Devin Bramhall

DEVIN

I will help you overcome obstacles and achieve your goals faster - devinbramhall.com
- Scale your agency and increase profitability
- Increase marketing ROI
- Improve output from your own leadership

I’m not a talking head. I’ve executed at every level from IC to manager to VP and CEO and use my hands-on experience to identify opportunities for your company and set up a foundation that you can easily maintain and build on.

For over 15 years, I’ve helped startups, agencies and enterprise companies grow by building repeatable, scalable frameworks in marketing and agency operations that expedite progress toward their growth targets. 

Cisco, Google, Wistia, Saasworks, Help Scout, Animalz

Services include:
- Growth strategy 
- Building your first marketing function
- Hiring
- Team structure & KPIs
- Reporting

Growth Advisor

Don't Say Content

A podcast for marketing leaders and business executives. We use our combined 20+ years of experience to explore the challenges and opportunities behind industry hype to bring listeners fresh perspective, strategy & insights. Our goal: Increase the business impact of marketing by creating shared understanding of its purpose and outcomes among marketing leaders, founders/CEOs & others in the C-suite. From business and marketing strategy to hiring and talent, weekly episodes inspire and reinvigorate hundreds of leaders who tune in & engage every week.

Podcast Co Host

Animalz

Highlights
- Achieved +3x revenue growth in 2 years at 19% profit margin
- Built C-suite team 
- Grew team from 18 to 130 people
- Diversified product line
- Attracted biggest names in tech including Google, Amazon, Slack, Spotify, Facebook & more

Chief Executive Officer

• Grew revenue: 33% 2018 • 57% 2019
• Grew team from 18-50, evolved org structure & roles to improve content marketing function
• Advised on customer content strategy including Google, GoDaddy, Wistia 
• Updated Animalz brand across messaging, look/feel, and product positioning

VP of Marketing

Self-employed marketing and communications consultant

Freelance Marketing Consultant

Help Scout

Developed strategy to grow traffic and customer acquisition. Managed a team of content marketers and collaborated with design and development teams on campaigns, website, and brand initiatives. Accomplishments included:

- Grew website traffic from ~300k to 430k monthly unique visitors
- Created goals-driven content strategy focused on traffic and subscriber acquisition.
- Managed content partnerships and led strategic partnerships with Support Driven, the largest community for customer support pros.
- Managed brand awareness including PR, conferences, and community management 
- Launched customer service education platform, HelpU (https://www.helpscout.net/helpu/), to increase customer acquisition and grow brand awareness.

Director of Content

Boston Content

Boston Content is the largest community group and career development resource for content marketers in Boston, founded in 2011 by Jay Acunzo and Arestia Rosenberg. 

As Executive Director:

- Led 6-person executive committee in charge of events, membership, and sponsorship  
- Oversaw development of first volunteer program
- Grew membership 100%
- Launched "Content Marketer to Watch" award
- Created Boston Content’s blog posting 2x/week
- Developed marketing “Jobs” page and weekly jobs email to our 1,200+ members
- Doubled event programming, attendance and sponsorship program

Executive Director

The Master Slam

The Master Slam is a story slam-style debate that turns the traditional panel discussion into an exciting evening of live performance. Held four times a year and covering a variety of topics from Startups, Tech, Marketing/Advertising, Education  and more, the Master Slam is the new way for anyone passionate about their industry to flex their intellectual muscles in a fun, creative environment. http://www.themasterslam.com/

Founder

Alignable

Lead community engagement strategy through ongoing research, relationship building, testing and analysis to discover what small businesses need and how to incorporate that into our marketing strategy and product.

Marketing Manager

Shareaholic, Inc.

Product Marketing Manager

Springpad

Increased engagement among Springpad's 5M users through unique content marketing campaigns, including a live Google Hangouts series focusing on creative ways to use our app for organization and project management. Developed strategic partnerships with influential bloggers and brands to drive brand awareness and user acquisition.

Content Marketing Manager

Managed community of over 5 million users, providing technical support and content for all support/help pages as well as in-app to improve user comprehension of the Springpad's robust features on all platforms.

Streamlined customer support using new CRM tools. Curated engaged community of users to help evangelize and promote Springpad. Executed large and small scale beta testing and user feedback sessions of new features.

Happiness Specialist

Co-host: Don't Say Content. Marketing Advisor. Agency Growth Strategist. Former CEO of Animalz.

As a growth advisor, I bring over 15 years of marketing & leadership expertise at startups, agencies, and large corporations. 

I am the former CEO of Animalz, the leading content marketing agency for B2B SaaS companies, where I successfully grew revenue 3x in two years to nearly $12M.

I am also a fervent community builder and previously served as the Executive Director of Boston Content, the largest community group and career development resource for content marketers in Boston. During my 2-year tenure, I more than doubled membership and revenue from sponsorships and programming. 

Storytelling is at the root of my passion for marketing. I founded The Master Slam, a poetry slam-style debate about startups and tech. I am also a TEDx organizer and speaker trainer and have competed in several storytelling competitions. Additionally, I created an incredibly popular General Assembly workshop called "How to Use Storytelling to Get What You Want," which is still taught today.

Your CEO doesn’t hate marketing. They hate that you can't prove that it works.

I’ve sat on both sides of this table.
As the marketer who lost the room pitching “brand.”
As the CEO who had to choose what to fund.

Here’s the pattern. Execs don’t fund activities. They fund de-risked outcomes.
And when you speak marketing, you sound risky.

Here's what I mean: Two leaders pitch the same plan.

