Gradual

GTM Strategy, Advisor to CEO

“Jill’s unmatched expertise in sales, community building, partnerships, and ecosystems has been pivotal in shaping our product vision and go-to-market strategy. Her unique insights and strategic connections have unlocked new opportunities and accelerated our growth.” – Jerry Li, CEO & Founder

Gradual is a community platform that centralizes all community experiences, driving product adoption and deeper customer relationships.

Strategic Advisor

Stage 2 Capital

Stage 2 Capital invests in early-stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth. We provide expertise and capital to help companies scale. 

Our LP base of 500+ seasoned GTM executives is matched with the strategic and operational needs of our portfolio companies. We involve our network in 100% of our investments, which often includes joining a portfolio company as an executive, board member, or advisor.

In 2018, I helped raise our $15 million Fund I from LPs at Asana, Atlassian, Box, Gong, HubSpot, Okta, Slack, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Toast, Twilio, Workday, Snowflake, Zoom, and many others.

$15m Fund I, LP, and Associate Member
$80m Fund II, LP
$150m Fund III, LP

GTM Advisor & LP

Klue

GTM Advisor

Competitive Enablement platform that combines market, competitor, and buyer insights.

Raised $81 million from top VCs including Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, Craft, and OMERS Ventures.

Advisor

Folloze

Advisor to the CEO

Enterprise customers include Adobe, Autodesk, DocuSign, Okta, VMware, UiPath, Cisco, and ServiceNow. 

Integration partners feature 6Sense, Demandbase, Marketo, Outreach, Qualified, and Salesforce.

nearbound.com

Assisted in the design, launch, and growth of the Nearbound category at Reveal. In June 2024, Reveal merged with Crossbeam, with the unified focus now on driving Ecosystem-Led Growth.

While outbound interrupts and inbound attracts, nearbound surrounds.

Nearbound is essential because buyer behavior has shifted from the ‘How’ economy to the ‘Who’ economy. Buyers now ask, ‘Who can help me solve X?’ and seek out trusted nodes in their network.

Strategy & Champion

Guild

Advisor to the B2B GTM team.

On a mission to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce. When opportunity is as evenly distributed as talent, everyone benefits. Individuals rise, companies grow, and our economy thrives.

In June 2022, Guild raised a $175 million Series F funding round at a $4.4 billion valuation. The round was led by prominent investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, Emerson Collective, General Catalyst, GSV, ICONIQ, Redpoint, Workday Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Oprah Winfrey.

GTM Advisor

LoopVOC

Voice of the Customer software for B2B SaaS Companies. Advisor to CEO & Founder.

Affinio

Member Board of Directors

Sales for Life

Advisor & Partner

Nudge.ai

Acquired by Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform.

Advisory Board Member & Investor

23 years in B2B SaaS Go-To-Market at Salesforce, Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo. Customer Obsessed. Partner Obsessed. Living-In-Market. LinkedIn Member #320,966

Majored in Customer. Minored in Go-To-Market. Live in-Market. 

24 years in B2B SaaS. Early employee at Salesforce (first 100), Eloqua (#13), HubSpot Advisor (2014-2016), Marketo (2018).

Love startups, especially category creators.

Born Sales. Bred Marketing. Building Partnerships. 

I spent six years in management consulting, 52 quarters in software sales at Salesforce and Eloqua, six years doing professional speaking, 2018 reporting to the CEO of Marketo (acquired by Adobe for $4.75B), Limited Partner "LP" and GTM Advisor at Stage 2 Capital and GTM Fund. 

I started investing in 2012 and maintain my personal portfolio of investments in sales and marketing technology startups. I also started advising startups in 2012 and joined my first Board of Directors in 2016. Four of the companies I've advised have had successful exits -- HubSpot, Accompany, DataRPM, and PartnerHacker. 

My work keeps me focused on the changing B2B buying environment and what revenue teams need to do to evolve their culture, skills, processes, data, and technology. 

