Michael Day
Chief Marketing Officer | Managing Partner
Michael is a driven and resourceful marketing leader embodying a strong balance of strategic visionary and creative executor with 20 years plus years of experience across demand generation, and communications, marketing operations, brand management, and full-funnel marketing strategy. His hands-on experience, includes exposure to hyper-growth SMBs, early to late-stage startups and well-known brands across Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AdTech, MarTech, SaaS, digital, health and wellness categories.
With the grit for putting the right foundation in place, to meet investor expectations. He has a passion for growing private and venture-backed (Martech, Adtech SaaS) startups, and SMBs in the U.S., UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
He co-developed a “B2B SaaS Success Blueprint”, a robust GTM playbook drawn from the real life experience, used in 15+ companies to level up SaaS companies & accelerate their achievement of T2D3 growth.
He helps private equity funded startups, midsize and Fortune 500 companies level up their growth by building high performance teams, and designing sustainable strategy for the brand, to grow in a way that will continue to drive top-line growth.
GVG clients have seen their brands amplified and positioned in a way that transforms them from below average or average to stronger, stand-out performers.
Often times,Michael is on the leadership team of 2-3 clients in parallel working along side of the leaders and investors 18 - 36 months to build the team, level up marketing and lay the groundwork for culture, people, process and performance improvements.
Michael and his team transform marginal performing brands into distinct brands with competitive advantages.
Michael works on a global basis, lived in six countries, trained in five languages and has worked with a diverse range of cultures and organizations ranging from startups to billion dollar multinationals. He resides in Washington State and Greater Lisbon, Portugal.
Some of the start-ups and fast scaling companies he’s worked with are:
Zeiierman Trading, SwissDecode, Imagenica SA, Robosavvy, and Truewind.
Fortune 500 brands he’s executed international market expansions, brand extensions or launched new product and service lines for include:
Meta, SalesForce, OutSystems, Microsoft, HP, Nintendo, Boeing, AT&T Wireless, CheckPoint Software, RSA Security, Symantec, BD Biosciences, Teledyne Lecroy and LifeWave.
Gopal Rajguru
Senior Partner Sales Leadership
Gopal is an international sales leadership educator and coach, university professor, as well as an investor and entrepreneur based in Geneva, Switzerland.
He has more than 30 years experience in international sales and leadership positions, and has since '2000 been helping organizations transform their sales process into a competitive advantage.
With the ability to work in many of our clients' languages, he can help them design and implement a comprehensive business-to-business sales process and supporting tools, build channel sales, help sales leaders become more effective at creating a high-performance culture , consult on strategy, develop and implement customer-centric, innovation programs, facilitate workshops and provide one-to-one and group coaching.
Gopal works on a global basis with clients of all sizes from multinational to local small-to-medium-enterprises across a variety of industries ranging from software and Internet to electronics, telecommunications and higher education.
John Gale
Senior Partner Corporate Development
John is a senior commercialization and corporate development executive from Silicon Valley. His consulting business is now based in London. John has a stellar track record in venture funding and M&A, opening and growing markets, new business development and direct sales and client/partner relationship management for startup and Fortune 500 companies in software, Internet/content, semiconductors, social networking, and hardware devices. He's worked with:
Silicon Valley startups, marketing and venture capital units within the Global 500 including Apple, IBM, Lockheed Martin, NEC, Toshiba and others.
Christopher Hermann
Senior Partner Creative and Design
Christoper is a senior creative and design executive, entrepreneur, design thinker and investor originally from Germany. He's started, owned and operated more than ten companies with diverse interests ranging from digital marketing agencies to an e-book aggregator and vintage car trading. Christopher has an established track record developing successful multi-million euro/dollar ad, brand, PR and advertising client campaigns. He's got a knack for turning struggling brands back into strong performers. He's worked with:
Red Bull, Nintendo, Sony, Universal Music, Nike, P&G, Suzuki, Samsung, DFB, Electronic Arts and other well known brands in the entertainment and film industry.
Paul Haugen
Senior Partner Strategic Asset Management
Paul is a senior level negotiator with a 25 year established career track record of leadership in technology and real estate based in Seattle. Previous to joining GVG, Paul spent the last three years as a private real estate investor and advisor to startups. Prior to that time, he spent 20 years with Microsoft as the group manager where he managed the Global Procurement Software and Software Asset Management (SAM) team responsible for sourcing software licenses (and related professional services, hardware, and other technical services), cloud services, SaaS, and the delivery, management and maintenance of the internal Software Asset Management Program (SAM).
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