Leader A: “We need thought leadership content to build trust.”
Leader B: “We are losing deals in month seven because trust shows up too late. This content builds trust in month two. That cuts our close time nearly in half.”

Leader A got a nod and a freeze.
Leader B got the budget and two hires.

Same plan. Different frame.

Here’s the translation guide.

“Brand awareness” → “We are invisible to in-market buyers.”
“Thought leadership” → “We cut months out of the sales cycle.”
“Community building” → “Customers close deals for us.”
“Content strategy” → “Prospects show up already convinced.”

The work doesn’t change. The way you sell it does.

When I missed, it wasn’t because the strategy was wrong. It was because I made my CEO choose between understanding my plan and trusting me with their budget. They picked what they understood.

So ask the uncomfortable question. If your CEO doesn’t get it, is that their problem or yours?

Stop defending your strategy. 
Start translating their risk into your outcomes.

If you are done with tactics and incremental progress and want systems that compound, follow along. I wrote a book about that. Link in profile.

Chief Growth Officer [Fractional]. Author: “B2B Content Marketing Strategy” out now on Amazon

Gwen Lafage 🐝

VP Marketing, Global Brand and Content @ Sinch 🚀 I B2b tech marketing leader, brand builder

Why do you need a strong brand? 
Because it is the only true differentiator that can’t be copied. And yes that’s also true for b2b companies. 

Think about it: products and features are all becoming the same. Sure you can be a little cheaper or a little better. But why not use your brand to win instead? Your brand is your future-proof competitive edge. 
A strong brand means recognition, credibility, trust, loyalty. 

And that’s why I’ve dedicated my career to building strong brands. BRAVE brands. Brands that connect with people. Brands that dare to be different. Brands with strong beliefs. Brand that build new categories and become their kings. 

I personally believe in the power of communication and creativity. I believe in doing things with passion and taking risks. I spent 10 years in the best Ad agencies in London and Paris, working on the world's leading consumer brands. In my late 20s, I traveled the world for one year. In my 30s, I opened an art gallery in San Francisco before going back to marketing and branding for B2B tech companies in Silicon Valley. In 2017 I moved to Sweden to open the European office of a b2b tech creative agency. 
In 2023 I came back to the US to continue to lead the brand growth of one of the fastest growing tech company in the world, Sinch. 

I’m now VP of Brand at Sinch, where I lead global brand strategy, though-leadership, communications, global events and creative direction for one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world. 

Bottom line: when I want to do something, I make it happen. 
I apply this ‘can-do-attitude’ to everything I do. 

I am always looking for new challenges, opportunities, and learnings, and I love networking and sharing knowledge with other professionals in my field.
Feel free to get in touch.

Specialties: B2B Marketing, Marketing Strategy, B2B SaaS Marketing, Data-driven Marketing, Growth Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Digital Marketing, Branding, Messaging, Content Marketing, Demand Generation, Account-Based Marketing, Engagement Marketing & Events, Project Management, Client Relationship Management, New Business, Campaign Management, Leadership, Operational Excellence.

Interests: B2B Marketing, Brands, Design, Technology, SAAS, Startups, Growth, Women in Tech, Green Tech, Sustainability, Meditation.

Executive member

The Pavilion is a private, invitation-only community of sales and marketing executives at growth-focused companies.

Most marketers kill their own brands out of boredom!
And I say this with love… 
because I’m absolutely guilty of it. 😅

I come from creative agencies. 
I love new, fresh, bold ideas.
And creativity is essential. Because if you don’t cut through the noise, you’re invisible, right?

But here’s the true paradox:
Marketers get bored of their brand long before the market even notices it.
Inside the company, we see everything on repeat.
Outside, most people barely see it once.
And we’re the ones pushing to change it.

And the research is painfully clear 😬 
Brands grow through consistency and repetition,
not constant reinvention every time we get tired of our own assets. 

The truth is uncomfortable. The tension is so real for me!! 
What should we templatise so we can scale?
What should we reinvent so we can stand out?
Where do we stay consistent?
Where do we push creatively?

Honestly, I don’t have the perfect answer.
Just a belief that strong brands sit in the messy middle:
creative enough to stand out,
consistent enough to be remembered.
They’re built by surviving the tension between creativity and consistency.

Some days that inspires me.
Other days it drives me crazy.
But that’s the real work.

Anyone else feeling this too?
How do you balance this brand building paradox?

🎬 I declare Predictions 2026 season open!! 
Does our teaser video gives you "Succession" vibes too?? 
(So for 2026 are you feeling more Kendall or Shiv? 😉)

So you would probably guess it, at the core of our predictions, 
we have AI, AI, AI...🤖 💫 

But, not AI for the sake of AI.
Not chatbot hype.
But real, fluid, human-feeling conversations… everywhere.

✅ AI making conversation volume explode.
✅ AI agents getting smarter.
✅ Voice AI handling nuance.
✅ Inboxes becoming intelligent.
✅ Channels evolving by region.
✅ Trust becoming a design principle.
2026 is really shaping up to be the year conversational messaging finally becomes the default, 
and still, none of this replaces the human touch.

AI accelerates everything, but we don’t stop craving connection.
In fact, the more AI enters our lives, the more we expect brands to sound like people!

That’s the heart of our Sinch 2026 predictions 💛 

And I think what's true for our digital communications predictions is true across marketing too
> How do we scale conversations without losing authenticity?

(And now I'm curious:
When you watched our teaser video, did you feel the "Succession" energy too? 🤣  Is AI making you excited or nervous?)

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