****If you want to connect with me on LinkedIn, don't send a generic invite.****

Jill Rowley

Kevin J. Neary

Orcawise

As Co-founder and CEO at Orcawise I lead the following:

- our R&D team building custom LLM's to help enterprises be compliant with EU AI Act. 
- our client consulting team implementing Responsible AI services, tools and training. 
- new initiatives and contributions to the (RAI) Responsible AI ecosystem we foster.  
- speak at events on RAI topics like ethics, sustainability, the future of business & humanity.

Chief Executive

Consultancy on AI ethics, compliance, governance for organizations in health, education, finance and emerging tech.

Fractional Responsible AI Consultant

CeADAR Ireland

Industry Steering Board

IP Commercialization Committee

MassChallenge Switzerland

Mentor Expert Judge. 

Kevin Neary Events

AI Keynote Speaker 

The AI Roadmap

Digital selling ecosystem for entrepreneurs

Event Manager, Host

NovaUCD

Founder and CEO at UCD Campus Company 

Google for Startups EU

Google Scaling Program 

ORCA Media Group

During this time I contributed to the launch, scale and exit for multiple ventures. 

Staffing Firm Founder: Launched and led a staffing firm for seven years, focusing on innovative recruitment strategies and achieving 100%+ year-on-year growth for five years through to the end of the dot com era.

R&D Consulting - Orca Media: Spearheaded an R&D consulting business aiding entrepreneurs in commercializing academic research. Established key partnerships and facilitated 25 successful projects.

Orca BI: Co-founded and launched Orca BI, introducing Microsoft PowerPivot business intelligence solutions to SMBs in Europe, resulting in 1.2% market penetration in DAX niche within the first year.

Connectors Marketplace: Developed an online marketplace connecting micro-recruiters with hiring managers at US multinationals in Europe, enhancing recruitment efficiency by 30%.

Entrepreneurial Support: Advised and supported US-based disruptive ventures in "audience-participation filmmaking" and AI-driven "venture valuation modelling" and "investment strategies", contributing to 2 successful MVP launches before both ventures ultimately failed to cross-the-chasm due to time-to-market and product-market fit issues. 

Signal-Based Selling Engine: Innovated a signal-based selling engine for identifying buying signals and automating social selling messages, leading to a 36% increase in sales prospects for client that following social selling strategies..

Through these ventures, I've navigated the highs and lows of entrepreneurial endeavors in multiple sectors, resulting in some lucrative lifestyle businesses, pioneering disruptive models resulted in some disappointments as well as seamless exits achieved by integrating IP with more established companies.

Business Owner / Investor

Founder & CEO at Orcawise 🚀 AI Advisor 🌍 Investor 🎤 The AI Roadmap Series

Working with AI since 2003, and today totally focused on Responsible AI (RAI). Kevin Neary is a recognized leader and advisor in Responsible AI -  AI governance, compliance, and ethical AI practices. His expertise is technology compliance with the EU AI Act & US guidelines, with a particular focus on AI Risk management, Bias and Fairness compliance in information systems.

As the CEO of Orcawise, Kevin and team is the trusted partner to enterprises implementing RAI practices.

Beyond his role at Orcawise, Kevin is actively involved in advancing AI through positions as a board advisor at leading institutions, including Georgia College and State University's, AI Lab and CeADAR, Ireland's National Centre for Applied AI. CeADAR is one of Europe's top EDIHs (European Digital Innovation Hubs), dedicated to promoting AI adoption among SMEs and public sector organizations (PSOs). Kevin's contributions at CeADAR help make the benefits of AI accessible and actionable by businesses that want to transform and innovate responsibly and sustainably.

A sought-after speaker with The AI Roadmap event series in New York, Kevin educates business leaders on AI Literacy & Ethics. He serves as a mentor/expert/ judge at the global platform MassChallenge, Switzerland, and as a mentor at the AI Ecosystem Accelerator, NovaUCD, University College Dublin, supporting AI startups and the next generation of AI innovators.

