Aarzoo Kothari Named Salesforce Marketing Cloud Champion

Salesforce has named Aarzoo Kothari, of Shift Paradigm (SH/FT), a 2025 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Champion. She joins an elite group of marketing professionals—80+ worldwide—recognized for their expertise and leadership in the Salesforce ecosystem.

By Shift Paradigm

Published on 10 Feb, 2026

The Marketing Champions program honors individuals who combine deep platform knowledge with meaningful contributions to the Trailblazer Community. Aarzoo’s selection reflects five years of hands-on experience architecting Marketing Cloud solutions that drive measurable outcomes for enterprise clients, along with her ongoing commitment to mentoring fellow practitioners and leading the Chicago Salesforce Marketers Trailblazer Group.

Aarzoo currently serves as the Group Leader of the Chicago Salesforce Marketers Trailblazer Group, where she regularly hosts and leads in-person and virtual seminars focused on Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Through these sessions, she shares practical insights on campaign architecture, journey orchestration, personalization strategies, and real-world implementation challenges—helping marketers strengthen their technical and strategic capabilities.

Within Shift Paradigm, Aarzoo has become the strategic authority on Salesforce Marketing Cloud implementation and optimization. Her expertise spans campaign architecture, personalization strategies, and marketing automation that connects brands to customers through meaningful, data-driven experiences. She holds three Salesforce certifications and has helped shape engagement programs for clients across industries.

“Aarzoo’s recognition as a Marketing Cloud Champion reflects the depth of expertise she brings to every client engagement,” said Erica Sante, VP, Business Operations Strategy, Shift Paradigm. “Her ability to translate complex platform capabilities into clear business value is exactly how we help organizations maximize their Salesforce investments and achieve real marketing outcomes.”

As part of the 2025 class, Aarzoo will collaborate with Salesforce and fellow Champions to share best practices, contribute thought leadership, and continue helping marketing teams build the connected experiences that drive growth.

Written By Shift Paradigm

Shift Paradigm is a business and growth partner that helps our clients see a true reflection of their business through the lens of technology & data. Armed with data-driven insights, we work with organizations to identify & accelerate opportunities for growth, efficiency, and innovation. For over 15 years, Shift has implemented, optimized, operationalized, and transformed marketing technology ecosystems and experiences for 1000s of global B2B and B2C organizations. Our comprehensive suite of services includes technology roadmaps & assessments, omnichannel campaign strategies & execution, reporting & analytics, and go-to-market strategy playbooks. We also proudly partner with industry technology leaders, like Adobe and Salesforce, to provide the right solutions for our clients.
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