CircleCI Welcomes Blake Buisson as Chief Marketing Officer
Leading CI/CD platform scales marketing organization as AI tools come to market
SAN FRANCISCO—CircleCI, a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the appointment of Blake Buisson as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Buisson has significant experience driving product-led and enterprise motions, building strong teams, and accelerating sales pipeline. He will oversee CircleCI’s marketing organization, joining CircleCI’s executive leadership team and will report to Jim Rose, CircleCI’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
“Our goal is to make CircleCI the default platform for high-performing engineering teams to build and deliver software,” said Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI. "Blake brings an important mix of strategic and operational excellence, a deep understanding of the needs of product builders, and the proven ability to accelerate pipeline growth. I am excited to welcome him to the team.”
Jim Rose | Chief Executive Officer at CircleCI
An accomplished marketing leader, Buisson was most recently the Vice President (VP) of Product Marketing and Corporate Marketing for LinkedIn’s largest business unit, Talent Solutions. During this time he launched LinkedIn’s first AI agent, transforming the category and unlocking growth for the business. Prior to LinkedIn, Buisson held leadership roles at Google and Marketbridge.
“CircleCI is a game changer for organizations that see software delivery as a strategic advantage,” said Blake Buisson. “I’m thrilled to be joining CircleCI at a pivotal moment as AI transforms how engineering teams build and ship software with CI/CD at the center of this paradigm shift. The opportunity to help more teams accelerate AI-powered development is exciting.”
Blake Buisson | CMO at CircleCI
Buisson joins amidst AI product momentum with CircleCI leading the charge as the most powerful CI-focused server built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The platform has added many new tools to the CircleCI MCP Server over the course of weeks (with more pending), helping developers seamlessly analyze, debug, and optimize their CI pipelines. To learn more, visit: https://circleci.com/blog/circleci-mcp-server/
About CircleCI
CircleCI is a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling more than two million global users on elite engineering teams like Okta, Hinge, and Hugging Face to rapidly build, test, deploy, and monitor software they can trust. Through powerful pipeline automation, CircleCI manages limitless complexity at scale through unmatched flexibility and reliability, reducing the time from build to delivery by 3x the industry average. For more information about CircleCI, visit www.circleci.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.