Bio

Colby Proffitt is the Chief Marketing Officer at Seekr, where he leads the go-to-market organization bringing explainable, auditable AI to enterprise and government customers. A category-builder and operator with a track record of recognized work — including 2024 Startup CMO of the Year — he has spent his career inside the markets where the stakes are highest and the buyers least forgiving: cybersecurity, defense tech, public safety, critical infrastructure, and commercial enterprise. He believes the companies that win in those markets aren’t the ones with the loudest messaging or the biggest pipeline targets, but the ones that understand how decisions actually get made — the institutional incentives, the competing stakeholders, the risk tolerances no playbook captures — and can translate technically dense products into a story that lands with a federal program manager, a CISO, a board, and an industry analyst alike. At Seekr, that conviction shapes everything from how the brand shows up in market to how the team builds the demand engine behind it.