Gautam Goswami
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CEO and Chief AI Officer
Los Angeles, California, United States
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- FFounder, CEOFounder at ECHOMEAIMar 2026 - Current (8 months)Creating the complete agentic ai stack for creators.
CEO & Chief AI OfficerCommentSoldOct 2022 - Current (4 years 1 month)Driving the development of an AI native toolset targeted towards Creators and Solopreneurs - pivoting the company to lead in the age of AI.
Primary focus areas:
Complete AI assisted development cycle transformation for our engineering teams
An AI first UI for our tip of the spear applications
Delivering applications previously not possible Pre-AI.
POP.STORE and ECHO-ME.AI are product lines belonging to CommentSold.- CEO & CTOCommentSoldOct 2022 - Current (4 years 1 month)CommentSold Inc. now spans 3 different product lines all connected to Creator Commerce.
POP.STORE - Our revolutionary Creator Owned Business Platform built into their Link-in-Bio
Videeo - The #1 Video Commerce and UGC app for Shopify
CommentSold - The company that led the live shopping revolution in the USA - Board MemberAxiomAug 2022 - Mar 2023 (8 months)
- Chief Growth OfficerCommentSoldJun 2022 - Sep 2022 (4 months)Took a full time position in CommentSold to drive the companies growth in the exciting Video Commerce space.
- InvestorMcAfeeMar 2022 - Oct 2022 (8 months)
- InvestorAllTrailsNov 2021 - Current (5 years)
- InvestorCommentSoldAug 2021 - Current (5 years 3 months)
- PrincipalPermiraMay 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 6 months)Driving accelerated growth within portfolio companies through process, execution optimization and vision in products and marketing & helping pick the best investments within the consumer and technology sectors for maximum investor value.
Current Active Investments:
AllTrails - The leading outdoor adventure mapping tech
McAfee - The Leader in Personal & Internet Protection Software
CommentSold - America's #1 Live-Selling Platform
Axiom Law - Global leader in high-caliber legal talent - Board AdviserAxiomMay 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 3 months)Advising the board and top management on product and marketing strategy.
- CMO and Global EVP. ProductsTeamViewerMar 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years 2 months)In this role I ran the global marketing and product management teams for TeamViewer.
I built out a modern marketing organization for TeamViewer creating a globally matrixed structure which operates on the cutting edge of optimizations putting all our ducks in a row. From product management, go to market messaging, campaign alignment, conversion optimization, ABM to accelerated lead gen, and direct conversions - the teams work as units by product line.
The solutions marketing team partners with product teams and business leaders to create, socialize and market cross product enterprise digitalization solutions - reporting into a SVP of Solution Marketing
We have two major marketing production centers in German - Marketing Strategy Adviser to the PresidentInformaticaJan 2019 - Feb 2019 (2 months)Helping Informatica management with streamlining the global marketing organization and marketing processes, tuned towards refining the role and value proposition of marketing as a major pillar in cementing the company's position as the leader in 'all things data' - in 2019 and beyond.
- VBoard Advisor, Marketing Strategy & ExecutionVacaliansDec 2018 - Feb 2019 (3 months)Working with the Vacalians group to optimize the user journeys, GTM flows and ecommerce conversion optimization for Europe's largest 'Glamping' websites - Vacanceselect.com , Selectcamp.com , Tohapi.fr and Canvasholidays.com
- Marketing Strategy Advisor to the BoardWeddingWireJul 2018 - Dec 2018 (6 months)Working with the Permira VCP team to analyze, enhance and optimize the WeddingWire marketing organization and processes for maximum throughput.
- Office of StrategyTeamViewerJan 2018 - Dec 2018 (1 year)Taking on a new role at TeamViewer, manning the position of Chief Strategy Officer - external consultant. Focus on charting the path for a product line and GTM strategy which is united yet defined by specialities within modular functionality sets within the remote access, collaboration and global connected workplaces.
TeamViewer is poised for a quantum leap in 2018 with extended focus in Asia, a major push in the Americas and a series of optimizations within the product and GTM processes to strengthen its core presence in EMEA. - Marketing Strategy Adviser to the CCOTricor GroupMay 2017 - Mar 2018 (11 months)Working with Permira and the new Tricor Commercial Team (CCO - Charles Hamilton Ferguson) to structure and implement a modern commercial-driver marketing and sales framework for Tricor Services in Asia.
