As Chief Marketing Officer at Dedrone, Mary-Lou is on the frontline of driving business strategy, marketing, and communications. Prior to Dedrone, Smulders served as CMO at financial technology company 9th Gear Technologies as well as at crisis communication systems leader AtHoc, growing the brand and supporting their acquisition by security software and services provider BlackBerry in 2015.
During her 20+ career in enterprise software, Smulders also served as Senior Vice President of Global Applications and Services Marketing for Oracle Corporation and has advised on strategic transformation initiatives at Booz & Co. Early in her career, she was an engineer for Shell Oil and on multiple oil rigs for ExxonMobil.
