Vanessa Royle Founder & Former CEO | Ex-Cloudflare Comms Leader | Building & Scaling High-Growth Companies
Vanessa Royle Founder & Former CEO | Ex-Cloudflare Comms Leader | Building & Scaling High-Growth Companies
Career
Vanessa Royle holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from University of California - Berkeley.
TCCo-founder & CEO at Tilden Cocktails from 2021-07 to Present in Santa Barbara, CAFounded and scaled an award-winning premium non-alcoholic cocktail brand distributed across 450+ hospitality venues nationwide. Raised $2.2M from investors and led company strategy across product development, pricing, and go-to-market execution.
Director of Communications at Cloudflare from 2016-05 to 2020-08 in San Francisco, CAArchitected and executed communications strategy for Cloudflare’s 2019 NYSE IPO, conducting 21 media briefings (a NYSE record) and contributing to a 20% pop in stock price on opening day. Served as primary communications strategist to the CEO, COO, General Counsel, CISO, and CTO,WEAccount Executive, Technology at Waggener Edstrom Communications from 2013-05 to 2016-05 in San Francisco, CAPromoted each year; managed an average of five client accounts simultaneously. Supported global strategy and content for clients including Microsoft, GameStop, Siemens PLM, and Brightcove; generated 4B media impressions for GameStop’s 2015 holiday campaign.