Pontera

Chief Marketing Officer

Outreach

As a member of the executive team, I led global marketing for this VC-backed sales execution
platform company with oversight including digital/performance, content, customer, product,
and field marketing. I generated, analyzed and leveraged data to build an understanding of
customers, prospects and business needs. I drove product launches, customer acquisition and
product adoption efforts and directed public relations, analyst relations, communications,
brand, and creative. Led a 35+ member team and oversaw development, planning and
execution for the company’s annual conference designed for sales and go-to-market leaders.
Successes included:

 Transforming an underperforming team to power improved outcomes while trimming
$5M in expenses and eliminating 13 external agencies.

 Exceeding pipeline goals for 5 consecutive quarters (up to 128%) after reengineering the
demand gen infrastructure and reimagining market release strategy.

 Reducing customer churn by 15% and raising engaged user rate from 58% to 76% after
convening a marketing task force, leading data-driven solution design, and driving
creation of innovative campaigns.

 Delivering $3M in revenue from Unleash, the company’s annual conference with 2K+
attendees by building product awareness and delivering education to encourage upsell
and expansion.

 Bolstering brand awareness to overtake competitors and reach #1 share of feed on
LinkedIn.

SVP | Head of Global Marketing

The RepTrak Company

Led global marketing strategy across growth, content, product, and customer marketing for this
PE-backed corporate reputation insight and advisory service provider. I oversaw revenue operations, public relations, analyst communications, and brand positioning. Reported to CRO and CEO and led a marketing and revenue operations team.

Highlights included:

 Eclipsing pipeline goals up to 128% for 4 consecutive years by implementing analytics,
attribution and forecasting to monitor channel performance, prioritize marketing
initiatives and mitigate risk.

 Decreasing the sales cycles by 35% and increasing ACV by 20% amid tech industry
headwinds and budget restrictions by designing dynamic territories, focusing on ready-
to-purchase accounts, and elevating alignment between marketing and sales teams.

 Spearheading the company rebrand and repositioning, transforming boutique research
agency into a comprehensive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform and integrated
professional services provider.

 Improving acquisition costs by 92% and engagement by 93%, driving profitability
through strategic, targeted and results-focused spending.

 Evolving a traditional marketing team into a scalable, cost-effective account-based
marketing engine, bringing in new talent and restructuring roles and responsibilities to
optimize performance.

 Establishing revenue operations capabilities and spearheading automation to streamline
the BDR function, increasing pipeline while decreasing costs.

SVP, Head of Global Marketing

- 128% of pipeline goal
- Marketing sourced 82% of revenue
- 15% YoY TCV
- 12% increase in conversion rate from opportunity to Closed/Won 
- Decreased sales cycle by 18%

Vice President of Global Marketing

- 123% of revenue goal
- 100.3% of pipeline goal
- Generated more pipeline in Q1 than all of 2020
- 245% increase in lead generation
- Total Contract Value increased 16%

Senior Director Of Marketing

- 106% pipeline quota
- Reduced sales cycle by 20%
- Increased Total Contract Value by 62%
- Acquisition costs improved 92% and engagement 93%

Director of Global Growth Marketing

Forbes Communications Council

Official Member

Logz.io

Responsible for planning, organizing and executing programs that generate new prospects and advance existing opportunities for the sales team within specific, targeted accounts and contacts.  Acts as liaison between marketing and inside, partner, and field sales teams as well as central demand functions such as inbound/product marketing teams to develop tactics designed penetrate targeted accounts. In addition to ABM program development, responsible for event management worldwide.

- Developed and implemented target account strategy to support account-based selling
- Developed and implemented jointly with sales pipeline generation and acceleration programs for specific, targeted accounts and contacts
- Created annual and quarterly marketing plans and targets for targeted sales accounts and contacts that focused on new logos and accelerated existing opportunities.
- Evaluated, selected and managed vendors that contributed to demand creation programs including platforms, direct mail providers, and fulfillment services
- Designed & executed 1:1, 1: few, and broad-based marketing initiatives to meet pipeline requirements of varied account segments
- Tracked lead flow to ensure the appropriate sales channels followed up on marketing campaigns in a timely manner.
- Deployed ready-to-carry-out marketing tactics and provide sales enablement on an account and industry basis using various channels including digital, events, and social media
- Worked with sales to identify gaps in key personas and contact information within strategic accounts; developed data and insight strategy to add key personas and contacts within accounts
- Created and gained consensus for cross-portfolio GTM plans and marketing plays in alignment with strategic product mandates and sales directives
- Planned, coordinated and managed 3rd party and Logz.io run events to maximize lead, ROI and brand value.

Director of Global Account Based Marketing

riskmethods

riskmethods is a supply chain risk management company that supports procurement and supply chain professionals by digitize their end-to-end supply chain so they can visualize and actively manage their risk exposure. 

