Joining us today in the Sky Lounge is Alan Gold, a marketing and sales strategist with decades of experience in M&A, startups, and growth strategy. Alan has been on both sides of the table—helping companies scale, navigating acquisitions, and leading turnarounds. From being part of the launch team for Wi-Fi technology to working on speech recognition and AI-powered business tools, he’s seen how markets evolve and what it really takes to stay ahead.
We dive into:
Plus, Alan shares hilarious and wild travel stories, including a baboon with an attitude and getting detained in Colombia.
If you’re in startups, consulting, M&A, or just trying to grow a business, this one’s for you.
Alan’s a veteran of the B2B marketing world, having been an executive in startups, international public companies, high-growth technology and services companies, leading marketing and sometimes both marketing and sales efforts.
Over my career, I have launched new technologies that are integral to our daily lives, repositioned companies to take advantage of new markets, and been involved in M&A activities on both sides of the process. I’ve worked in many different industries, including software, supply chain, medical and pharma, healthcare applications and services, as well as telecom and AI-driven planning software.
Email: alan.gold@techcxo.com
Phone: 978-886-1910
Tales from the SkyLounge is a podcast where we take you on a journey through the world of business, consulting, and venture investing. In each episode, we gather in our virtual sky lounge, high above the hustle and bustle of the everyday world, to hear stories from the people who are shaping the future of these industries. From entrepreneurs who are disrupting the status quo, consultants who are helping companies solve their biggest challenges, and investors who are making bets on the next big thing.
Todd Merrill is an experienced software executive who typically assists clients as a fractional or interim CTO and CISO as a partner at TechCXO. He has served in a series of companies as a C-Level executive focused on leveraging the Cloud to bring SaaS offerings to market.