Portrait of Matthew Alexander

Growth marketing leader. AI-native operator. Currently at Fulcrum Digital.

01ABOUT

A decade, built quietly.

I'm a senior marketing leader with roughly a decade of experience across B2B services, consumer technology, and DTC.Today I lead a cross-functional team of eight at Fulcrum Digital, where I own strategic partnerships, growth marketing, events, and AI enablement.

The through-line across every role I've held is this: I build things that work. Real revenue, real programs, real teams. I'm most useful when a company needs someone who can own a marketing function end-to-end, or when the leverage is in bringing AI in as a genuine capability rather than a talking point.

My foundation is in marketing research. Early in my career I worked in consulting, running large research projects that informed target audience definition and go-to-market strategy. The biggest growth spurt of my career came at Impact Marketing, where I ran full research campaigns end to end: primary research through surveys and interviews, both quantitative and qualitative, then synthesis, insight gathering, and application. From there I would translate those findings into a yearly marketing strategy that I presented directly to clients, then partnered with the agency's post-sales team to put into action. I consulted with small and mid-sized businesses in hyper-growth phases, helping them find and close the gaps that open up when a company scales fast.

If there's one thing I'm known for, it's building the relationships that make hard things possible, inside an organization and out. At Fulcrum, I inherited two teams that had a history of friction, and a flagship website that had been stalled in the balance for nearly a year because of it. Rather than route around the problem, I worked to rebuild trust between them: getting people talking, aligning them on a shared goal, and turning a tense dynamic into a working partnership. The website that had been stuck for a year finally shipped, and those teams have kept working well together since. That's the throughline in how I operate: real revenue, real programs, and teams that actually want to deliver together.

02WHAT I'VE BUILT

Numbers, on paper.

01 — PROOF
$0K

removed in annual overhead by building Fulcrum's first production-scale AI marketing operating system from scratch.

02 — PROOF
$0.0M

in revenue driven by a single $900K campaign at Cedar Electronics. Four times return.

03 — PROOF
$0K

in first-season revenue from a new product launch at Perimeter Solutions.

04 — PROOF
$0K

built from zero as the direct-to-consumer channel at Rosseto.

03SELECTED WORK

A working index.

Escort Redline 360c radar detector
ESCORT RADAR · CEDAR ELECTRONICS

Project Apex

Cedar Electronics committed $900K in marketing investment to grow the Escort line of radar detectors. I led the program end to end — owning paid media strategy, go-to-market, and product marketing for upcoming launches, and directing the in-house team and our website, content, and creative agencies through execution. The flagship Redline 360c anchored the push.

$3.6M
returned on $900K invested
50%
YoY sales lift, flagship
210%
increase in ROAS
700%
growth in site traffic
73% / 312%
social follower / engagement lift
Phos-Chek Wildfire Home Defense product jug
PERIMETER SOLUTIONS · GO-TO-MARKET LAUNCH

Phos-Chek Wildfire Home Defense

Perimeter Solutions makes the red fire retardant that government crews drop to stop wildfires. They concentrated that same product into a consumer version — mix with water, spray it on your home and yard — so homeowners in wildfire country could defend their own property. I was hired to lead the digital marketing for the launch: the full strategy and execution across website, social, content, and creative, coordinating every agency and in-house resource to bring a brand-new consumer product to market.

$1M
launch sales
200%
of the $500K summer quota
04EDUCATION

Credentials.

Bachelor of Science, Marketing & Advertising

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)

Mini MBA in Marketing

Marketing Week (Prof. Mark Ritson), 2023

05WHAT I'M GOOD AT

Where I'm useful.

  • Building marketing functions and growth engines from scratch.
  • Leading AI-native marketing operations at production scale.
  • Running and managing events and partner programs.
  • An expert relationship builder who brings internal and external stakeholders together.
  • Grounded in marketing research: primary research and insight work that shapes audience and go-to-market strategy.
06WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

The next role.

Roles where I can own the marketing function or a major slice of growth, where AI is treated as a real capability, and where the team values getting things done over building decks about getting things done.

Ideal targets: Head of Marketing or VP Marketing at a services or B2B firm. First or second marketing hire at a Series A to C company. Growth or partnerships leader inside an AI-native or AI-forward business.

07EXPERIENCE

Where I've been.