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About the Author Mary-Lou Smulders
was ap- pointed Chief Marketing Of- ficer ( CMO ) for in Dedrone in 2020 , having first served as its strategic advisor
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Before Dedrone ,
Smulders served as CMO at financial tech- nology company 9th Gear Tech- nologies and crisis commu-
nication systems leader for AtHoc , growing the brand and supporting their acquisition by security software and services pro- vider BlackBerry in 2015 .
During her twenty- plus-year career in enterprise software , Smulders also served as Senior Vice President of Global Applications and Services Marketing for Oracle Corpora- tion and has advised on strate- gic transformation initiatives at Booz & Company
. Early in her career , she was an engineer on multiple oil rigs for ExxonMo- bil and Shell Oil .
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