🔔 Contribution to our AI community:

▶️ RAI Tools for Compliance 

Orcawise EU AI Act Chatbot - is a customizable LLM designed to help automate compliance with the EU AI Act 🔴 DM me for a demo. 
 
▶️ RAI Services

With two decades of experience, I lead a seasoned team offering consultancy and development services 🔴 DM me about RAI consultancy.

▶️ RAI Training Programs

Responsible AI Training (RAIT) - is a custom bootcamp for companies automating compliance with EU Ai Act 🔴 DM me to enquire about AI training for your team.

🔔 Commitment to the AI Community:

▶️ Steering Board Member at CeADAR, Europe’s top Digital Innovation Hub, facilitating AI adoption for SMEs and PSOs.

▶️ Advisory Board Member at Georgia College & State University, AI Lab

▶️ Organizer of “The AI Roadmap” Event Series to demystify AI technologies and their applications.

🔔 Keynote & Mentoring

Active mentor and keynote speaker, contributing globally from the US to EMEA.

🔴 Background

Previously, I was a business & system consultant (founder and staff member) with a track record of securing over $100 million in "new business". 

Follow me for updates and insights into Responsible AI!

Chief Executive leading AI Transformations with Advisory & Services for Entrepreneurs and  Marketers

Is RAG limited to small scale systems like < 10k documents

Kevin Neary

Global Chief AI Governance Officer | RAIMS™: AI Governance, Certification & Workforce Enablement | ISO 42001, EU AI Act, NIST | Serving US / EU / Ireland regulated enterprises | RAIMS Report (30K+ readers)

🟦 Hedge Fund Group (HFG) - Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Commodity Trading, Forex Traders

View group: 🟦 Hedge Fund Group (HFG) - Hedge Funds, Alternative Investments, Commodity Trading, Forex Traders

RAG is broken and nobody's talking about it. Stanford just exposed the fatal flaw killing every "AI that reads your docs" product.

It's called "Semantic Collapse", and it happens the moment your knowledge base hits critical mass. Your embedding model projects documents into 768D space. At small scale, semantically similar docs cluster together. Perfect.

But add enough documents and the space fills up. Clusters overlap. Distances compress. Everything looks "relevant." It matches a finite-time absorption boundary we observed in other ultra-fast decision systems.

The collapse is not semantic — it emerges when variance overwhelms the available decision window. Stanford's findings are brutal:

→ 87% precision drop at 50k+ documents
→ Semantic search worse than keyword search at scale
→ Adding more context makes hallucination WORSE, not better

We thought RAG solved hallucinations. It just hid them behind math.

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Excellent post on tokenization's democratization! #RAIMS governance ensures AI in valuation models and smart contracts remains ethical and compliant -which critical as these platforms scale to underserved markets. The WEF report's taxonomy would benefit from such standards. You thoughts on AI risk frameworks here?

Global Chief AI Governance Officer | RAIMS™: AI Governance, Certification & Workforce Enablement | ISO 42001, EU AI Act, NIST | Serving US/EU/Ireland regulated enterprises | RAIMS Report (30K+ readers)

The traditional world of #investing is becoming more democratic, thanks to blockchain-based technology.

Tokenization converts assets - from real estate to stocks - into digital #tokens which require less paperwork and can be traded around the clock.

Best of all, it opens up investing to new, underserved markets. Tokens allow expensive assets such as houses or companies to be split up into smaller shares, so investors can get started with low amounts. Its decentralized nature means that people in emerging markets can invest easily via their smartphones, while the increased liquidity helps those on low incomes who may need to access their investments.

The World Economic Forum has collaborated with Accenture to compile an insight report, Asset Tokenization in Financial Markets, which develops a taxonomy of #tokenization models and lays out a foundation for decision-making in this exciting new area. Read it here: https://ow.ly/AmGk50XGlE9

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