Alex Gordon-Furse

portday

Portday is an AI-powered platform built just for shipping agents.

It automates your Proforma & Final Disbursement Accounts (PDA/FDA), handles port tariff updates, invoice reconciliation, document generation and more.

It does this all from one clean software product so that you can spend less time on manual data entry and more time managing your clients.

Co-Founder & CEO

Playmaker

Intelligent document processing for traditional industries, with customers across Financial Services, Real Estate, Logistics and more. 

After finding a specific need in the maritime logistics industry in late 2024, we decided to focus fully on that industry in early 2025.

Stealth Startup

Refining my opinions on where the world is going, and learning what people will need more of :)

Building something new

Community Hacked

Founded and ran a side project with a few of my friends where we built a global community of the best community builders & experts. 

Ran many events where I interviewed the global heads of community from companies like Salesforce, Notion, Peloton, Airtable, Canva, Zendesk and many more.

Co-Creator / Founder

Startup Grind

CSO for Startup Grind global: the world’s largest startup community across 600 locations in 120 countries.

Helped thousands of pre-seed and seed-stage startups gain access to funding, mentorship and customers.

Closed several $million in sales relating to innovation and sponsorship with some of the world's biggest tech brands like Microsoft and Snowflake during my time there.

We also ran the largest tech conference in Silicon Valley, hosting speakers like the founders/CEOs of Google, OpenAI, Zoom, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Uber, A16Z, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and many more.

Chief Strategy Officer

VP Sales & Startups

Director, Startup Programs

SG DAO

Built a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) that aimed to be the world's first truly community-owned accelerator. 

Pivoted into a community-backed micro VC run by Startup Grind that invested into pre-seed and seed-stage companies. 

We made 8 investments before I left in Feb '23

Co-Founder & Co-Lead

Multiple startups

Angel investor in companies like Bevy (https://www.bevy.com/), Odin (https://www.joinodin.com/), Goodloans (https://www.goodloans.co/) and Paus (https://paus.tv/).

Angel Investor (temporarily paused)

Freshworks Inc. (formerly Freshdesk)

Led Freshservice (Freshworks's fastest-growing product) GTM in UK&I

One of the 5 winners of the first ever President’s Club in 2017.

Freshworks IPO'd in 2021 on NASDAQ under the ticker FRSH

Head of UK & I Sales

2nd hire in EMEA

Worked on developing and executing the go-to-market

Accenture

Front-to-back systems transformation project at UBS Investment Bank and blockchain research project for a presentation to the board of HSBC UK.

Won multiple awards as a top-performing Analyst at both Accenture and UBS Investment Bank.

Business & Systems Integration Consultant

iris worldwide

Worked on the ideation and development phases of projects for the Adidas and Durex accounts.

Account Management Intern

Co-Founder at Playmaker

Empowering shipping agents from across the world to transform their operations with AI.

Learn more at https://www.portday.com/

Co-Founder/Co-Lead

Aiming to be the world's first community-owned accelerator, and has recently pivoted into being an LP in the new community-backed Micro VC run by Startup Grind that is investing into pre-seed and seed-stage companies.

Kevin Doubleday

Digital Marketing Coordinator 

Fluree, PBC

I lead PR, marketing, content, demand gen, sales enablement, partner enablement, and go-to-market at Fluree - the Web3 Data Platform built to power next-generation applications. 

Fluree is a zero-trust knowledge graph that powers decentralized data networks, individual apps, and verifiable credentials. Fluree enables a standards-based and privacy-preserving global data ecosystem.
 
Learn more: https://www.flur.ee/

Communications Director

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Queens Chapter

- Implement social media strategy to support effective cross-platform messaging (grew audience to over 1,600 in first year)
- Use Mailchimp to design, edit, and deliver newsletters & special announcements (open rates 12% above industry average)
- Manage website CRM to update content, coordinate online event registrations, and manage 400+ members

Strategic Communications Manager

Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau

- Work with local press and Ithaca social media influencers to hit tourism marketing objectives 
- Pitch and liaise with local media to promote Ithaca events to local and tourist audiences
- Coordinate #IthacaisPeople @VisitIthaca Instagram
- Manage all web content at: www.visitithaca.com
- Write, edit, and follow through with pitches and press releases as they pertain to the City of Ithaca and Ithaca Tourism

Special Olympics New York

- Create and disseminate marketing materials for fundraising events (both hardcopy and social media)
- Conduct market research and analyze data in order to effectively market to donors 
- Facilitate communication between the New York office and Ithaca's volunteer groups 
- Organize successful events (i.e. The Ithaca Polar Plunge)

Marketing Intern

Quinn PR

- Directly secured various travel, hotel & real estate client placements through creative pitches and strategic media relations
- Built media lists with travel, luxury and lifestyle designations, resulting in placements surpassing 2M unique impressions
- Participated in brainstorming sessions across agency to propose strategic client partnerships and creative campaigns

Public Relations Intern

The Glimmerglass Festival

- Report directly to Director of Public Relations and assist with copy writing/editing
- Manage Glimmerglass website and social media
- Research and pitch story ideas and press releases to media outlets

Ithaca Youth Bureau

- Worked one-on-one with children with disabilities at Cass Park Day Camp

Inclusion Specialist

Advanced Repair Technology

- Developed and coordinated social media marketing campaigns
- Oversaw research marketing projects
- Updated company web page and managed media content

Communications and Marketing @ Fluree.

Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems and applications. The Fluree platform organizes blockchain-secured data in a scalable semantic graph database, allowing for data-centric trust, provenance, security, and context. 

Build connected knowledge graphs, enterprise blockchains, and web3-enabled applications on the leading Web3 data management platform: http://flur.ee.

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Marketing/Public Relations Practitioner in B2B Technology, Data, and Web3 Industries with 5+ years of experience executing high-impact, high-value strategic communication.

Excels in: 
- Mapping communications strategies to business goals - and implementing tactics to achieve them
- Driving consistent and meaningful message positioning across industry stakeholders
- Defining, securing, and executing a variety of PR opportunities - both traditional and 'guerilla' style
- Producing copy that is effective and actionable
- Placing the right narrative in front of the right audiences, through the right media

I coordinate PR, marketing, co-marketing, sales enablement, partner enablement, and go-to-market at Fluree - the Web3 Data Platform built to power next-generation applications. 

Fluree is a zero-trust knowledge graph that powers decentralized data networks, individual apps, and verifiable credentials. Fluree enables a standards-based and privacy-preserving global data ecosystem.
 
Learn more: https://www.flur.ee/

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