Nick Tate / GTM + Marketing ExecutiveNashville, TN

I build revenue systems that move companies forward.

I lead marketing and go-to-market across early-stage startups and enterprise organizations, connecting market understanding, positioning, brand, demand, sales execution and operating discipline around durable growth.
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Inside the companies

Built from the inside.

Leadership across startups, scaleups and enterprise organizations. The roles change; the throughline is building clearer markets, stronger GTM systems and more durable growth.

KanmonHead of Marketing
RainHead of Marketing
Functional FinanceHead of Marketing
Built TechnologiesDirector of Marketing
SellXVP, Head of Growth
AsurionChannel Marketing Leadership
BrookdaleBrand + Field Marketing
Louisiana-PacificCorporate Brand + MarComm
Trusted by leading agencies

Agency-side experience before and alongside in-house leadership

01 / The work

The work is turning market understanding into a system for growth.

01

Build the GTM system

ICP and segmentation. Positioning and category. Buyer understanding. Demand architecture. Sales alignment. A coherent system for deciding where to play and how to win.

02

Create market pull

Brand strategy. Editorial and content. Executive visibility. Market presence. Customer experience. The work that makes a company easier to recognize, trust and choose.

03

Operate with discipline

Experimentation. Marketing operations. Capital allocation. Measurement. Team leadership. Strategy matters when it changes what the company actually does.

02 / Selected brands + clients

Work that crossed categories.

Across in-house leadership and agency work, I've supported brands and organizations spanning technology, telecom, financial services, healthcare, tourism, real estate, manufacturing and media. Different categories. Same discipline: understand the customer, clarify the value and make the work perform.

03 / How I think

Marketing strategy

isn't a funnel.

It's an influence map.

Buyers stream, scroll, search, ask, compare, forget, return, validate and decide. I approach marketing accordingly: understand the market, create distinctive demand, make the company easier to choose and allocate resources across a portfolio of bets instead of worshipping the attribution report.

The job is not to make marketing look busy. It's to increase the probability that the company wins.
04 / Selected outcomes

Proof without the chronology.

Scale2–3×

Annual revenue growth supported during Built Technologies' scale-up.

Pipeline~3×

Pipeline coverage maintained while helping scale Built from Series B through Series D.

Performance

Exceeded yearly take-rate and revenue goals at Asurion through channel marketing leadership.

05 / Thinking

Notes from the work.

Ideas on growth, GTM, leadership and the operating choices behind the numbers. View all thinking →

06 / About

Operator first. Marketer by trade.

Twenty-plus years across venture-backed technology, fintech, SaaS, agency and enterprise environments have made me less interested in marketing theater and more interested in how a company actually creates, communicates and compounds value.

MBA, Lipscomb University · BA, University of Tennessee · Nashville, Tennessee

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Nick Tate

Let's talk GTM.

I'm always interested in the people, companies and ideas reshaping how businesses grow.

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