Freelance (Self employed)

Fractional Product Marketing for Enterprise SaaS, Product Marketing Alliance (PMA) Expert-In-Residence and advisor to early stage founders.

Fractional Product Marketing and Advisor to Early stage founders

Product Marketing Alliance

Speaker and Expert-in-Resident

TheXPlace

Strategic Marketing and Product Marketing Advisor to CEO

Treasure Data

Boosted GTM Strategy for a Data Platform and ML Solutions in Cutthroat Market.

At Treasure Data, I redefined our product marketing strategy by adeptly positioning our data platform and machine learning capabilities as the “Customer Data Cloud” to win in the ultra-competitive Customer Data Platform space.

I took the reins at a pivotal moment, as Treasure Data expanded its product portfolio and sought new buyer segments. Under my leadership, our Product Marketing team grew to eight experts, laser-focused on a multifaceted strategy: product positioning, messaging, narrative crafting, launches, and competitive analysis. The metrics speak for themselves:
* Earned “Leaders” rankings in industry reports, thanks to our compelling positioning.
* Customer testimonials touted unprecedented ease-of-use and ROI improvements.
* Existing clients broadened their portfolios, while winning new logos at elevated rates.

Global Head of Product Marketing

Wrike

Growth Product Marketing leader, delivering 125% over objectives.
 
As the Head of Product Marketing at Wrike, a Vista Equity portfolio company, my collaboration with key stakeholders and focus on data-driven strategies doubled launch speeds and yielded business outcomes that exceeded our objectives by 125% within just two quarters.

In a SaaS environment, aligning product marketing with business goals isn't just a perk—it's essential. My efforts in fine-tuning messaging, understanding the competitive landscape, and optimizing the team contributed to timely and successful product launches and meaningful revenue growth.

I spearheaded the PMM function at Wrike, handpicking a team of top-tier talent to create a high-performance unit. Together, we revamped the go-to-market strategy—from product launches to targeted content creation—based on in-depth customer research and data-driven insights. Here are the metrics that back it up:
* Doubled the speed of product launches, breaking into new markets with finesse.
* Overachieved objectives by an astounding 125% in just two quarters.
* Garnered recognition and an invitation to join Vista's elite leadership program.

Head of Product Marketing

[24]7.ai

Messaging and GTM Strategy for AI-Driven Customer Acquisition Cloud and Engagement Cloud. Targeting F1000 enterprise contact centers and marketing leaders.

Responsible for optimizing the GTM of the AI-driven Customer Acquisition Cloud, next generation customer acquisition solutions spanning pride media bidding (search, social, shopping), omnichannel personalization and ML-driven dynamic creative optimization. 

I also led product marketing and the go-to-market (GTM) strategy for [24]7.ai's AI-powered contact center solutions which uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to decode customer intent and optimize customer experiences across all channels. 

In an era where customer experience (CX) is fragmented across multiple touchpoints, the need for intelligent, context-rich interactions is more crucial than ever. The solution portfolio uses [24]7 intent data gathered from processing over 5.5 billion customer interactions to deliver game changing results to marketing and CX leaders at Global 2000 enterprises.

Portfolio Product Marketing Manager- Customer Acquisition Cloud

Zoomdata

Turning Data Into Decisions: Messaging and GTM for Big Data Analytics. 

In my role as Director of Product Marketing Management (PMM) at Zoomdata, I drove messaging, product launches and lead conversion, leveraging my experience with analytics, databases, and other data technologies.

 We live in an age where data is abundant but insights remain scarce. My comprehensive experience with modern data sources like Hadoop, AWS S3, and Kafka is instrumental in targeting analytics and data managers that strive for actionable business intelligence, turning big data into strategic actions.
Go Deeper:
As Director of PMM, my key responsibilities and achievements encompass:
* Strategic Partnerships & GTM Initiatives: Managed high-stakes collaborations technology stack partners including Cloudera and SAP, as well as Cloud vendors like AWS to boost product awareness and adoption. 
* Cross-Functional Leadership: Navigated cross-disciplinary consensus among C-level stakeholders for narrative development, ensuring that Zoomdata's unique approach to streaming and visualizing big data was clearly and compellingly communicated.
* Content & Messaging: Created a diverse portfolio of assets ranging from whitepapers to self-service demo platforms, each tailored to demystify Zoomdata's complex server platform for a range of audiences—from business decision-makers to highly technical experts.

