DealBuddi

I guide DealBuddi’s vision and partner with B2B founders, owners and sales teams to turn expertise into predictable, scalable revenue.

Strategic direction
• Define the product roadmap, brand positioning and go-to-market priorities
• Translate long-term vision into focused quarterly sprints so the team ships features that matter

Sales strategy co-creation
• Work directly with founders to turn big goals into an actionable plan grounded in Sales Market Fit and the 5ATE method
• Move organisations from hope-based selling to proactive demand creation

Playbook integration
• Build repeatable messaging frameworks, qualification guides and deal checkpoints that new reps can use from day one
• Map every activity to the buyer’s journey so value is clear at every stage

Coaching and upskilling
• Run workshops, pipeline reviews and live deal sessions to lift individual and team performance
• Provide ongoing feedback, role-plays and metric reviews to make new skills stick

Deal de-risking
• Act as the trusted advisor on the team’s shoulder, surfacing hidden friction and navigating stakeholder politics
• Quantify ROI and craft business cases that move prospects from interest to commitment

AI-driven scale
• Codify successful patterns into DealBuddi AI agents, giving teams on-demand guidance and tailored insights
• Continuously learn from wins and losses so every engagement makes the next one smarter

My goal is simple: make sales feel less overwhelming and more inevitable—one founder, one team, one deal at a time.

Founder 

Our B2B SaaS Journey Podcast

As Co-Host of Our B2B SaaS Journey, I lead conversations that unpack the unfiltered reality of building a B2B SaaS company from ideation to (hopefully) exit. 

Together with my co-founder, I share the wins, missteps, and frameworks that shape how we build SixSides, an event and community engagement platform.

Core Responsibilities

Content leadership: Shape episode themes around the real problems and decisions we face as early-stage founders.

On-air hosting: Co-present weekly podcast episodes, providing perspective from my role as Sales/Marketing Lead.

Storytelling: Translate raw founder experiences into practical lessons and playbooks listeners can apply in their own companies.

Audience engagement: Encourage listeners to subscribe, share, and interact across platforms (Apple, Spotify, YouTube, LinkedIn, Substack).

Community building: Position the podcast as a transparent, founder-led record of building SixSides, helping other SaaS founders learn in real time.

What the role represents
This isn’t just hosting a podcast. It’s documenting a startup in the messy middle, sharing frameworks like Sales Market Fit and founder-led go-to-market, and proving that building in public can be as valuable for the founders as it is for the audience.

Co Host

SixSides

As Co-Founder responsible for Sales and Marketing at SixSides, I'm dedicated to re-inventing the way communities connect, engage, and grow through innovative event technology. 

At SixSides, our platform is designed to deliver unique value for each side of an event community; Event Organisers, Attendees, Sponsors, Speakers, Associations and Staff.

Leveraging my extensive experience in strategic sales, marketing, and community engagement, I help organisations create exceptional event experiences that foster meaningful connections and drive measurable outcomes. 

My role involves developing and implementing strategies that highlight SixSides’ unique capabilities, including gamification, real-time networking, and insightful analytics, enabling our clients to achieve sustainable growth and profound community impact.

I believe in the transformative power of events to build stronger communities, amplify brands, and foster collaboration across industries.

Let's discuss how SixSides can help you elevate your community through memorable event experiences.

Co-Founder, Head of Sales & Marketing

Sales Market Fit

I help B2B founders transition from founder-led sales to a structured, scalable, and repeatable sales approach by finding their Sales Market Fit—the missing piece in most startups’ growth strategies.

Through a proven, structured approach, I help startups:
✅ Develop a repeatable sales framework that doesn’t rely on just one person’s skills
✅ Shift from ad-hoc selling to a process-driven approach that delivers consistent results
✅ Build and enable high-performing sales teams with the right tools and strategies
✅ Shorten sales cycles, increase close rates, and make sales a driver of growth rather than a bottleneck

I’ve seen too many startups struggle with unpredictable revenue, stalled deals, and sales teams that just don’t perform. 

The problem isn’t the people—it’s the lack of a structured approach to selling. Without Sales Market Fit, scaling sales is impossible.

My methodology ensures that startups position themselves correctly in the market, craft compelling messaging, and optimise their sales process for repeatable success.

