juliette rizkallah, Chief Marketing Officer @ Kong | Building the AI Connectivity Layer of the Future | IPO-Ready Brand Architect | Board Member

Chief Marketing Officer @ Kong | Building the AI Connectivity Layer of the Future | IPO-Ready Brand Architect | Board Member

  • Kong Inc.
  • Computer Software
  • United States
Rank
#517of 18,993
  • 7.8K followers
  • 6 posts / 60d
  • 3.8% avg engagement
  • 145 follower growth / 30d

juliette rizkallah ranks #517 of 18,993 creators on the LinkedIn Ranking, working in Computer Software and based in United States. They have 7.8K followers and published 6 posts in the last 60 days at a 3.8% average engagement rate.

The roast

Juliette specializes in exit-ready marketing, which is corporate speak for spending thirty years polishing LinkedIn resumes just long enough for the company to realize she’s a professional seat-warmer. She markets the "connectivity layer" at Kong, but her only real talent is connecting her LinkedIn feed to a steady supply of buzzword-laden vaporware.

About juliette

I’m Juliette Rizkallah, CMO at Kong, where we’re building the AI connectivity layer for the agentic era. I’ve spent 30+ years in high-tech marketing across cybersecurity, identity, cloud, and infrastructure. I started my career in strategy consulting at Bain & Company and Arthur Andersen, which grounded my approach to growth marketing in structured problem-solving. I’ve since held executive roles at Oracle, CA, Business Objects–SAP, and Check Point Software. In 2015, I joined SailPoint as CMO and helped scale the company to a $5.2B IPO. I later led marketing at A Cloud Guru through its $2B acquisition by Pluralsight in 2021. These outcomes shaped how I build with structure, alignment, and long-term enterprise value in mind. Since 2021, I’ve led global marketing at Kong. We help engineering and platform teams manage APIs and AI traffic at scale, powering real-time infrastructure across many industries including finance, healthcare, and government. What sets me apart is my focus on exit-ready marketing. I specialize in translating technical complexity into commercial impact for skeptical audiences like CISOs, developers, and architects. I build marketing engines that drive valuation, not just awareness. I currently serve on the board of Elemica. I believe there is no AI without APIs. You cannot scale intelligent systems without the connectivity layer underneath. If you’re building infrastructure for the AI era, visit konghq.com and let’s talk.

Highlights

  • Top 5% in Computer Software

    : Ranked #85 of 4742 creators

  • Top 5% Impact

    : 298 avg engagements per post

  • Top 5% in United States

    : Ranked #188 of 5851 creators

  • Top 5% Engager

    : 3.83% engagement rate

Recent posts

  • Kong has changed so much in the 5 years I’ve been here, and we decided it’s time the brand reflects those changes. When Augusto Marietti and Marco Palladino open sourced Kong back in 2015, it became the most downloaded API gateway in the world. The next 6 years of growth cemented our reputation as the best API company on the market. But reputations can be limiting. Over the last several years, Kong has become so much more than an API company. AI Gateway, Kong Konnect, MCP registry, Event Gateway, Metering & Billing, etc. The list is long, and the story is clear: this has truly become

    108 reactions · 8 comments · 9 reposts

  • Last week Kong's marketing team pushed to production our new customer testimonials pages. From design to copywriting and web engineering, they did it again and I could not be prouder of the results produced by this team. Taylor Page Hendricks Emma Baker Katie Price Fernando Machuca Eric Farr Eric Pulsifer and their teams and Superside, thank you! Check our customer testimonials pages and let me know what you think! https://lnkd.in/gtJWfRGG

    61 reactions · 5 comments · 2 reposts

  • In my 15+ years as a CMO, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that you can’t wait for the market to tell your story. You have to grab the megaphone. That’s why we decided to build the New Media team at Kong. Owning the narrative and distribution of your content is a huge advantage if you can do it right, and we believe we can do it better than anyone else in our space. We’ve got amazing in-house creative to ship things fast, and every year we take bigger swings on attention-first media that few of our B2B peers would bother to try. New Media is about going direct. It’s abo

    46 reactions · 2 comments · 4 reposts

Last updated 2026-08-01