Scott Brown Email & Phone Number

Portola Valley, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

At Cervin Ventures, I lead the Platform initiatives and team empowering our early-stage, B2B technology startups to find product market fit and scale revenue efficiently. My role focuses on three critical pillars:1) Accelerating Portfolio Growth: I work closely with founders and leadership teams to optimize their sales and marketing strategies, build high-performing organizations, and drive sustainable growth through playbooks and bespoke engagements.2) Scaling Platform Services: I oversee Cervin’s suite of value-added services, including firm marketing, business development support, recruiting, market research, and data-driven deal sourcing (SDR) support for the investment team.3) Driving Operational Excellence: From investor relations to fundraising and portfolio performance management, I ensure Cervin’s operations are streamlined and insights-driven, delivering transparency and actionable intelligence for our investment team, LPs and portfolio companies alike.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

As a limited partner in GTMFund, I support portfolio companies with strategic guidance on go-to-market (GTM) strategies. I focus on empowering founders with actionable insights and best practices to accelerate growth and scale effectively. Please note: I do not accept unsolicited investment opportunities for GTMFund.

New York, Ny, Us

I spearheaded marketing, demand generation, and channel partnerships for this Series A fintech that leveraged AI and machine learning to revolutionize private capital transactions. My efforts focused on building a scalable lead-generation engine to drive growth and position Hum as a market leader in connecting startups with institutional investors through performance-based financial insights.During my tenure, Hum empowered customers to close over $600 million in venture debt and equity transactions, generating $10s of millions in revenue for Hum.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I led marketing and communications for Sapphire Ventures as the firm grew from $2 to $8 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM) and added the Sapphire Sport fund strategy. My role focused on building and amplifying Sapphire’s brand, positioning it as a premier growth-stage venture firm.Beyond scaling the firm's brand, during COVID I provided strategic marketing consulting to Sapphire's 80+ portfolio companies, helping them with corporate narratives, developing demand generation plans and delivering sustainable growth. Additionally, I helped develop and foster the #OpenLP community, strengthening the connections between Limited Partners, GPs and venture ecosystems worldwide.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I led global product marketing for Quantcast, a Series C startup specializing in AI-powered audience targeting, advertising and content monetization solutions. Managing a cross-functional team of 10 across the US and EMEA, I drove initiatives to enhance product positioning, improve go-to-market alignment with sales, and deliver impactful sales enablement programs.During my tenure, I spearheaded a comprehensive overhaul of the product-launch process, introducing greater transparency and operational efficiency to accelerate sales and foster cross-team collaboration. I concluded my tenure following a change in senior leadership.

London, Gb

As interim VP of Marketing, I revitalized marketing and communications for this London-based Series C startup, helping develop a growth narrative that contributed to its successful acquisition. My responsibilities spanned demand generation, content marketing, public relations, and product marketing, with a focus on driving sales opportunities and community engagement.• Crafted a Compelling Corporate Narrative: Developed a cohesive and differentiated story that integrated Skimlinks' products, elevating its positioning with press, customers, and investors.• Launched a Data-Driven Content Program: Leveraged Skimlinks’ unique insights to deliver an impactful content program that contributed to a doubling of year-over-year revenue in the same time period.• Aligned Growth and Content Strategies: Streamlined marketing efforts to achieve a 30% increase in customer accounts while reducing churn, driving sustained growth and customer retention.

I led development of Facebook's high-touch customer programs for its largest advertising clients and agencies. • Led development of the "Personalized Marketing @ Scale" messaging used by leadership to articulate Facebook's product strategy including the acquisition of Instagram, WhatsApp and Atlas. • Built out Facebook's Executive Briefing Center program globally. Revenue attributable to this program led to accelerated investment in physical centers in Menlo Park; New York; Dublin, Ireland; Sao Paulo and Singapore.• Executive producer of Facebook's global sales kick-off for for 2 years. This event grew more than 30% YoY with more than 5,000 attendees.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for go-to-market and market development activities across Google’s DoubleClick advertiser platform. Responsibilities included marketing strategy, product marketing, and messaging/positioning of the DoubleClick Digital Marketing integrated platform to enterprise clients.• Relaunched the DoubleClick brand in June 2012 with the introduction of the DoubleClick Digital Marketing suite (now Google Marketing Platform). • Partnered with Sales to shift to solutions-selling.• Produced DoubleClick’s high-touch programs, including the Client Advisory Board and DoubleClick sales events, for Google’s largest 200 enterprise customers globally.

San Jose, Ca, Us

I led marketing for Cisco's development of cloud-based software for media companies to deliver and monetize their content using OTT (Over the Top) business models. Focused on product marketing, sales enablement, analyst relations and corporate communications.• Launched Cisco's first public-cloud SaaS application, generating revenue from customers including Warner Music Group.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Client relationship owner for the market research and consulting arm of Citigate Cunningham. Focused on marketing/communications research and consulting on topics including customer insight development, marketing effectiveness tracking, attribution modeling, and marketing strategy creation.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led brand and marketing-strategy consulting practice focused on building leadership profiles through thought leadership campaigns, messaging and marketing strategy development. Responsibilities included client management, marketing strategy development, campaign planning, project and team management.

Masters, Integrated Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism And Mass Communications