Ian Howells, VP and Head of Marketing, Sage Intacct

Ian Howells has more than twenty years of marketing experience at startups and major software companies. As Sage Intacct’s VP and Head of Marketing, Ian oversaw the company’s demand generation, product marketing, partner marketing, and marketing communications strategy.

Ian previously served as the company’s VP of Market Development managing the company’s vertical market strategy. Before joining Sage Intacct, Ian led marketing at Argyle Data transitioning the company to a leading machine learning Hadoop application vendor, used by the world’s largest mobile carriers to perform fraud and revenue threat analytics.

Before that, Ian led marketing at StorSimple prior to their acquisition by Microsoft and SeeBeyond prior to their acquisition by Sun. Ian also worked in market development at Documentum, where he led their entry into financial services which became the company’s largest vertical. Ian has a Ph.D. in distributed database systems and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computing and Statistics from Cardiff University.