Hi, I'm Ivan

Growth Marketer and Creative Strategist

GTM and growth leader with a track record of generating and capturing inbound demand for B2C and B2B software products.

I lead teams of people and robots, generating millions in revenue by launching products, testing creatives, and winning mindshare.

Experience

GTM Advisor

June 2026 - Present
  • Generated 38x more signups for a B2B SaaS marketing campaign with inbound demand generation on socials.
  • Increased AI product conversions by 4x through research-based CRO and updated messaging.
  • Advised multiple a16z-backed founders and established midmarket businesses on go-to-market strategy.

Head of Growth and Marketing

January 2024 - June 2026

SteelAlive (formerly SFMP)

  • Generated $500,000 in pipeline and 90+ sales meetings through YouTube podcast interview.
  • Generated 100M+ organic views across customer and internal projects.
  • Attracted and closed contracts with 30+ customers, including multiple 8-figure companies.
  • Led customer-facing software logic and design of agentic swarm systems, delivering large-scale social media campaigns.
  • Managed 10,000+ social media accounts across AI-powered agents and human operators
  • Grew Instagram and Tiktok pages (branded, UGC, and agentic) by over 110,000 new followers
  • Coordinated relationships, campaign execution, and performance reporting.

Analyst, Advisor to CEO, Subject Matter Expert

July 2017 - January 2024

MP Team

  • Launched multiple products, including one that reached a $1M run rate in 5 months.
  • Prevented a $300,000 loss over 6 months by leading market analysis and business strategy.
  • Doubled product revenue by optimizing pricing, customer ascension, and follow-up.
  • Built content marketing systems and identified a market opportunity that guided the team's shift to GTM automation.

Online Community Owner

August 2017 - September 2019
  • Acquired and scaled a niche social media page from 6,000 to 25,000 members through sponsorships, organic growth, and partnerships.
  • Reached profitability in 4 months by selling sponsored placements. Reinvested in growth.
  • Designed and curated 8,000+ visual creatives, including community and employee-made.
  • Turned the community into a user acquisition channel to launch the first product at MP Team.

Results

Skills

  • Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Demand Generation
  • AI Automation
  • Creative Strategy
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • Lifecycle Marketing
  • Email Newsletters
  • Copywriting
  • Marketing Leadership
  • Performance Marketing
  • Social Media
  • Thought Leadership Writing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Budget Management
  • Customer Insights
  • Stakeholder Relationships

Tools

Advertising & Marketing

  • Meta Ads
  • LinkedIn Ads
  • Google Ads
  • Smartlead
  • ConvertKit
  • Substack
  • Meta Business Suite
  • Respond.io
  • Clay

Analytics & CRM

  • HubSpot
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Search Console
  • Microsoft Clarity
  • Grafana for BI
  • Attio

Creative

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Audacity
  • Canva
  • ImageMagick

AI, Automation & Development

  • OpenAI Codex
  • Claude Code
  • n8n
  • Zapier
  • Visual Studio Code
  • GitHub

Productivity & Operations

  • Obsidian
  • Wiki
  • YouTrack
  • Custom project management software

Landing Pages, Websites, Blogs

  • Ghost
  • WordPress
  • Custom HTML/CSS/JS
  • Systeme.io

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