Experience & Highlights

The work, in context.

Three roles that shaped how I think about field marketing, community-led growth, and building systems that scale through people.

GoDaddyMost recent role

Director of Field Marketing

6 global regions · Distributed team of ICs and managers

Building field marketing systems that scale without adding headcount.

At GoDaddy, I owned field marketing strategy across six global regions — North America, EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and India. That's not a single playbook applied six times. Each market had different partner ecosystems, different customer behaviors, and different definitions of what 'pipeline' actually meant at the local level.

My job was to build frameworks that regional teams could own and execute — not to run everything centrally. That meant developing regional playbooks, partner enablement structures, and demand programs that could operate without constant oversight from the center. The measure of success was consistent pipeline contribution across markets, with lower reliance on centrally-run, higher-cost campaigns.

I also led a distributed team of both individual contributors and managers — people I'd never met in person, operating across time zones, with different levels of experience and different market contexts. Building alignment and momentum in that environment is a specific skill, and one I've been developing since 2012.

GoDaddyBuilt within GoDaddy role

The Champion Program

Partner-led pipeline · MDF-style funding · Self-sustaining growth system

A partner-led pipeline engine that compounds over time.

The Champion Program is the clearest example I have of what I mean when I say human connection scales. The idea was straightforward: instead of running all demand-gen centrally, build a structure that lets partners and customers run their own meetups and events — and fund the ones that perform.

Think MDF-style, but built around community trust rather than just budget allocation. Partners and customers who were already advocates got the resources and playbook to run local events in their own networks. The result was demand-gen that reached audiences a centrally-run campaign never would — because it came from someone they already trusted.

The program shifted investment toward the highest-performing partner activities, reduced cost per lead versus centrally-run events, and created a self-sustaining pipeline system that compounded over time without requiring proportional headcount growth. It's a repeatable model — not a one-time initiative.

FooPlugins LLCPre-GoDaddy

Co-Founder

200,000+ users · WordPress ecosystem · Community-led growth from zero

What community-led growth actually looks like from the inside.

Before GoDaddy, I co-founded FooPlugins — a WordPress plugin company that we scaled to over 200,000 users with deep roots in the web professional ecosystem. I didn't come to community-led growth as a theory. I built it from scratch, in a market where trust and reputation were the only real distribution channels.

That experience taught me what the difference between noise and signal actually looks like. It taught me how retention compounds when people genuinely trust what you've built. And it gave me a product instinct — an understanding of what moves people to adopt, advocate, and stick around — that a traditional marketing career path wouldn't have.

The FooPlugins experience is also why I'm skeptical of tactics that look good in a deck but don't move people. I've seen what works from the ground up, and it's almost always simpler and more human than the playbook suggests.

Earlier career

Where it started.

SiteLock SecuritySecurity industry, customer trust at scale

Fantech Inc.B2B technology, partner channels

Amazon / Brilliance AudioConsumer scale, content and community

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