Meet the Adobe Champion Class of 2026-2027

Major congratulations to everyone selected as an Adobe Champion for 2026-2027.🎉 I feel incredibly honored to be part of such a stellar community!

My name is Raven McFarlane, and I’ve been lucky enough to be selected as a Marketo Engage Champion for a second year!🤗 I am currently located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and love sharing our infamous fried cheese curds, local breweries, and danish kringles with literally anyone and everyone (Culver’s is the very best fast-food chain in the midwest and no one can convince me of otherwise😏.)

I’m currently just a small part of an incredibly talented global marketing operations team at Bluebeam, where we help construction workers, architects, and engineers build our world more efficiently 🛠. Over the last three years, we’ve migrated from Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (oh how I miss the shorter name, Pardot) to Marketo, helped our revenue operations team migrate a 13 year old Salesforce instance to a shiny and scalable revenue engine (and therefore migrated to yet another new marketo instance 😅), and nowadays work behind the scenes to figure out how we can leverage Marketo AI and the Marketo MCP to help marketers across the Nemetschek brand family focus more on strategy and less on execution. 

My Marketo journey started back in 2015⌛ during my first marketing intership in the Netherlands. At that time, I knew close to nothing about Marketing Operations, let alone what a “Marketo” was 😂. Once I realized the sea of opportunities this emerging industry had to provide, I was quick to immerse myself into the Marketo community. I take great pride in having experienced and surived both Marketo-Sky and Marketo-Gate🤣 (IYKYK), and I’m even more proud to have met a few personal goals: I’ve passed my Expert certification exam 4 times, lead a user group, became a champ, passed my Architect exam, spoke at Adobe Summit, and most importantly: had a chance to learn from some of the most intelligent folks in MOPs.📝

Throughout my career, I’ve also had the privilige to work at a few EMEA and US agencies where I got to learn all the different ways companies across all industries leverage Marketo within their marketing stacks to help drive revenue growth. Despite the nuances that exist across these organizations, I quickly discovered there are tried and trued foundational best practices that help all businesses get the most value from Marketo.

That all said, my goal this year is to find as many ways as possible to help others learn those same foundational wins, build scalable martech systems, and if possible, even help them meet their own goals.💜

Don’t be shy! Come say hello, share what’s brought you to this wonderful Adobe community, and what you’re hoping to learn this next year. I hope to meet you soon! 

Hello from 🍁Canada!

Congratulations to my fellow Adobe Champions of 2026-2027 class! 🎉

Super excited and honored to be a part of this cohort, joining the Workfront sector! 🦁

I’m Crystal and am the marketing system admin here at Scotiabank. I’m always looking for ways to optimize, organize and automate workflows. Can’t wait to collab with this great group of individuals!

Greetings from Athens, Georgia! My name is Caroline Brown and this is my first year as a Champion. I’ve been lucky enough to use Marketo Engage for the past 15 years. My company implemented Marketo Measure 3 years ago, and it completely changed the way we discuss Marketing’s impact on our business.

When I’m not in Marketo land, you can find me watching Georgia football (Go Dawgs!) or working on a puzzle. 🤓

Congratulations to my fellow Champions. I can’t believe I get to meet and learn from all these amazingly talented people!

Congratulations to all the 2026-2027 Adobe Champions! I look forward to working with you!

My name is Ryan Moravick, one of the many AEP Champions this year, and AEP Product Owner for General Motors. I serve as a cross-functional bridge between product, engineering, and customer enablement teams to bring alignment and clarity to GM’s AEP strategic roadmap in order to drive business outcomes, and ultimately, deliver world-class customer experiences. 

I am based out of Raleigh, NC and enjoy working out, being outside, going to a local brewery, or checking out new food spots with my wife and 5 year old Great Dane, Phoebe.

I am looking forward to learning from you all and sharing my experiences in AEP.

Hello fellow Adobe Champions,

Excited to get to know and learn from all of you. I'm Ibrahim Mbithi, digital commerce professional here at MANN+HUMMEL in Germany. I've been an Adobe Commerce Champion since 2025 but has been working in digital commerce platform building and rollouts for more than 15 years. Looking forward to learn from the cross-functional, cross-product, cross-cultural communities and teams.

Congrats to all the 2026-2027 Champions! 🎉

Hello from London!

Congratulations to the whole 2026-2027 class!

I'm Jineet Vora, back as an AEM Champion for a third year. I've worked with AEM for 10+ years (since the CQ5 days), co-lead the AEM User Group London chapter, and have been a Community Advisor since 2020. Right now I'm having a lot of fun at the intersection of AEM and AI.

When I'm not in AEM-land: cycling, board games, and a bit of Xbox. 🎮 Looking forward to learning from you all.

Congrats to all the new and returning Champions across all of the products. 

I’m Christiane Rodes, a 5 time Marketo Champion, and I work as the Principal Marketo Architect and Strategist at Kaiser Permanente. 

My primary responsibilities deal with ensuring overall platform health, and enforcing overall best practices as the platform evolves. 

I’ve spent the majority of my Marketing Operations career working in heavily regulated industries -- so if you’re often wondering how to use Marketo when you have strict guidelines to follow, I’m your person. 

I recently received my master’s in business analytics, so I am always considering how to accurately report on what’s going on in Marketo. 

I look forward to learning and collaborating with everyone in the community!

Congrats to all the champions 🎉! I feel so blessed to be part of the wonderful community. I am Aurélie, I’m French leaving in the Netherlands. I work as a Marketing Operations Leader for a fintech company but have experience across various industries (SAAS, commercial real estate, education, fintech). I have been using Marketo for years but it’s my first year as a Marketo champion! 

Huge congrats to the 2026-2027 Adobe Champions! 🎉 I'm honored to be back for my 4th year.

I’m Josh Arrington. Originally from Boston, I’ve been living as a bit of a nomad for the past 12 years but I am currently based in Bangkok 🇹🇭. By day, I'm the Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Kapturall, a Marketo focused agency out of Madrid.

My Marketo journey spans 16 years. I started in the trenches as an admin, but today my passion is pushing the platform's technical limits. I spend most of my time deep in the API, building custom integrations, and heavily exploring AI, Agents, and the MCP. ⚙️🤖

I absolutely love hearing about unique MOPs scenarios and helping people architect solutions to their challenges. Please don't be shy to reach out and connect! 

Looking forward to meeting you all and building some cool stuff this year! 🚀