Natasha Woods has built strong campaigns and programs with media and analyst relations as their cornerstones. Her close and lasting relationships with top tier business, technology and dev-focused media have garnered numerous articles including WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, ZDnet, Software Engineering Daily, etc. Natasha is also a Certified Industry Analyst Relations Professional (CIARP) and has created close relationships with influential analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC and Redmonk, among others. Natasha specializes in Cloud Native with experience in DevOps, big data, IoT, and enterprise IT. Natasha previously lead integrated communications for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), helped to launch the Continuous Delivery Foundation and was the communications lead for Kubernetes 1.9, 1.10, 1.14 releases.

Previously, Natasha worked for a wide-range of agencies where clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies including Verisign, Symantec, American Express, 3M, Target, Motorola, and Verizon Enterprise Solutions to innovative start-ups including BlueData, Interana, Reflektion, Striim, SnapLogic, MariaDB and MemSQL. Natasha's work ranged from launching startups out of stealth mode, funding announcements, quarterly earnings announcements and the communications lead on Gigamon's IPO. Natasha started her career at Comcast.