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Tom is a B2B Marketing and Startup Leader at Cold.inc. He has more than 12 years of go-to-market leadership experience at B2B SaaS companies, including SVP Marketing at UserZoom and VP Marketing at Sedna. He helps founders pressure-test go-to-market decisions, focus marketing strategy, and move product launches forward.

Based on 6 verified mentee reviews

  • Reviewers often praise his thoughtful questions and help identifying the most important priorities for marketing and projects.
  • Several reviewers value his practical advice for overcoming launch blockers, understanding startup marketing, and filling career knowledge gaps.
  • Mentees describe him as patient, supportive, and energizing in conversations.

About

I’m not a marketing expert.

I’m a B2B operator who understands marketing—and how startups actually work.

For 12+ years I've led GTM at high-growth B2B SaaS companies. As SVP Marketing at UserZoom, I scaled ARR from $25M to $80M over three years, generating $18M in marketing pipeline each quarter. Before that, I built the marketing function at WhatUsersDo from scratch, leading it through to acquisition. More recently as VP Marketing at Insight Partners-backed Sedna, I built a high-performing team that took marketing's share of new-business pipeline from 10% to 35%.

My real job wasn’t ads or campaigns. It was helping CEOs and teams make better decisions when the stakes were high.

I work with people who don't have a senior operator in the business to sanity-check their thinking (usually the decisions involving people, money and direction).

- Founders: making the big go-to-market calls—positioning, channels, who to hire—with no one experienced to pressure-test them.
- Marketers: the lone or first-time in-house hire, pulled in ten directions and unsure what to ignore and how to progress beyond fire-fighting

Most people come to me when they've hit an inflection point, and realise the answer isn't another podcast or AI-generated playbook. They need to distil their options and move the hell forward with confidence.

I provide strategic perspective, operator judgement and decisive clarity. I'm not your boss, your therapist, or a consultant who'll drown you in slides. But I will tell you the truth and keep you focused on what matters.

If you’re looking for hands-on execution or tactical asset reviews, that’s not me.

If you want clearer thinking, better decisions, and momentum in the right direction, let’s talk.

What mentees say

5 out of 5 stars

Tom is a great mentor!

Tobias

Tobias

Lite Plan • 9 months

5 out of 5 stars

Tom is fantastic. He forced me to face some realities about what I was avoiding, what my blockers were, to launching my product. Then gave me the tools to overcome those. I'm still a work in progress but already feel a huge weight lifted about getting things moving. Exactly what I needed and not at all what I was expecting. Instead of telling me to do a, b, c he enabled me to figure out why I wasn't seeing what a, b and c were for myself. Also how to properly instruct my employees for what exactly I wanted. This is more like executive coaching than giving a recipe for success, I'm MORE THAN SATISFIED with what he provides. Great work Tom, looking forward to our next talk.

Steve

Steve

Standard Plan • 1 month

5 out of 5 stars

Tom has been an incredible mentor! Incredibly patient, always asks good questions and has helped me center our marketing strategy around our core values, so it feels incredibly well-aligned with how I want to work.

Simon

Simon

Standard Plan • 6 months

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