Fractional CMO & Senior Marketing Advisor

Two decades driving measurable growth across media, e-commerce, subscription, and DTC brands. I specialize in lifestyle and media, working with startups finding their footing and enterprises optimizing for greater profitability. I integrate seamlessly into your existing team or work independently, whatever the moment calls for.

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Growth & Revenue Strategy

Strategic marketing plans connecting brand, performance, and lifecycle. Revenue and monetization planning. New revenue stream identification and buildout. P&L ownership.

Acquisition, Retention & Loyalty

End-to-end lifecycle and CRM strategy. Subscription and membership program design. Retention and win-back frameworks. Customer lifetime value optimization.

Go-to-Market & Positioning

New product launches, rebrands, and replatforms. Customer adoption frameworks and market narratives. Positioning for press, partnerships, and industry audiences.

Performance & Digital Marketing

Deep-dive audits of existing marketing programs. Paid and organic channel strategy. Email, SMS, affiliate, influencer, SEO, and content integration. Agency and vendor evaluation.

Team Building & Org Development

Building, training, and coaching marketing teams. Performance frameworks and operating cadence. Cross-functional alignment. Executive-level marketing buy-in and C-suite partnership.

Fractional CMO

Embedded marketing leadership for founder-led and growth-stage companies. Strategic planning, budget ownership, and board-level collaboration, without the full-time overhead.

Work spanning media, commerce, and technology.

Selected clients and employers across two decades in growth marketing, from household consumer brands to venture-backed digital platforms.

  • Hearst Media & Publishing
  • Apartment Therapy Media Lifestyle Media
  • Genius Media & Community Platform
  • Food52 eCommerce & Lifestyle Media
  • Los Angeles Times News Media & Publishing
  • Nota AI-Powered SaaS
  • Edgewell Personal Care CPG
  • Energizer CPG
  • Sabra CPG
  • Stacy's Pita Chips CPG
  • Pampers CPG
  • Gilt eCommerce
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
  • Broadway.com Entertainment & Ticketing
  • Music & Arts Retail & Education
  • The College Board Education
  • Day One Agency Marketing Services
  • smart USA Automotive
  • First Second Books Publishing
  • LATAM Airlines Travel
  • Half Moon Resort Jamaica Travel
  • Fitzpatrick Hotel Group Travel
  • South African Airways Travel
  • South African Tourism Travel

Where I move the needle.

Representative areas of operational impact across engagements.

Subscriber & Revenue Growth
Architected acquisition and retention programs delivering sustained subscriber and membership growth. Owned P&L accountability, pricing strategy, and conversion optimization across the full funnel — with a consistent focus on long-term retention and customer lifetime value.
Membership & Subscription Product Launch
Built membership and subscription programs from the ground up as net-new revenue streams — partnering with Product, Engineering, and C-suite leadership on product definition, GTM strategy, promotional planning, and feature prioritization to drive adoption and sustained retention.
Revenue Streams & Marketing Efficiency
Restructured channel mix to reduce paid dependency — building out organic and owned channels to drive durable, lower-cost growth while introducing net-new revenue streams. The result: materially improved efficiency, stronger revenue yield, and a more resilient marketing operation.
Organizational Build-Out
Built and restructured marketing organizations of 10 to 35 during periods of high growth and transition. Established operating cadence, KPI frameworks, and talent structures designed to scale.
Martech & Operations
Led end-to-end martech transformations, including platform selection, lifecycle automation, CDP implementation, and analytics buildout, translating infrastructure investment into measurable performance gains.
Market Positioning & GTM
Directed go-to-market strategy and brand repositioning for media and consumer businesses, translating product and customer data into narratives that drove category authority, press, and commercial partnerships.

Two decades of building growth at scale.

Leadership roles across consumer media, eCommerce, and marketing services.

Marodcar Advisory
2023 – Present
2017 – 2019

Executive Marketing Consultant & Fractional CMO

Advising media and consumer companies on GTM strategy, new revenue streams, and AI-enabled product adoption across subscription, eCommerce, and digital platform businesses. Serving as Fractional CMO for an AI-powered content platform. Earlier consulting practice spanned national news media, education, and marketing services.

Food52
2021 – 2022

VP, Audience Growth

Owned growth strategy and P&L across a multi-brand eCommerce and media portfolio. Led a 10+ person team spanning lifecycle, paid, influencer, affiliate, SEO, and brand. Delivered double-digit YoY revenue growth following a record prior year; launched channel firsts including Digital OOH and Programmatic Direct Mail.

Los Angeles Times
2019 – 2021

VP, Consumer & Subscription Marketing

Led acquisition, lifecycle, and retention strategy for one of America's largest regional news brands. Built and scaled five cross-functional teams of 35+ professionals. Drove 254% subscriber growth YoY and 63% revenue growth. Launched the brand's first brand marketing campaign in a decade and directed a full martech transformation.

Beeby Clark+Meyler
2011 – 2017

Group Director, Accounts & Strategy

Directed $20M+ in client budgets and led a 15-person team delivering integrated marketing for CPG, media, travel, and eCommerce clients. Oversaw branding, content, paid media, SEO, influencer, email, and retail programs. Led a major CPG rebrand achieving 7× benchmark sales lift (Oracle, 96th percentile).

Earlier Experience
2005 – 2011

Digital Strategy, Media & Agency Roles

Early career across agency and brand-side roles in digital strategy, social media, media planning, and account management. Held positions at StrawberryFrog and Gilt, and co-founded a boutique marketing consultancy serving publishing and spirits brands.

Let's talk.

If the work here resonates and you're facing a challenge worth solving, I'd love to connect. I take on a limited number of engagements at a time, so reach out early.

Based in Miami, FL and Brooklyn, NY. Available for remote and on-site engagements.