Currently, I deliver on a global scale through expert management of marketing programs, campaigns, and assets. Leading a talented team, I increase program effectiveness, forecasting, and ROI, leveraging automation reporting. With a $700k budget, I manage concurrent quarterly and yearly strategy marketing planning. 

I was afforded the chance to step into this role after I realized that our automation efforts could be brought in-house through proper training; which I took it upon myself to complete and earned my Salesforce Certified Pardot SpecialistFp credential.

- Increased marketing qualified leads (MQL) by 30% through automated outreach efforts. 

- Delivered 15% growth in webinar attendance. 

- Leveraged A/B testing to increase web traffic and devise continuous methods for improvement.  

- Reduced lead time from 2 weeks to 3 days. 

- Defined complete solution to seamlessly pass leads and data across systems and departments.

Global Marketing Automation Manager

I initially stepped into riskmethods as the Marketing Manager for North America, charged with executing all aspects of marketing for the North American Operations. Surpassing expectations, I translated global strategies into regional marketing campaigns and programs. I also took the lead in directing marketing functions for the company’s involvement in trade shows and industry events. 

- Created, managed and implemented demand generation programs at scale 

- Produced 4k new leads in 2017, equating to $1.5M in yearly revenue growth. 

- Created engaging and captivating content for email marketing, nurture campaigns, and the blog.

- Media strategy and execution for the region

Marketing Manager for North America

Yesware

Yesware is a fast-growing prescriptive sales platform that assists 800,000+ sales professionals at companies like Groupon, New Relic, and Twitter close more deals.

In this capacity, I focused on originating, developing, and optimizing marketing channels and signature events. I especially excelled at managing all aspects and logistics of lead-generation campaigns and cultivating valuable relationships with strategic partners. Entrusted to control 50% of a million-dollar marketing budget, I diligently tracked and analyzed all available data to create success metrics across channels and marketing spend.

Select accomplishments:

- Earned a reputation as the go-to resource on all things channel marketing by combining fierce self-initiative with elegant design and successful execution of demand-generating programs that fueled sales growth. 

- Spearheaded and coordinated all assets and resources involved in trade conferences, webinars, and speaking engagements.

- Returned positive ROI on both 2014 and 2015 Dreamforce campaigns, which featured multidimensional components, such as guerrilla marketing, a customer dinner, and a gala attended by 3,000.

- Maximized bottom-line results by building mutually beneficial relationships—and negotiating large discounts.  

-  Charged in late 2015 with starting up a comprehensive webinar channel.

- Quickly delivered positive ROI on first two webinars by carefully selecting partners, featuring audience-relevant topics, creating engaging content, and working closely with sales team. Followed up by formulating plan to evolve webinars into webcasts.

Event Marketing Manager

In my initial role at Yesware, I demonstrated immediate value in sales support, event planning and production, and analytics to quickly be promoted.

Select accomplishments:

- Promoted and supported co-branding opportunities and cooperative partner event activities.

- Worked in concert with marketing and sales operations to identify channel marketing opportunities, streamline lead flow, and ensure leads were delivered in real time or as quickly as possible.

- Collaborated with executive sales leadership on sales and technology training; mined and created tools and sales resources to assist sales team members with relationship development and promotion techniques; mentored sales team on best communication and presentation practices.

- Formulated first performance-based metrics and processes for tracking, measuring, and reporting on all touch points throughout purchasing funnel, as well as success / ROI related to original goals.

- Generated and presented periodic board- and executive-level reports on all plans and activities, including costs, proof of performance, and ROI.

B2B Channel Marketing Specialist

University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Taught critical thinking, writing and research skills in top-rated courses to 300+ students
• Gave lectures, led in-class activities and mentored students during one-on-one sessions.
• Developed course materials, curricula and syllabi; made innovative use of social networking platforms to enhance learning experience.
• Collaborated with deans, faculty and staff on matters of academic planning and policy.

University Instructor

Leads high performing marketing organizations that fuel revenue and accelerate growth for
lean, digitally focused SaaS companies. Drives strategies that catalyze marketing capabilities
and builds best-in-class operational frameworks and team cultures.

My mantra: Data, not drama. I maintain a relentless focus on data-driven decision-making,
operational excellence, and team empowerment. My expertise spans digital, social, content,
product, and event marketing—as well as PR, creative and brand—and I craft bold, innovative, 
and analytics-driven strategies that resonate, engage and convert.

I’m a change agent by nature, specializing in modernizing marketing operations, optimizing
systems, and scaling high-impact teams that thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments. My approach is always collaborative, and I use a clear, compelling communication style to gain
buy-in from executive leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure marketing is a true
growth engine, not a cost center. The teams I lead are empowered to deliver innovative
strategies that elevate brands and solidify market position, achieving results that speak for
themselves.

