Ian Botbyl runs Product & Solution Marketing at Lightpath, building positioning and go-to-market strategy across the company's fiber & network portfolio. He's spent 12 years in B2B XaaS marketing, most recently standing up GTM at NumberOne AI and leading marketing through Qwiet AI's acquisition by Harness. Before that, he ran product marketing teams at Equinix and sales enablement at Puppet. His work turns technical infrastructure into language that a network engineer, a CFO, and a sales rep can all agree on. Outside work, he's the lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the heavy metal band Ghidorah (@ghidorahtheband). He lifts, cycles, and runs, reads when he can, and drinks more coffee than he probably should admit. He lives in East Grand Rapids MI with his wife, their two kids, and their golden retriever, Wilma.