#849: Siteimprove CEO Nayaki Nayyar on what it means to take a holistic view of digital experience
The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX
The Agile Brand
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the rush to implement AI across the customer experience, are we at risk of creating more digital barriers than we're breaking down?
Agility requires a holistic view of the entire digital experience. It's the ability to see not just how individual channels are performing, but how they work together to serve every potential customer, inclusively and intelligently.
Today, we're going to talk about what it takes to build that holistic view. We'll explore how brands can unify their performance analytics to move beyond traditional SEO, the dual role of AI in both creating personalized content and ensuring it’s accessible, and why inclusivity is becoming one of the most powerful levers for brand growth.
To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Nayaki Nayyar, CEO at Siteimprove.
About Nayaki Nayyar
Nayaki Nayyar is an accomplished technology executive with a proven track record of driving growth, innovation, and market leadership in enterprise SaaS for over 25 years. As the CEO of Siteimprove, she spearheads the company’s vision and strategy, accelerating its market leadership in Agentic Content Intelligence powered by Siteimprove.ai platform.
In her prior role as the CEO of Securonix, she guided the company’s strategic shift into AI with the launch of Securonix EON, an AI-powered cyber-security platform. Under her leadership, Securonix secured its position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM for five consecutive years, driving significant growth and product innovation to address evolving global cybersecurity threats.
Nayaki brings deep expertise in scaling businesses organically and through strategic acquisitions. As President and Chief Product Officer at Ivanti, she established the company’s cybersecurity and endpoint management strategy, growing revenue from $500M to $1.2B and doubling the total addressable market from $30B to $60B in just two years. She also played a pivotal role in launching the Ivanti Neurons Platform and driving expansion through acquisitions. As BMC Software’s President of Digital Service and Operations Management, Nayaki led its transformation into AI-driven enterprise solutions with the BMC Helix suite, a strategic evolution that contributed to BMC’s $8.2B exit in 2018.
Nayaki serves on the boards of TD Synnex and Corteva Agriscience and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. She holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston. Recognized among the "Top Women in Technology in the U.S." by Technology Magazine in 2022, she is a respected leader shaping the future of enterprise technology in the AI era.
Nayaki Nayyar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nayakinayyar/
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| 0:00.0 | In the rush to implement AI across the customer experience, are we at risk of creating more |
| 0:04.7 | digital barriers than we're breaking down? Agility requires a holistic view of the entire digital |
| 0:10.2 | experience. It's the ability to see not just how individual channels are performing, but how |
| 0:15.3 | they work together to serve every potential customer, inclusively and intelligently. Today we're going to talk about what it takes to build that holistic view. |
| 0:24.3 | We're going to explore how brands can unify their performance analytics to move beyond traditional |
| 0:28.5 | SEO, the dual role of AI in both creating personalized content and ensuring it's accessible, |
| 0:35.3 | and why inclusivity is becoming one of the most powerful levers for brand growth. Welcome to Season 8 of the Agile Brand podcast. This season, we're going all in on expert mode Martec, AI, and customer experience, talking with the people and platforms behind the brands you know and love. Again, I'm your host Greg Kilstrom, and I |
| 0:54.7 | help Fortune 1000 companies make sense of MARTEC, AI, and marketing ops. Hit subscribe or follow |
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| 1:16.8 | Now let's dive in. |
| 1:19.8 | Tell me discuss this topic. |
| 1:21.5 | I'd like to welcome Nayaki Nayar, CEO at Site Improve. |
| 1:25.3 | Nayaki, welcome to the show. |
| 1:27.5 | Thank you, Greg. |
| 1:28.6 | Glad to be on the show and look forward to our conversation today. |
| 1:31.8 | Appreciate it. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:33.3 | Definitely looking forward to this. |
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