If you're a founder looking to get control of your sales function, scale beyond yourself, and build a winning sales team, let’s have a conversation!

Core Areas of Expertise
📈 Founder-to-Team Sales Transition – Helping startups shift from relying on the founder to a scalable, structured sales function
🧘 Sales Market Fit Discovery – Finding the right positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for predictable revenue
📓 Sales Team Enablement – Building playbooks, frameworks, and processes to make sales teams more effective
🛞 Demand Creation & Sales Friction Reduction – Helping buyers make faster, better-informed decisions
Sales Process Optimisation – Structuring sales in a way that aligns with how buyers actually make decisions

Founder

Intercept East

As a strategic sales and marketing leader, I have successfully developed and implemented comprehensive sales and marketing strategies that have driven revenue growth, improved market positioning, and increased customer acquisition. 

My approach focuses ensuring that our value proposition aligns with customer needs and delivers measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:
✅ Developed and executed a structured sales strategy, optimising market positioning and streamlining the sales process to accelerate deal closures.
✅  Led the implementation of a Sales Market Fit approach, ensuring repeatable and scalable success in customer acquisition and retention.
✅  Designed and delivered targeted marketing campaigns, aligning brand messaging with customer pain points to increase engagement and lead conversion.
✅  Spearheaded business development initiatives, identifying new markets and expanding the customer base to drive revenue growth.

Sales and Marketing Director

Conductor

I am responsible for evolving Conductor's sales strategy to focus on its unique value proposition: using the latest neuroscience technology to improve clients' businesses.

Our customer-centric approach is focused on adding extraordinary value through the sales process and into a long-lasting partnership.

Head of Growth

FlyFreely

FlyFreely is a market-leading Drone Management Platform that enables any organisation, anywhere in the world to deploy drones at scale legally, safely and efficiently.

Growth Manager

GrowthMentor

Providing 1:1 mentoring for entrepreneurs starting and growing their own businesses through GrowthMentor, a curated platform of invite-only startup and growth marketing mentors who have proven experience in their fields. 

Join to find your next mentor » https://www.growthmentor.com/?ref=gavintye

Mentor

Kinatico (Formerly CV Check)

CVCheck is a market leader in the global compliance, management and reporting SAAS workforce management sector. 

CVCheck is an ASX listed HR technology company servicing over 25,000 SME and large enterprise clients plus 1 million individual clients across Australia and New Zealand.

Client Executive

MyPass Global

Head of Growth & Partnerships

Most businesses leave their growth to chance, hoping their sales process clicks or their events spark engagement. I know, because I used to do the same.

As a sales leader and later a founder, I saw how outdated sales playbooks and underpowered event tools caused wasted opportunities, friction, and stalled growth. 

I was frustrated, because even talented teams and passionate communities couldn’t prove their true value.

That’s what drove me to rethink both challenges from first principles. I built Sales Market Fit to break sales down into something teachable and repeatable, and I co-founded SixSides to help leaders turn events into lasting communities. 

Along the way, I created DealBuddi, an AI sales coach to scale these frameworks and make them accessible to every SaaS founder and sales team.

Today, I help SaaS founders, sales leaders, and event communities simplify complexity, prove their value, and achieve growth. 

Whether it’s through smarter sales or stronger communities, my goal is simple: to ensure no business leaves their success to chance.

Gavin Tye

Timothy Teen

Blue Ocean Capital Partners

Trusted Listener of the C-Suite. BOCP collaborates and actively partners with CEOs, owners, private equity investors, and Boards of B2B companies seeking to grow. We provide corporate development services including fractional CxO, access to capital, leadership development, market insight, actionable intelligence, management resources and relationships to help companies grow. We assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities, researching assumptions, validating a hypothesis, and executing the agreed-to solution.

Founding Partner, CEO

InSitech, Inc.

InSitech, Inc., supports the U.S. Department of Defense's engagement with suppliers throughout the innovation & technology development life-cycle. We identify, develop, and demonstrate enabling technologies that leverage small business innovation, private sector investment and academia research, managing efforts from requirements to research & development to testing through initial integrations.

