SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 24, 2014) - BrightTALK, the powerful marketing platform accelerating business and professional growth through videos and webinars, is pleased to announce the appointment of Samantha Loveland to its Board of Advisors. 

Loveland brings a wealth of experience in shaping customer success programs and building rapidly scaling companies to BrightTALK. After seven years at Deloitte, she moved to Salesforce.com and worked on the development of customer success for large enterprise like Cisco. Then she did it again at Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft, where she is now leading customer engagement worldwide. 

"We couldn't be more excited to work with Sam in building a world-class customer success organization at BrightTALK," said BrightTALK CEO Paul Heald. "Sam has an undeniable track record of success and will be working closely with our team to take our customer success organization to the next level. Her experiences in rapidly growing businesses will also be invaluable as we continue to expand."

BrightTALK helps marketers create compelling content, reach new audiences and measure their contribution to revenue growth. With thousands of videos and webinars produced on BrightTALK, the platform fuels a vibrant exchange of knowledge that attracts millions of professionals looking for information to advance their careers, while helping companies grow in their markets. 

"We want every client to experience revenue growth through BrightTALK," said Heald. "As we keep bringing a growing number of clients on board, it is important to us that every customer fully leverages the BrightTALK platform to connect their marketing efforts with increased revenue."

"I am delighted to be joining the BrightTALK advisory board and am looking forward to working with the team to develop a world class customer engagement organization," said Loveland. "Helping marketers deliver revenue growth is an exciting proposition that really can move businesses forward and I'm excited to be a part of it."