Specialties include: Strategic Vision and Execution, Revenue and Market Growth, Change
Management, Customer Acquisition and Retention, AI Strategy, Brand Positioning and
Awareness, Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy, B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, Marketing
Automation, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, Sales Operations and Enablement, Creativity
and Innovation, Building Workplace Culture, Team Leadership, and Engagement.

Ali Jawin

Manny Medina

Executive Chairman of Outreach, the leading Sales AI platform

Outreach is the leading sales execution platform that helps market-facing teams efficiently create and predictably close more pipeline. From prospecting to deal management to forecasting, our platform leverages automation and artificial intelligence to help revenue leaders increase efficiency and effectiveness of all go-to-market activities and personnel across the revenue cycle. Outreach is the only company to offer sales engagement, revenue intelligence, and revenue operations functionalities in a unified platform. More than 5,500 companies, including Zoom, Siemens, Okta, DocuSign, and McKesson depend on Outreach to power their revenue organizations. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington, with offices worldwide. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io.

this is the most alarming chart I have seen to date

for Saas, shifting to outcomes is an economic emergency.

I used to think it was a choice for the more enlightened ones

not anymore ...

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SaaS isn’t slowing down. It’s getting eaten alive ... cannibalized.

Look at the Aventis Advisors growth chart. The trend isn’t subtle, it’s a cliff.

We went from 36 percent growth to 12 percent. Almost a decade of down and to the right.

With forecasts pointing to 11 percent … and falling, this feels like a pretty big structural shift. SaaS is starting to look like utilities and pipelines, durable and necessary, but no longer where the real upside lives.

And the reason is pretty simple. AI is cannibalizing the very work SaaS used to monetize. 

Here’s what the chart doesn’t show, but every operator feels.

1) SaaS used to sell “workflows.” AI sells “outcomes” (OaaS). Agents do the work inside the tool, so the tool stops being the product. The labor becomes the product. 

2) Budgets (and investors) are leaving SaaS and flowing to digital labor. CFOs aren’t buying more seats. They’re buying fewer humans. AI fits. SaaS doesn’t.

3) Feature parity killed differentiation. Entire categories are indistinguishable. CRM, CX, marketing automation … all the same. AI exposes how thin the moats always were.

4) Enterprises hit peak-SaaS years ago. Now they’re consolidating and cutting 20 to 40 percent of their stack. AI accelerates that purge.

5) AI startups are growing at speeds SaaS can’t touch. When companies hit nine figures in months, not years, investor expectations reset. SaaS looks slow, expensive, and operationally bloated.

6) Value is moving down the stack. The action is in compute, data, agents, and orchestration. SaaS is becoming a UI layer that AI sits on, not the engine driving the work.

The growth-rate collapse isn’t a mystery,  it’s more of a transfer of value. SaaS is maturing into a stable, cash-flow asset class. 

AI is becoming the new growth engine of the enterprise.

That means founders have a choice, build SaaS and optimize it like infrastructure, or build AI agents that replace the workflows SaaS was built to capture.

One path gives you stable multiples, the other gives you growth.

🧲 Uncle! we’re finally hiring a Founding AE Paid
We’ve built double digit millions of qualified pipeline in a month. 
It's just Manoj Ganapathy and I closing
Now we need help! 

🚀 You’ll own the sales motion end-to-end
From strategy to signature. Manoj and I will personally close together with you to make sure you are successful
Our deals are $250K ACV and above. Sold to the full SaaS exec team (CEO, CFO, CRO, CPO, CTO).

You’ll be the person who makes Paid happen inside the world’s best software companies.

🧠 We’re looking for a builder who can sell
We’re not looking for a “closer.” We’re looking for a builder who can sell.

Here’s what that looks like:
Winner: You are competitive. Like to win. All the time. 
Curious: You love untangling complex problems and asking the next question.
Customer-obsessed: You can talk to a CFO about ROI and a CPO about workflow pain.
Technical: You will work closely with our FDE to build what the customer needs and close the deal. Our engineers are sellers 😳 
Strategic: You build internal champions, navigate orgs, and multi-thread
Some Experience: You’ve closed a few $250K–$500K+ enterprise deals in the last 6 months. so you know what's like
Founder energy: You move fast, thrive in ambiguity, and love building. 
High-Agency: You make decisions independently. 

💼 The work
Partner directly with our cofounders (Manoj Ganapathy Raj Dosanjh and I)  to grow the business
Co-Create repeatable sales playbooks as we scale.
Shape the GTM motion — pricing, messaging, and process.

💥 Why Paid
At Paid we sell success - not software, not services - just outcomes!  
It high-stakes work. We don't differentiate between software and services. 
Our customers winning is ALL we care about 

We’re early, ambitious, and moving fast.
This is an opportunity to join at the foundation — massive upside, full agency and autonomy and the empowerment that comes w it..

👉 Let’s Talk
The job is in-person in SF/Bay area. First few weeks in London.

If this is you - DM me.

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