Founding Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board

Next Defense Solutions, LLC

Develop innovative programs to broaden the Government's access to suppliers and deliver distinct offerings to accelerate research and development and the integration of manufacturing capabilities into the defense industrial base. Develop innovative programs to broaden the Government's access to suppliers and deliver distinct offerings to accelerate research and development and the integration of manufacturing capabilities into the defense industrial base.

Partner

Military Veterans of America

I'm proud to serve those who have served us.   

By 2028, MVoA will serve thousands of Veterans and partner with several like-minded organizations to support the future expansion and sustainable success of our programs. To accomplish our Vision, we will offer Health Care Advocacy and Academic Advising to Veterans and communities across the nation through education and outreach, legislative efforts, and benefit guidance for more effective and meaningful outcomes.

Member Board of Directors

Healthcare Solutions Provider

Rebuilt and led a team that successfully repositioned this healthcare administrator into a healthtech solutions provider. Grew revenue, EBITDA, customer base, and new products/solutions offered. Established strategic partnerships and profitable engagements and created a series of new offerings through internal resources and JV collaboration.

Achieved Inc. 5000 status as one of the fastest growing privately held companies but the greater accomplishment was being certified by the team as a Great Place To Work for the past 3 years.

President & Board Member

Chart Acquisition Corp.

Member of the Board of Directors that launched this $100MM SPAC, executing a transaction in August 2015.

Founding Board Member

Chart Venture Partners, L.P. (an InSitech Company)

Chart Venture Partners, L.P. (CVP) is a $100M private equity / venture capital fund that I established. We invest in highly differentiated opportunities where we add value through our industry experience, network of relationships and technology insight by working closely with portfolio companies through our hands on involvement and support.

Founding Partner

MindCo, Inc.

Subsidiary formed to manage a partnership between the DoD, DoE, Princeton University and InSitech to commercialize a software based technology focused on homeland security applications. Secured funding, planned and implemented channel partner business rollout. Responsible for business development origination with well established industry participants.

Founding CEO

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? Frustrated by not growing as you should? Concerned that profits are tight? Overwhelmed with how to support your team & perform? Let me help.
 
𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥:
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙩𝙝 & 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆! The owner/operator, C-Suite, Private Equity / Investor. I'm an extension of your team, collaborating on the creation & delivery of strategy and revenue.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗗𝗢:
𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔! By leading high-performance teams in the delivery of strategy, profitable & sustainable revenue, impactful go-to-market plans, improved operational processes, to increase enterprise value. 

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗠𝗘:
𝑴𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 $1.2𝑩 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒆! I'm a 7X founder, accredited investor, & CEO experienced in multiple business models and lessons learned. I'm not theoretical, I use what has worked for me and my partners!

𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗦 𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥: 
I'm proud to have delivered many impressive results, as I will for you, and examples include:  

▶ Developed and implemented an engagement campaign that is leading our client's effort to scale in the enterprise market for advanced human capital assessments tools.

▶ Established a GTM and outreach program to service the filling of prescriptions at ~35% below the cost of conventional methods, redefining a sizeable aspect of the $4.5 Trillion healthcare industry.

▶ Created the onboarding, fulfillment, and distribution for a compelling financial product for retirees, and scaling the offering to individuals via their employee benefits.

▶ Facilitating monthly Board meetings for multiple groups, each comprised of 6-8 non-competing CEOs, who benefit from exchanges and peer reviews, using our Socratic approach to solving challenges.
 
▶ Other examples include increased revenue & EBITDA, built GTM strategies, created sales collateral, and coached teams to go from $0 to $1, and then scale to $35MM, $50MM, and even $75MM in ARR.

▶ Our $100 million fund utilized our expertise to help optimize portfolio company performance, and we enjoyed exits to acquirers that included Apple, Google, KKR, and Motorola. 

👉 Please complete the short form in the Featured Section of my Profile, I will schedule a NO-PRESSURE Scenario Analysis at your convenience, or you can use this link: https://www.blueoceancapitalpartners.com/contact-form

Trusted Listeners of the C-Suite. BOCP collaborates and actively partners with CEOs, owners/investors, and Boards of privately held B2B companies seeking to grow. We provide access to capital, market insight, actionable intelligence, management resources and relationships to help companies grow. We assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities, researching assumptions, validating a hypothesis, and executing the agreed-to solution.

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