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Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

Herald

Deliver GTM audits, messaging overhauls, and strategic 90-day plans for mission-driven companies between $3–5M in revenue to unlock new growth.

Provided insight on outbound performance, show-up rates, and close metrics to sharpen GTM execution.

Advise founders on positioning, sales strategy, and offer design to increase close rates and shorten sales cycles.

Lead client training sessions to align sales teams with offers and positioning that convert.

Launched and grew the founder’s podcast, reaching 1,000 subscribers, 20,000+ downloads, and 100 five-star reviews.

Growth Strategy, Sales / GTM / Performance Marketing

Colorwave

Serve as a core mentor and speaker for Colorwave’s flagship fellowship, guiding underrepresented professionals as they break into tech and startups.

Lead coaching sessions on high-leverage topics like equity compensation, negotiation strategy, and how to evaluate startups like a VC.

Colorwave Speaker and Community Leader

First strategic hire who helped niche the GTM focus to RIA firms while working daily with the product team to shape the roadmap based on sales feedback.

Onboarded new reps in under two weeks with custom playbooks, training decks, and live enablement sessions.

Built and led a guerrilla campaign at SaaStr that generated over $300K in qualified pipeline in just three days.

Launched and scaled G2 review engine from scratch, driving 40+ reviews and earning six industry badges, including Top Performer.

Led outbound strategy across LinkedIn, email, and phone, achieving 43% open rates and 55% connection rates on cold outreach.

Vice President, GTM Strategy

Concord Project Technologies Inc.

Scaled the company to $5M in revenue while leading client delivery, relationships, and contract growth. Projects focused on improving the execution of $100M+ mega projects for EPC clients like Exxon, Shell, and Rio Tinto.

Took Concord Academy, an AWP certification body, from idea to global education platform with 3,000+ students across 25 countries and 60+ enterprise clients in year one.

Opened the Latin American market by localizing training and pricing, making Concord the go-to provider for the South American mining sector.

Led ISO 9001 certification from zero to audit-ready, completing two external audits and earning certification in under 90 days.

Built and executed GTM and ops strategies that drove new business lines without adding headcount or burning marketing spend.

Operations Manager, Sales and Partnerships

1Strive

Built and ran an entrepreneurship / leadership program for first-time founders.

Created a jobseeker-to-founder transition mentoring community: 40+ mentors coached 55+ mentees through new roles or launches.

Delivered 1:1 and group coaching on sales, clarity, and execution for early-stage founders.

Launched a startup community for founders building in public. 

Conference speaker and local consultant for small business and high school programs.

Founder

South Texas College

Strategy, Event Planning, and Event Marketing: Served as advisor for 4 student organizations. Organized 20+ campus events, attracting an average of 300 attendees and improving the quality of the collegiate experience.

Social Media Marketing: Developed social media promotions, expanding advertising of department’s services to students.

Student Activities Specialist

The University of Texas - Pan American

Student Coordinator

Eliminating Gaps in Revenue Strategy for 7-Figure Brands Wanting to Become 8-Figure Brands | Sales and GTM Operations Leader | Selling is Serving

I have 10 years of experience helping early-stage startups unlock revenue by building the GTM systems they should have started with.

As a strategic operator, I work across sales, customer success, and product feedback loops to drive meaningful results. I’ve helped grow both internal teams and client companies to $5M+ in annual revenue by tightening execution, sharpening messaging, and aligning GTM strategy with real customer needs.

I’ve been an entrepreneur my entire career. Along the way, I’ve learned that doing what you can now is the only way to earn the freedom to do what you love later. That mindset also shapes how I approach AI. It's already reshaping and disrupting the world I work and thrive in. I have a responsibility to my family to prepare for what’s coming, not just react to it.

I share on LinkedIn and invite anyone to join the conversation. If you identify with anything below:
✓ building in public 
✓ startups, investing, and legacy building
✓ coffee and photography (for the creatives 😉 ) 

Connect or say hi. 

Much love, 
Aaron

Aaron Barreiro

Evan Patterson 💅🏻

Hire Me & Win In The Attention Economy💥 I Help Founders & Startups Grow Audiences 🔥 Ghostwriting • Personal Branding • Social Selling • Community Marketing • Content Strategy • B2B Influencers • Affiliate Programs

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I’m Evan Patterson.

Fractional CMO. Personal CMO.
LGBTQ+. AuDHD. Two cats who have main-character energy and paperwork opinions.
Metro Detroit-raised, Chicago-thriving, seeking a EU-husband for dual citizenship (kind of not joking...)

A small but vocal group of humans — plus my mother — call me the Joan Rivers of Marketing. I didn’t ask for that title, but I also didn’t give it back.

My work focuses on helping founders, CEOs, and operators stop sounding like they were assembled by committee. When people understand you quickly, everything gets easier: sales, hiring, partnerships, even that awkward moment when someone pretends they’ve heard of your company before.

My entire approach runs on feral specificity.
Egregiously unique. Audaciously effective.
Ideas with teeth. Narratives with posture. Writing that doesn’t need a spotlight to command attention.

I work in two lanes.

Evan Patterson Consulting
The Fractional CMO lane.

This is where companies finally get a marketing function that isn’t held together by vibes, hope, and a Google Doc last updated during the pandemic. I rebuild the structure, the sequencing, and the decisions that keep revenue steady instead of seasonal.

The second lane
The executive identity work.

Voice extraction. Narrative architecture. Brand presence that doesn’t wobble when the market does. There’s more coming in this lane; something I’m building quietly; and it’s shaping the way I help leaders show up with clarity and actual gravitational pull.

I build systems with staying power.
I build brands people remember without squinting.
I build marketing that earns attention because it deserves attention.

People who work well with me tend to appreciate speed, accuracy, and a sense of humor about the chaos they built before I arrived. People who want a polite museum tour of marketing usually exit early.

My goal is consistent: make you unmistakable.

Fractional Content & Community Marketing Leader

Ditch the gift cards, scrap the underutilized benefits package, and focus on the individuals in your organization instead.

Companies looking to improve performance and retention should care about helping people get further faster towards what matters most in their life. We make this easy with tools to create personalized incentives, meaningful recognition & self-defined benefits that help their people unlock "sacred funds" towards their personal life goals.

Employee Motivation Simplified.

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