Director Product Marketing

Machine Zone

"As technology evolves, we find ourselves in a world where everyone and everything is connected. We are at a crossroads of creating the new realtime internet experience. As we unlock these barriers, possibilities are truly endless."

In the Sr. PMM role I led product marketing for MZ’s cloud-based, live data platform – Satori. Collaborated with leadership, product management, engineering and design to capture the vision in messaging, developed competitive analysis and analyst relations as well as identify verticals for GTM.

Domain expertise: analyst relationship and briefing, competitive intelligence, cross-discipline collaboration, messaging and positioning, simplifying complex concepts, crafting vision and demos, create marketing assets.

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

SAP ANZ

Owned IT Audience program (€650K budget) for data platform, mobile and analytics portfolios, contributing to more than 60% of the country’s revenue and achieving x4 market growth. Developed the marketing program to support aggressive business growth objectives across the portfolio. Responsible for pipeline progression: generating leads, account insights, increase engagement and raise awareness. Liaised with global product marketing, developing primary and secondary research to craft positioning, messaging, content as well as manage the launch of SAP’s data discovery solution.

Developed and executed marketing programs to overachieve sales and marketing objectives; launch SAP’s data discovery tool in APAC, GTM to grow analytics market share and share-of-wallet. Recognized for creating analytics pipeline, achieving 146%.

Domain expertise: Solution marketing, Product marketing, Lead generation, Pipeline management, Digital and Social marketing, Integrated marketing, Content marketing, bringing technology to life; Solutions: HANA, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Mobile, Data management.

Senior Marketing Solution Manager, IT Audience: Analytics, HANA, Data platform

Green Hat

Worked with multiple accounts in the IT and Finance sector to: 
- develop and progress pipeline with nurture programs; implement marketing automation to manage and measure the conversion of interest to sales 
- plan and execute integrated marketing programs to expand audience reach and generate leads across channels: email, digital, social and tele 
- develop personas and define positioning to guide content and program development

Account Director and Senior Marketing Consultant

Helping companies dig up the real "Why Us" for results. Enterprise, Sales-led Growth ($10M-$150M) for AI / Data / Analytics / Martech | Leading GTM & Product Marketing with Grit, Passion, Action | Follow for PMM insights

An accomplished Data-driven, Customer-led Product Marketing and GTM leader in high-growth B2B/SasS ($30M - $150M). Led category leadership, product launches, and GTM programs instrumental in doubling revenue within 18 months for SaaS and AI / Data products at high-growth startups and multinationals. Known for exceptional depth, business acumen, and nailing the narrative that builds PMM as a force multiplier. 

I'm open to fractional and full-time positions.

15+ years successfully engaging technical and business buying groups in CX, CDP, Martech, Adtech, Databases, Analytics, Life Sciences domains. 

My superpower?
Thinking differently through deep customer / market / product insights and analysis of what works to distill 'the why', challenge with data, and optimize GTM. I roll out repeatable GTM strategies to teams of 100s, making selling easier, marketing stickier, and customers happier.

- I’m a trusted thought partner to sales and product strategy teams - inspiring cross-functional collaboration and influencing with technical depth and a deep understanding of the sales cycle.
 
- I prioritize monetization across the entire SaaS lifecycle - launch, adoption, renewal, and expansion by bridging market, effort, and internal assumptions. 

Outcomes include:  

* Category Leadership repositioning elevated awareness, demand, MRR / NRR, and positioning as 'leader' in analyst reports.  

* Multi-product sales motion -  shift to a platform sales motion x2 deal size and x3 new logos.  

* Rapid New Market Entry / Product Launches - optimized product launches to hit greater revenue, quicker. Guiding outcomes from PRD to research, planning, and cross-functional execution.  

* Competitive Differentiation boosted conversions with standout messaging for marketing and sales. 

* World Class PMM Engine as a player-coach, built and led PMM teams (8) as a force multiplier and Customer SMEs. 

I love taking initiative and driving projects forward, often beyond the initial scope. What I don’t know, I figure out, by combining systematic logic, creativity, and empathy. I bring a smiling, let's do good attitude. 

