Growth marketing leader who builds AI products.
Fifteen years running paid media, lifecycle, SEO and performance for B2B and consumer brands. Now I build the AI products too, from the agent pipeline to the billing behind it.
Senior Director, Growth Marketing. Denver, Colorado.
By the numbers
- years in growth marketing
- 15+
- in annual ad spend managed
- $20M
- in client revenue driven in 2024
- $4.2M+
- people on the marketing team I led
- 20
Things I've built
Since 2025 I've been building AI products end to end: the agent pipelines, the billing, the ops behind them. Four so far, two of them live, each one solving a problem I'd run into doing the marketing work.
The biggest is OpenSalvo, a cold outreach platform for B2B sales teams. The others are a local newsletter, a website generator for small businesses, and the pipeline that runs my own job search.
OpenSalvo
AI cold outreach that runs from lead to booked meeting.
A self-serve platform that researches each prospect's company, writes the email they'd actually want to read, sends it, handles the replies, and books interested prospects onto your calendar. You approve messages before anything goes out.
Read the case studyThe other three
CornerBeat
A daily local newsletter, written by AI and run by one operator.
Read the case studySite Builder
A complete website for a local business, generated and hosted.
Read the case studyJob Fit Analyzer
My own job search, run as an AI pipeline.
Read the case studyWhere I've worked
- 2025 to now
Founder, OpenSalvo
- Built a self-serve AI cold outreach platform from scratch: prospect discovery, enrichment, email drafting, delivery, reply handling and meeting booking in one autonomous pipeline, with no manual steps between a new lead and a booked meeting.
- Built a pre-sales demo that finds real businesses in a prospect's own market, writes the email each one would receive, and simulates how replies get handled and meetings booked, so buyers see the product work before they pay.
- Designed managed sending: buy a sending domain in the platform and it connects the domain, warms the mailboxes over several weeks, and says when they're ready, with no operator involvement.
- Shipped the commercial and operational layer: self-serve subscription billing, per-tenant usage quotas, a cross-tenant admin dashboard with real-time KPIs and pipeline health alerts, and human-in-the-loop escalation that drafts a response when a reply is beyond what the system should answer alone.
- Embedded an AI support copilot that keeps its conversation history across sessions, knows whether it's talking to a customer or an anonymous prospect, and answers accordingly without exposing internal system details.
- Built it solo, and made the positioning, messaging, pricing, pitch deck and sales collateral too.
- 2022 to now
Partner, Hinterlands Digital
- Fractional CMO for 6+ clients at once, owning strategy, channel mix, budgets up to $150K a month, and KPI accountability across digital, direct response and outbound sales.
- Built multi-channel lead generation across Google PPC, Facebook Ads, direct mail and cold-calling teams: 2,500+ qualified leads a quarter at a blended cost per lead 35% below industry benchmarks.
- Implemented Salesforce and HubSpot for multiple clients, including pipeline stages, lead-scoring automations and executive reporting views, cutting average lead-to-close time by 22%.
- Designed the tracking, real-time dashboards and weekly reporting cadence that made client decision-making 40% faster.
Notable results
- $4.2M+ in attributable client revenue in 2024, at an average 3.8:1 ROAS across paid channels.
- Average 28% client revenue lift within the first six months of an engagement.
- 2022 to 2024
Director of Marketing, Rapid Fire Home Buyers
Buys houses for cash, direct from homeowners.
- Built the company's marketing playbook from scratch, with processes that supported 2.25x growth in monthly deal volume over 18 months.
- Built an A/B testing framework across 8+ channels and onboarded 5 new vendor partners, raising marketing ROI 37% in the first year.
- Ran the full Salesforce implementation (custom objects, workflows and reporting) and owned the platform until a dedicated Salesforce administrator was hired.
- Directed 12+ vendors and agency partners across TV, billboards, PPC, SEO, direct mail, cold calling and SMS on a combined $1.8M annual budget.
Notable results
- Rebuilt the legacy lead tracking system, improving P&L attribution accuracy by 95% and giving real-time cost per acquisition by channel.
- Hit monthly marketing KPI targets 18 months in a row, including 52% more qualified leads while marketing spend fell from 38% to 24% of revenue.
- Launched a direct mail program that became the top channel: 5:1 ROI and 60% of all closed deals.
- 2018 to 2022
Director of Marketing, StocksToTrade
B2B subscription software for traders.
- Led all divisions of a 20-person marketing team: email, paid media, content, development and CRO.
- Owned lifecycle email, building automated onboarding, activation and retention sequences that drove hundreds of thousands in incremental revenue and supported a 65% monthly retention rate.
- Built the self-serve onboarding and activation flows that got new subscribers to a first real result inside their first week, reducing early churn and improving 30-day retention.
- Managed $300K to $400K a month in paid media spend.
- Ran the workflow between a large outside agency and the in-house team to launch a product on time and on budget.
Notable results
- Grew revenue an average of 142% month over month across the life of the Stock Therapy product funnel.
- Launched 3 of the company's most successful products, together earning millions in revenue at better than 3:1 ROI.
- Created promotions to win new customers and raise existing customers' lifetime value, lifting revenue 30%.
- Built a complete, accurate customer database and reporting suite over the course of a year.
- Built dashboards for customer LTV by source, first- and last-interaction value, AOV and the other numbers needed to judge marketing's performance.
- 2014 to 2018
Social Advertising Manager, Clicks and Clients
Digital advertising agency.
- Managed $20M a year in ad spend, including $2M+ a month on Facebook.
- Led and trained a team of 6 analysts and specialists.
- Worked directly with the agency's top clients, across industries with different objectives.
Notable results
- Built the agency's social advertising department from nothing, including all of its processes and structure.
- Grew the department's revenue more than 10x, making it the agency's highest-earning department.
- Recognized as an expert in Facebook advertising.
- 2014
PPC Analyst, Clicks and Clients
- Developed and implemented new strategies based on paid advertising best practices.
Notable results
- Increased sustained leads and spend on the agency's largest account by 1,400%.
- Led the agency's own marketing, increasing its leads 10x.
- Improved the department's efficiency through better documentation and procedures.
- Held a 90% client retention rate.
- Earlier
- Marketing Intern, Amnet
- Marketing Intern, Ing Tech Corporation
- Account Executive, Tech for Less, LLC
What I bring
Growth
- Demand generation
- Paid media and PPC
- Lifecycle and email
- SEO and AEO
- Attribution and analytics
- CRM: Salesforce, HubSpot
Leading and building
- Budget and P&L ownership
- Team leadership
- AI product development
- Agentic workflow design
- Prompt engineering
- Next.js, Supabase, Claude API
Let's talk about your next stage of growth.
Hiring for growth or marketing leadership, or want to talk about AI products? I'd like to hear from you.