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title: "Mark Manning - Customer Advocacy | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/authors/mark-manning/"
description: "Mark Manning is Director of Product Marketing, Customer Advocacy at Atlan. He writes Atlan's customer stories with data leaders at Nasdaq, Autodesk,..."
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Mark Manning is Director of Product Marketing, Customer Advocacy at Atlan. He writes Atlan's customer stories with data leaders at Nasdaq, Autodesk, General Motors, Fox, Dropbox, Elastic, Porto, and Tide, documenting how their teams organize, govern, and put context around their data, and what changed once they did.

## Profile

- Byline type: Atlan staff
- Title: Director of Product Marketing, Customer Advocacy
- Covers: customer stories, data governance, data discovery
- Location: United States
- Atlan editorial contributor since Sep 2026

## About Mark

Mark Manning leads customer advocacy in Atlan's product marketing team, where he turns customer interviews, conference sessions, and masterclasses into published customer stories.

He covers data discovery, data governance, data mesh on Snowflake, privacy automation, and data literacy programs across financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing, and media. His stories draw on customer interviews and sessions such as the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit.

## Articles

Mark's bylined customer stories are listed on his profile: https://atlan.com/authors/mark-manning/#articles (all customer stories: https://atlan.com/customers/).

## Editorial relationship

Atlan staff byline. Mark is a member of the Atlan team. The customer stories under his byline are based on interviews and sessions with the named customers; quotes are the customers' own words.