Meet the Adobe Champion Class of 2026-2027

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Congratulations to everyone selected as AEM Champions for the Adobe Champion Class of 2026–2027! 🎉👏 Well deserved!

Congratulations to everyone selected as Adobe Commerce Champions for the Adobe Champion Class of 2026–2027! 🎉👏 Well deserved!

Congratulations to all our 2026-2027 Adobe Champions! 

Since we’re introducing ourselves, my name is Brad Bedford and I support the Adobe Analytics & Adobe Marketo Engage Champion Programs. 

I started with Marketo in 2017 and have been supporting the Adobe Champion Program since 2023. I’ve had the pleasure of supporting Adobe Advocates step up to the mic or keyboard as we share out best practices, tips & tricks and general good vibes around the Adobe Community. 

I’m super excited to see all the amazing content that Adobe Champions will create this year and post on Experience League! 

Hi everyone. Congrats to all Champions! Looking forward to meeting/talking to most of you.

Continuing on the topic of introducing ourselves… My name is Phani Chidella and I’m an Application Developer supporting Adobe Analytics (and CJA) implementations as part of IBM Consulting. My favourite way to expore the data has been the flow and fall out visualizations. Looking foraward to sharing and learning from all of you!

Congratulations everyone! 🎉 Adobe Champion Class of 2026-2027 we got our digital lightsabers! 🎉
Excited to be part of the group this year and can’t wait to meet you all in person and virtually! 

Many congratulations to everyone for being selected as Adobe champions. 🎉 Well deserved!

Let me introduced myself. I’m Sant Singh Rathaur, and super excited to be part of this incredibly talented group again this year. This is my second year as an Adobe Marketo Engage Champion, and I’m really looking forward to another year of learning, sharing, and connecting with the community.

I’m based in the Pink City, Jaipur, India, and I work at Navitas, a leading international education company where I’ve been for over a decade now.

In my role, I’m the caretaker/architect of Adobe Marketo Engage , Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and HubSpot. And yes, you read that right, we use all three platforms across different business units, and somehow I’m lucky enough to be involved with all of them! 

That’s probably the most challenging, but also the most exciting, part of my work. It keeps me on my toes and gives me a very good reason to continuously learn and stay updated across all three platforms.

Outside of work, I’m a student of spirituality. You’ll usually find me spending my free time with books, in meditation halls, travelling, or somewhere in the mountains. 

Really looking forward to getting to know each one of you, learning from your experiences, and hopefully sharing a few things from mine as well.

Thanks,
Sant

Congratulations to everyone who are selected as an Adobe Champion!

I’m Balkar Singh Rao, working on Adobe Marketo Engage since 2013. I worked for many Marketo customers and trained various teams for enabling Marketo delivery services at Grazitti Interactive for a decade (2013-2023). Since 2023, I am working at HERE Technologies, in marketing operations, working with sales, compliance and engineering across projects which overlap Marketo database, lead flow, scoring, special campaigns, Marketo integrations, workflow automations, analytics - eventually aimed at improving marketing performance.

Keen to learn interesting new features like Marketo Coworker (Marketo AI) and use them for making an impact. Looking forward to more engagement, learning and evolution this year.

Congratulations to all the new and returning Champions.

I’m Martin from Swindon in the UK.  I’ve been an AEM Champion since the inaugral class in 2022 and working with AEM for over 10 years now.  Theres always something new to learn and with the new age of AI upon us things are changing fast so it’s wonderful to have a community of fellow champions who are always willing to help, guide and support.

Really looking forward to meeting and getting to know the new champions, collaborating with the product teams and hopefully getting some more “cross product” sessions going.

Hello from the land of popcorn and ticket stubs! 🍿

I'm Amber Russo, a '26-'27 Adobe Workfront Champion and the sole System Admin at Cinemark Theatres HQ.

Like many of you, I wear a lot of hats: administrator, process designer, trainer, report builder, occasional detective, and part-time translator between "what the business wants" and "what the system can actually do."

I'm incredibly excited to join this Champion cohort and connect with other Workfront practitioners who are just as passionate about improving the way work gets done. 

I look forward to learning from this community, sharing a few field notes from life as a team of one, and hopefully contributing something useful along the way.