Alec Romano
Augmented
GTM Leader

Alec Romano

Full-stack GTM leadership and AI-native revenue architecture; building B2B and D2C commercial engines that scale pipeline exponentially on lean, high-output teams.

About Me

Every commercial organization is navigating the same squeeze right now: acquisition costs are stubborn, buyer discovery has splintered across dark social and AI answers, and the board expects steeper growth on leaner headcount. Traditional GTM teams struggle under that pressure because they are built around narrow silos; when pipeline slows down, marketing points at sales execution, sales blames lead quality, and leadership is left refereeing specialists and agencies who only see their own slice of the funnel. I came up through sales before spending over a decade hands-on across the entire GTM stack: demand gen, paid media, technical SEO, copywriting, 3D and UI design, CRO, and RevOps. Because I have personally carried the quota, written the copy, built the assets, and wired the CRM schemas, nobody has to translate between the boardroom and the keyboard. I know where revenue actually leaks, what an honest timeline looks like, and how to get cross-functional teams pulling toward the same unit economics.

When I step in to lead or rebuild a GTM motion, I treat the commercial org like a software architecture. I have no patience for throwaway campaigns that rent a temporary traffic spike and leave zero equity behind; every dollar and engineering hour has to advance multiple objectives at once. If we are structuring a product or account data layer, we build it so that the same normalized schema simultaneously powers programmatic SEO and GEO, feeds dynamic creative variants, and sharpens lifecycle triggers. If we launch an enterprise ABM program, the outreach is wired to capture immediate SQLs while feeding objection telemetry back into top-of-funnel positioning. Designing GTM as a set of compounding, interoperable systems is how you handle a tenfold jump in volume without a corresponding surge in payroll or agency bloat.

Over the last two years, integrating production AI into that systems architecture has completely changed what a lean team can put on the board. Most companies are still bolting generic LLM wrappers onto broken workflows and wondering why they get slop. The real leverage comes from auditing every step of the revenue engine to decide which human functions should be replaced outright by autonomous agentic pipelines and which ones require human-in-the-loop augmentation; then selecting the exact model and toolchain for each job. In practice, that means deploying multi-agent orchestration, MCP integrations, and deterministic scripts to take list enrichment, intent scoring, and CRM hygiene completely off human plates, while equipping operators with RAG-grounded context bases, semantic vector search, and fine-tuned reasoning or diffusion models to multiply their speed on strategy, creative direction, and deal execution.

I care about putting points on the board, and I have been around long enough to know that the market will humble anyone who falls in love with their own assumptions. I run GTM on candor, clean attribution, and a willingness to kill any pet project the moment the cohort data says it isn't paying back. If you are looking for a commercial leader who understands executive expectations and can personally architect the teams and AI-native machinery required to hit them, let's talk.

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My Resume

Across B2B enterprise and high-velocity D2C organizations, I have owned both the commercial target and the technical infrastructure required to hit it; scaling a proprietary D2C storefront from zero to $6.2M in annual revenue, generating $8M+ in marketplace sales, delivering 16:1 ROAS on enterprise ABM programs, and engineering the AI workflows, relational data schemas, and RevOps pipelines behind those outcomes.

