Sarah Kennedy Ellis

Chief Marketing Officer

Sarah Kennedy Ellis is Chief Marketing Officer at Workday, where she leads the company’s global marketing and communications organization. In this role, she is responsible for advancing Workday’s brand narrative, accelerating growth, and shaping how the company shows up for customers, partners, employees, and the market in the AI era.

Prior to joining Workday, Sarah served as Vice President of Global Marketing at Google Cloud, where she led global demand generation, growth marketing, field and industry marketing, events, marketing operations, data and analytics, and brand partnerships. During her tenure, she helped scale Google Cloud from a $12 billion business to a $99 billion run rate and played a key role in shaping go-to-market strategy for Google Cloud’s rapidly expanding enterprise AI portfolio.

Before Google, Sarah was Chief Marketing Officer for Adobe Experience Cloud, leading global marketing for Adobe’s enterprise business. She joined Adobe through its acquisition of Marketo, where she also served as Chief Marketing Officer and helped lead the company’s $4.75 billion sale to Adobe, the largest acquisition in Adobe’s history at the time.

Sarah serves on the President’s Leadership Council and the Business School Board of Directors for Baylor University. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and an MBA from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.