James Riseman

James Riseman has worked in various roles since 2000. James started at Nuance as Senior Product Manager & Product Marketing, specializing in product management, marketing and business development for speech and voice security applications. In 2007, they founded and became President of Storytailor, a personal video studio and Web hosting business. James then co-founded and became an advisor for RealtyJoin, a social networking site for the real estate industry. In 2010, they joined Cisco Systems as Senior Manager, Product Management & Product Marketing, leading the Go-to-Market and launch for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server. James then moved to Rocket Fuel Inc. as Principal Product Marketing Manager, followed by New Relic, Inc. as Director of Product Marketing. In 2018, they became a Limited Partner at Mighty Capital, and in 2021 they joined Treasure Data as Director of Product Marketing. Currently, they are Head of Product Marketing at SaaS Labs, a Sequoia-backed, Series B company focused on communication- and AI-based solutions for Sales and Support agents in SMB and mid-market companies.

James Riseman completed a dual degree in Economics, Politics, and Russian from the University of Michigan. In 2019, they completed a Data Science Immersive program at Galvanize Inc. which focused on Data Science and Machine Learning. In 2018, they obtained a certification in Using Python to Access Web Data from Coursera Course Certificates. James is also in the process of obtaining a Python Data Structures certification from Coursera Course Certificates.