Capabilities
Education
2010 - 2014
Stony Brook University
Bachelor's Degree, Creative Writing
Experience
2026 - Present
SyndiScale
Founder
  • Authored the category thesis for Vehicular Growth as a Service (VGaaS), a one-to-many outcome delivery model that brings enterprise-grade marketing, sales, customer success, and revenue operations (RevOps) to the local trade sector
  • Began development of an AI-native platform that captures domain expertise, distills it into human-led GTM strategies, and uses LLMs to syndicate them for thousands of geographically separate businesses
2024 - Present
Doliven Group
Fractional Marketing Director
  • Executed a highly targeted Account-Based Marketing (ABM) initiative for a renowned aerospace company, increasing engagement within top-tier defense and commercial aviation accounts by 43%
  • Guided research and digital strategy for a major US political campaign, maximizing acquisition of voters and donors through data-driven outreach
  • Intensively studied IA theory and HSI ergonomics to engineer next-generation systems and workflows, embedding probabilistic models that multiplied personal throughput and methods of managing, instructing, and equipping cross-functional teams
  • Generated $8M+ for a growing Amazon 3P auto parts vendor, overseeing paid media strategy across Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, DSP, and Google Ads
  • Lifted Amazon detail page conversion rates by 61.4%, CTR by 43.3%, and AOV by 14.9% while cutting return rates by 31.2% through high-clarity 3D fitment diagrams and image stack enhancements validated with rigorous A/B testing
  • Integrated enterprise PIM with custom SPAPI connectors and an automated re-submission engine, driving a 490%+ increase in listing approvals, improving catalog accuracy to 94.7% for 4,500+ SKUs, and eliminating 80+ weekly hours of manual editing
  • Engineered relational automotive database schema and taxonomy mapping millions of platform-to-part pairings across shared mechanical chassis, cutting time to first product click by 42% and bounce rate by 63% on owned e-commerce channels
  • Architected a parameterized Creative Operations Framework and Adobe ExtendScript automation suite, cutting asset production turnaround time by 73% and driving a 276% surge in creative output across thousands of catalog SKUs
2023 - 2024
AEM
Senior Marketing Communications Manager
  • Operated Central Semiconductor's marketing team during M&A, holding key metrics within 5% of pre-merger benchmarks throughout a six-month integration phase
  • Devised the Reach New Heights and Yesterday's Trust cross-channel campaigns, achieving ROAS of 7:1 and 6:1 respectively in competitive B2B markets
  • Executed print campaigns inside DENA, Electronics Sourcing, and Tech Briefs magazines, driving a 27% uplift in targeted segment penetration
  • Led trade show strategy across 3 continents, increasing qualified booth conversations by 32% and generating 250+ SQLs in aggregate
2021 - 2023
Fortem Technologies
Senior Marketing Manager
  • Launched the Nothing Comes Close integrated marketing campaign, which achieved a 16:1 ROAS and generated the highest volume of RFIs in company history
  • Rebuilt the company website from the ground up, increasing organic session volume by 412%, on-site conversion rate by 78%, and content marketing output by 97% within the first six months post-launch
  • Leveraged first-party data to power a custom scoring and routing model in Salesforce CRM that ranked leads by intent, improved MQL-to-SQL by 31%, and cut average speed-to-lead from four days to under 18 hours
  • Spearheaded SEO discoverability, compounding quarterly gains in impressions (37%+), clicks (23%+), and organic lead capture (25%+) every quarter without exception
  • Facilitated CVC and Series-B fundraising by developing a repeatable system for photorealistic and diagrammatic 3D assets, taking pitch decks to a whole new level
  • Secured placement in Forbes, Reuters, The New York Times, and Associated Press with a mix of earned media and sponsored content, raising interest among high-value corporate and government contacts
  • Led joint demand generation and co-marketing programs with partner teams at Toshiba and Rohde and Schwarz, opening qualified account introductions in three international defense markets
2018 - 2021
NutriGold
Marketing Manager
  • Drove omnichannel performance marketing, transforming a five-figure digital media budget into a 180% YOY increase in D2C acquisition
  • Engineered the company's first D2C e-commerce site, scaling the proprietary storefront from $0 to $6.2M in annual revenue while simultaneously expanding Amazon 1P sales
  • Architected a lead-capture strategy converting paid traffic into an owned audience of 90,000+ opted-in contacts, dropping blended CAC by 24% over a two-year period by reducing reliance on paid channels
  • Generated $310K in quarterly incremental revenue with lifecycle campaigns centered on up-selling, cross-selling, and coupon sequences to increase AOV and retention
  • Scaled a first-party 'Subscribe & Save' program to $3.4M in ARR, transforming occasional buyers into a predictable, high-LTV source of recurring revenue
  • Directed owned media that captured top SERP rankings for medium-KD, high-intent nutraceutical queries, ultimately dropping average CPL by 22%
  • Executed retail activation campaigns in brick-and-mortar stores, deploying die-cut signage that increased channel partner orders by up to 28% during promotions
  • Introduced an influencer and affiliate program across wellness, fitness, and parenting circles, driving $400K+ in attributed revenue and securing loyal customers at a 38% lower CAC than ad groups with the highest ROI
2016 - 2018
NutriGold
Graphic Designer
  • Designed packaging for 80+ SKUs across three product lines in D2C and retail formats
  • Contributed substantially to revised brand standards, creating a new design system called Fresh Expressions that anchored the company's channel expansion for years
  • Developed in-house 3D rendering capabilities that eliminated approximately $55K in annual photography costs and reduced new product launch timelines by 62%
  • Executed high-volume digital asset production for paid media and lifecycle marketing campaigns, utilizing multivariate creative testing frameworks to optimize direct-response performance across platforms and touchpoints
  • Rapidly transitioned from creative execution to strategic growth, taking early ownership of owned media and analytics to associate content with measurable revenue outcomes
2015 - 2016
Voxx International
Communication Designer
  • Applied personal experience in consumer electronics retail to help strengthen brand positioning as well as refine B2B and B2C messaging
  • Designed trade show collateral for both CES and SEMA, encompassing booth graphics and product booklets that streamlined sales engagements
  • Crafted impactful print materials for both sales enablement and retail support, including sell sheets, brochures, and point-of-sale displays
  • Owned marketing copy for a multitude of automotive technology brands including HomeLink, Rosen, Code Alarm, ADAS, and more
  • Contributed to catalogs, packaging, owner's manuals, and other deliverables for subsidiaries in consumer hardware and industrial electronics verticals
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My Projects

Selected commercial initiatives, revenue systems, and technical builds. Each project was architected to solve multiple business bottlenecks at once; spanning paid and organic acquisition, CRO, programmatic creative automation, relational data modeling, and AI-augmented RevOps.

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