The first task was consolidating 18 different regional websites in 4 different languages into 1 global website. We used the 2020 Trademark Adaptive Content Pathways to create a mesh of offices and services - interlinked in a way where no service had to be repeated for specificity while the offices still maintained the ability to specify their regional specializations. The site was launched in a record time of 65 days from start and 4 multilingual translations targeted for the next 90 days. The site improved access speeds from ac - Marketing Strategy Adviser to the BoardTeamViewerMar 2017 - Dec 2017 (10 months)Working with TeamViewer Executive Mgmt. to structure, optimize and expand TeamViewers presence in the Enterprise Customer Support space in North America.
We completely restructured TeamViewers GTM messaging for North America with a completely re-written, redesigned and re-architected US website featuring 2020Compute’s trademark Adaptive Content Pathways. On top of the refined messaging and content flows , this new site allows daily updates, built in A/B testing and heat maps and n-level content workflows for content democratization. We have improved download efficiency by double digit percentages through daily testing and continuous fine tuning.
In parallel we are in the process of implementing another one of our trade - Marketing Strategy Adviser to the BoardJohn Masters OrganicsFeb 2017 - Nov 2017 (10 months)Advising the JMO board and C-Suite on digital and social marketing strategy to expand the brand influence of JMO in the United States, using a combination of social media, web site, amazon and conversion optimized flows to increase sales.
- Marketing Strategy Adviser to the CMOGenesysAug 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 7 months)Currently focusing on demand gen optimization with the SVP of global demand and SVP content marketing and their teams to help optimize implementation and delivery of the CMO’s next generation marketing initiatives for 2017.
Worked with Genesys CMO @Merijn te Booij and his direct reports through the process of integrating the ININ marketing organization into Genesys. Primary function, sounding board for the CMO for decisions on strategic positioning of initiatives, people and key proposals to the board. - Strategic Advisor - Marketing & ProductsPermiraMay 2016 - Apr 2021 (5 years)Working with the Permira Advisers team(s) worldwide in portfolio optimization projects including due diligence, correcting marketing readiness, product strategy and management, improving organizational effectiveness, process optimization, and spend optimization in both B2B and B2C sectors.
Projects & Tasks:
● Marketing & Product effectiveness due diligence of potential investments.
● Interview relevant marketing and product positions within the portfolio
● Strategic Adviser to the CEO (Office of Strategy) TeamViewer - Product & Global GTM Strategy
● Marketing Strategy Change Management for Informatica
● Marketing effectiveness improvement adviser to the Board at Vacalians
● Strategic Adviser to the - Founder & PartnerComputeMay 2016 - Apr 2021 (5 years)2020Compute is a marketing management & execution optimization advisory and execution firm, providing market Perception Adjustment, Adaptive Content Flows, Precipice Marketing and other top level marketing strategy and execution acceleration services to the C-Suite at private equity owned and B+ venture round funded companies.
Visit the website at: http://www.2020compute.com - Strategic Advisor - MarketingIonic Security acquired by TwilioMay 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 6 months)Ionic Security came out of to stealth mode with a fresh round of Investment from Goldman Sachs and Amazon (http://fortune.com/2016/06/01/amazon-goldman-sachs-ionic-security/) . One of the most important pieces of this emergence was a redefined digital presence with focused and refined messaging for the target audience.
I worked directly with Marge Breya, Ionic CMO in executing and delivering a brand new digital presence in the form of Ionic.com for the June 1 announcement concerning the new powerful inv - Management Consultant:Digital Strategy Advisor to the CEOTanzu Observability by WavefrontMay 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 1 month)Wavefront has amazing technology. It can provide you with real time dashboards monitoring millions of data points in various parts of your SaaS business keeping you on top of every factor that can affect the growth and reliability of your services.
Pete Cittadini, CEO of Wavefront called upon me to bring in 2020Compute to update the companies nascent digital strategy starting from a brand new web presence. The team at 2020Compute was able to deliver a brand new website architecture along with visual consultancy and content structuring within a record time of 45 days from project start to launch a brand new website for Wavefront on June 15th.
For phase ii, I am working closely with Pete to start outbound and social ma - VP. Marketing - Velocity ProductsInformaticaJun 2015 - May 2016 (1 year)Ivan Chong, past CSO of Informatica and Permira Advisers recruited me to come join the company to bring a new business user focus and perspective to a company primarily focused on the IT buyer. I was heading up go-to-market strategy, messaging and marketing execution for Informatica’s business-user focused product lines and solution bundles.