CORE SKILLS:
Go-to-market Strategy | Positioning | Messaging | Personas | Content | Thought leadership | Product Launch | Category leadership | Competitive & Market Research | Customer & Market research | Pitch Decks, Sales Plays, Sales Enablement | Analyst Relations | Win/Loss | SaaS packaging | VOC | VOS Customer marketing | Partner marketing | Leadership & Talent Management

Renat Gersch

Sapiens

VP Cluster Executive, Business & Professional Services

TEOCO

•	Account Management of a strategic Security account (Government of Israel), growing the account by 220% consecutively in 11 years, expanding TEOCO’s group – Project and Product Management, Solution Architecture, R&D, QA, DBA, Integration and Support in Telecom and Big Data domains
•	Manage Sales in the Israeli Telecom, Security, Defense and Public Sector
•	Lead TEOCO’s Business Development with partners in the RAN domain (Radio Access Network) by collaborating with Sales Directors and Product Group to drive new business expansion

Head of Account Management, Sales and Business Development

•	Account Management of a strategic Security Account (Government of Israel), increasing business by 25% and driving expansion into new domains during this period
•	Lead TEOCO’s Business Development and Sales with Amdocs in the Service Assurance domain and Cognyte in the RAN (Radio Access Network) domain, resulting in increased revenue and successful new business expansions 
•	Orchestrate multiple large Professional Services projects in Europe
•	Manage accounts Profit and Loss (P&L) while maintaining healthy margins

Senior Director, Account Management and Business Development

•	Directly manage project managers responsible for deploying TEOCO’s products in the region while implementing matrix management of cross-functional teams including Professional Services, Product R&D and Customer Success
•	Lead the technical aspect and the solution design during the pre-sale phase of existing and new products while coordinating the Marketing and Products experts
•	Drive high customer satisfaction and significantly contribute to peak sales 
•	Lead TEOCO’s Business in the Israeli Market – Sales, Delivery and Support

Director, Services, Delivery and Account Management

Comverse

•	Lead the Delivery Project Management (scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and quality maintenance) as well as post-delivery (Customer Success / Support) and Pre-Sales of Comverse  Products in the region 
•	Drive high customer satisfaction and significantly contribute to the sales growth and substantial profitability

Region Services Director Israel & Balkans

Comverse Technology, Inc.

•	2003-2008:  Project Manager for Pelephone, a strategic account in Comverse,  in EMEA Customer Facing Group
•	2001-2003:  Project Manager for customers in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in APAC Group
•	Received excellence awards for significant contribution and great performance in 2002 and 2004

Project Manager

Israeli Military Intelligence

1995-1997, 1999-2001: Director of Industrial and Management Engineering and Computing Department , Captain acting as Major
•	Manage highly professional Industrial and Management engineers dealing with managerial information systems, quality management, logistics, infrastructure projects,  methodologies and marketing plans
•	Provide strategic planning and consulting to the Intelligence Corps headquarters  and to various Intelligence Corps units, significantly improving work efficiency and reducing total cost
1997-1999: ERP Project Officer
•	Lead implementation of the ERP Project in the Intelligence Corps facilitating seamless coordination between the software team and 500 end users
•	Manage all the ERP project’s aspects in the Intelligence Corps Headquarters, including software design and development, hardware,  infrastructure, deployment and training
Selected as the Division’s Outstanding Officer	 in 1998

Director of Industrial & Management Engineering and Computing Department

The Leon Recanati Graduate School, Tel-Aviv University

•	Project Manager, providing consulting and guidance to a team of students from Tel-Aviv University, Wharton school (U.S.A.) and York University (Canada)
•	Provide expert guidance in executing specific marketing research and developing a business plan for Israeli Hi-Tech companies aiming to penetrate the North American market

Teaching assistant in the Multinational Marketing Partnership (Wharton-York-Recanati)

Business, Sales and Delivery Executive. 
Specialties: Account Management, Sales, Business Development and Project Management; 
Vast experience in building & growing revenues, in Customers Success and in management & control of large-scale projects (millions of dollars, tens of people) in a global environment; Outstanding customer relationship; Proven accomplishments in exceeding customers expectations and expanding business; 
Excellent interpersonal, presentations and communications skills.

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