for collaboration, ideation, and experimentation to make us better professionals. Liz has led events and teams for National Instruments, Dell, GasPedal, IBM, and several nonprofit associations. Liz was nominated for the 2018 Event Marketer B-to-B Dream Team and was awarded the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year from Smart Meetings. Liz is now living the dream with her unjob as a partner and Chief Experience Officer of Haute Companies, which includes Haute Dokimazo, Haute Rock Creative, Haute Spot, Haute Rock Entertainment, and SwagHub.
Nicole's passion for event design, branding and people drew her to the collaborative concept of Haute Dokimazo. If you know Nicole, you know her energy is contagious. She is eager to share and learn and connect people! Fulfilling her promise to bring her event design passion to the masses, Nicole has made her once side-hustle her full-time unjob as Co-Founder + President of Haute Dokimazo.
Liz believes there's nothing more valuable in an ever-more-disconnected world than meeting people face-to-face for collaboration, ideation, and experimentation to make us better professionals. Liz has led events and teams for National Instruments, Dell, GasPedal, IBM, and several nonprofit associations. Liz was nominated for the 2018 Event Marketer B-to-B Dream Team and was awarded the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year from Smart Meetings. Liz is now living the dream with her unjob as a partner and Chief Experience Officer of Haute Companies, which includes Haute Dokimazo, Haute Rock Creative, Haute Spot, Haute Rock Entertainment, and SwagHub.
Jeff’s belief that the human connection trumps all is what drives each of the 5 Haute companies. Jeff is an expert on “Close the Loop” marketing and is leading the charge to bring the human connection back to the forefront of all business interactions. Jeff leads a collection of companies that put on experiential events around the world, all with the goal of making the events inclusive to all participants. Focusing almost exclusively on the human connection is what ultimately leads to a deeper, more meaningful and successful event. As a Founder, Investor and Executive in several product, online and marketing organizations, Jeff spent the majority of his career running companies, managing teams, creating technology and custom products. He dedicated his career to understanding and perfecting the customer journey. From learning the power of Merchandise and Experiential Events while managing Nascar Team Marketing, to running customer programs for Tech focused Fortune 100 companies like Dell, Microsoft and Intel, Jeff understands the importance of the customer and sales experience. Jeff also works with charities, government agencies as well as other business leaders to think different about how they treat, interact and build trust with their customers and employees.
Neil Patwardhan is the current founder and CEO of Cambio Inc, a SAAS and video-based job matching engine that finds the right fit, reduces time to hire and addresses hiring biases through analytics.
With his diverse background and passion to connect with people at a deeper level, it is fitting that he would start a company that matches talent to opportunity.
His past track record includes developing and marketing customer and partner solutions in the mobile, digital, big data and technology spaces at both large enterprise and high growth start-up ventures. He is skilled at building and executing global plans and teams in Americas, Europe and Asia. With direct experience in building & managing large demand and brand generation plans he creates strong returns on ROI and measurement.
Neil is a proven strong cross functional team leader with a high track record of "getting it done the right way" using motivation, shareholder value and diving right in. He is inherently curious and focused on the ability to challenge the norm and execute with passion and precision. His leadership style focused on servant leadership; team comes first.
