Meet the Adobe Champion Class of 2026-2027

Congrats to all the 2026-2027 Marketo Engage Champions! My name is Britney and this is my 6th year in a row as a Champion 😁. I’ve been working in Marketo for 10 years now and am currently the product owner for the largest Marketo instance in the world 🤓. 

Looking forward to learning and connecting with all the Champs this year. 

Hi everyone! Thrilled to be part of the Adobe Marketo Champion Class of 2026–2027! And Congrats everyone!

I’m Melina Chan, a 3x Adobe Marketo Engage Champion, Leader of the Singapore Marketo User Group, and digital marketing leader based in Sunny 🇸🇬 Singapore. I specialize in enterprise MarTech architecture, multi-channel orchestration, and behavioral lifecycle strategy.

Outside of work, I spend time personal coaching and mentoring others, brewing Jun Tea, and experimenting with new flavor infusions. Looking forward to connecting and collaborating with this incredible community!

Huge congratulations to all the new and returning Adobe Champions! 👏🏻

Thrilled to be part of this cohort as a first-time Workfront Champion. I am Srinija Nandivada, based in Hyderabad, India 🇮🇳.

Excited for the journey ahead and looking forward to collaborating and learning with everyone!

Hi, everyone! I’m Carol Majewski, a 2x Adobe Workfront Champion, and I’m excited to be back for another year of learning, sharing, and connecting with this amazing community!

I’ve spent much of my career helping teams improve the way they plan, manage, and deliver work. I’ve been working with Workfront for about eight years and currently help administer a global Workfront environment supporting thousands of users across hundreds of teams.

I’m interested in Workfront governance, adoption, and finding practical ways to make systems work better for the people using them. I love talking about the balance between creating scalable processes and giving teams enough flexibility to get their work done — and I’m always interested in hearing how others are approaching that balance.

Outside of Workfront, I’m based in Santa Cruz County, just over the hill from Adobe HQ, where I enjoy spending time with my family and walking our dogs on the beach. 🐕

I’m looking forward to reconnecting with familiar faces, meeting new people, and continuing to learn from all of you this year!

Hello Marketo Engage Community!

I’m Ajay Sarpal, and I’m thrilled to be part of the Adobe Marketo Engage Champion class for my 8th consecutive year! Over the years, this incredible community and ecosystem have been a major part of my journey in marketing operations, automation strategy, and digital transformation. Every year brings fresh architectural challenges and new opportunities to innovate, and I’m as passionate today about driving impact through Marketo as I was when I first started.

Huge congratulations to all my fellow 2026 Champions! It’s a true privilege to stand alongside such a talented, brilliant group of practitioners globally. I’m always eager to give back, whether that’s by solving complex technical workflows, mentoring emerging MOPs talent, or sharing best practices on data integrity and system integrations. Feel free to connect with me here on the community or on LinkedIn, and let me know if there’s a tricky Marketo puzzle I can help you solve!

Hey Everyone!

It’s an honour to be selected again as an Analytics Champion (this will be my 7th year).

I work for Torstar in Canada. We are a newspaper company with our flagship property the Toronto Star, 6 Regional Dailies and 21 Community Websites, along with some other Specialties and Corporate Sites.

I’ve been working with Analytics since the “old days” of Omniture / Site Catalyst (2007). Back then, I was the sole web developer in a team of 1.5 (the .5 being my manager who also managed Direct Mailing). About a year after I started there, the parent company decided to combine all the development teams into one, so I was one of the few that made the cut… and at that time I started working with some dedicated marketing people and learning from them, but also providing a balance for “the site doesn’t work like that, let’s find a solution to get the data you need”.

In 2010, I was moved from Development to QA, where I continued to work with Analytics now from a testing focus… and again working closely with Developers and the Marketing folks…  Around 2011, the company decided not to renew the contract for the Marketer, and gave all the Analytics in the Metroland side of the org to me (at that time, about 200 websites… thankfully, most of them were small and didn’t need a lot of effort, and a large portion of them were on shared code….).

For the next many years, I was half QA and half Analytics. Until in 2017, the Metroland side merged with the Toronto Star side… I was then made full Analytics, and took over GA and Parse.ly Analytics (and later we switched from Parse.ly to Marfeel….). I also support the implementation of all the pixel trackers…  

I basically handle the entire Analytics lifecycle, from writing the requirements and keeping the documentation up to date, to working with Developers to understand and develop their side, to developing the bulk of the analytics in launch, or updating Processing Rules for our Mobile Apps, to building reports and teaching people how to read, make and modify their own reports (usually they do the simple, I do the complex), to analyzing what is and isn’t working and tweaking the tracking until we are happy, and also being the admin for the various systems.

I look forward to working with everyone, and hopefully be able to collaborate with the different Champ groups this year.

Congratulations to all the new and returning Adobe Champions! 🎉

I'm Gautham Madala, and I'm thrilled to join this cohort as a first-time AEP + Apps Champion. Originally from Bangalore, India, I've spent the last three years at NRG Energy as a CJA & AEP Architect, building on 7+ years of experience in digital infrastructure and Martech engineering across the airline, mortgage, and entertainment industries.

Day to day, I work deep in Adobe CJA and its APIs, build custom integrations, and explore how AI, agents, and MCP can push the platform further.

I'm happy to chat about: Adobe Analytics to CJA migration, AEP<>CJA APIs, CJA setup and admin

I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and hearing about all the great things you're building!