Ben Pippenger — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-Founder of Zylo, an AI-powered SaaS spend intelligence platform managing over $260B in IT spend for enterprise customers including OpenAI, Adobe, Walmart, Netflix, and Atlassian.
Co-founded Zylo in 2016, backed by Bessemer, Menlo, and Salesforce Ventures.
Helped scale Zylo into a two-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader.
Served as Senior Director, Product Management at Salesforce.
Joined ExactTarget as employee ~100, growing with the company through IPO and a $2.5B acquisition by Salesforce.

Biography

Ben Pippenger is a software executive and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building B2B SaaS products across the complete startup-to-enterprise lifecycle. He has built and led product, engineering, and partnership teams, developing hands-on expertise across functions that drive a SaaS business forward.

Pippenger's career includes two hypergrowth stories: ExactTarget and Zylo. He joined ExactTarget as employee ~100 and grew with the company through its IPO and a $2.