Tanya is CMO at Forgepoint.
Her mandate is to elevate the Forgepoint brand and portfolio globally, while cultivating the firm’s trusted community of entrepreneurs, experts, and executives for meaningful connections, conversations, and collaboration.
Tanya is a brand and business builder with extensive experience in startups, venture capital, and corporate innovation across industries. She has built and brought to market several startups and brands from scratch to launch, profitability and exit, and worked with companies large and small to develop new business opportunities that open up markets and accelerate growth. Prior to Forgepoint, she led market development for M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund, helping the firm expand into Europe and India, co-host two female founders competitions resulting in $10M invested in six early stage enterprise and deeptech startups, and build out M12’s Microsoft internal and external engagement programs with specific venture ecosystems and stakeholders. Prior to M12, Tanya served as VP of Marketing at tech-enabled reproductive health leader Spring Fertility, which she helped launch in 2016, and was a Partner at Stacked Venture Builder which acquired a social commerce startup she helped found. She was also a Marketing Director at Yammer (acq. Microsoft), and Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Thinkwell Group (acq. TAIT).
Tanya holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Yale. When not in the office, Tanya enjoys hiking, snowboarding, good food, world travel, and most of all- spoiling her niece and nephew.