Responsibilities included:
> GTM Strategy and Overall positioning of Informatica REV
> Leading Informatica's business user focused product & messaging strategy spanning Informatica Cloud, Informatica REV and Informatica DAAS product lines
> Supporting and Solidifying Informatica's joint GTM with Tableau, Marketo and Salesforce Wave Analytics - VP. Global Digital Marketing - All DivisionsOpenTextJan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)In Dec 2014 OpenText started the acquisition process for Actuate.
As soon as the merger went through, I had a few meetings with Mark Barrenchea and his then CMO. After a few meetings I was informed that Mark wanted me to run digital marketing for the whole OpenText portfolio.
While this was a significant increase in responsibilities with a 200+ people organization - it was not something I enjoyed doing. OpenText being a bigger company was still far behind Actuate when it came to their MARTECH stack and processes at that point. - VP Global Marketing - ActuateOpenTextOct 2013 - Dec 2014 (1 year 3 months)Actuate has 3 distinct business units catering to distinct horizontal bands in the data intelligence, retrieval, analysis and delivery space.
The core business unit consists of the BIRT iHub product lineup focused towards end user reporting and customer experience management solutions.
The BIRT Content Services business unit is focused on retrieval, transformation, composition, delivery and archiving of very high volume data from databases and print streams... think a 10,000 A4 pages per minute or more.
Spearheading our business analytics and big data mining efforts is our BIRT Analytics business unit. Equipped with its own Big Data engine in the backend (FAST DB), BIRT Analytics is capable of real-time a - Sr.Director & General Manager BIRT onDemand - Smart SaaSOpenTextMay 2011 - Sep 2013 (2 years 5 months)As GM and business owner of the Actuate cloud services business unit, this position gave me the chance to take my product marketing and engineering background to the next level and gain real time experience in customer interaction and sales process. I was out on sales calls traveling 3 days a week around the US. This job helped me develop a new level of appreciation for sales executitves and a new skill.
I was responsible for driving the vision and own the BIRT onDemand SaaS platform. Job involved running Sales, Product Management & Marketing for this new cloud based product line. - Sr.Director Online Business & BIRT OnDemandOpenTextJul 2010 - Jun 2011 (1 year)I conceptualized and built the first version of Actuate's cloud offering, BIRT onDemand while managing the companies online presence. The management with board approval, decided to move me to a new role at Actuate running the SAAS product direction and business vision for Actuate.
As the company embarks into the cloud age and enters the arena of SAAS BI with what I believed could become of the first and the smartest SAAS BI solutions available in the space. - Director, Online Marketing and TechnologyOpenTextJan 2008 - Sep 2010 (2 years 9 months)Job Entails managing Actuates Online Marketing team/Budget and Technical Team/Budget in charge of developing and maintaining applications for the Marketing and Sales departments.
As the Director of Online Marketing and Technology I have some key positions like the SEM Manager, Manager of Creative Projects, Webmaster, Marketing Analyst and their teams reporting to me. - Sr.Mgr Online Marketing and TechnologyOpenTextJan 2007 - Dec 2007 (1 year)I moved to the Actuate Marketing dept in 2007 January along with my Team. Even in my role as the Applications Development Manager I was making a lot of online marketing decisions. Starting Jan 2007 I was given the role in which I was responsible for the implementation of Actuate's online programs along with the responsibilty of the technology underneath it.
- Manager, Web ApplicationsOpenTextJan 2001 - Dec 2006 (6 years)In charge of all Marketing Technology including their global websites, intranets, document management system, marketing campaign management, salesforce, Internal reporting for Marketing and Sales etc etc. Pretty much all the technological needs of Marketing and Sales departments of Actuate Corp.
- Director, Nagpur ISPSifyJan 1997 - Dec 1999 (3 years)Ran the ISP Business for Satyam Infoway in Nagpur - Started while I was in MBA school as Satyam bought my Startup and hired me to lead their Nagpur team. Providing internet access and web development services to companies and individuals in and around Nagpur
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- MBA, MarketingNagpur UniversityJan 1996 - Dec 1998 (3 years)
- Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical EngineeringNagpur UniversityJan 1991 - Dec 1995 (5 years)