
Zeeshan Aga
Verified Expert in Marketing
Marketing Expert
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since July 18, 2024
Zeeshan is a dynamic AI-first marketing leader with 17+ years of experience driving corporate growth and revenue strategies. He excels in strategic B2B go-to-market (GTM) executions and leveraging generative AI for customer-centric approaches. Known for his visionary leadership, Zeeshan transforms organizations by enhancing customer engagement and market relevance. His expertise spans B2B marketing, SaaS GTM strategies, and supply chain transformation, achieving robust ROI and impactful results.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- AI Marketing
- Account-based Marketing (ABM)
- B2B Marketing
- Channel Strategy
- Demand Generation
- Digital Marketing
- Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies
- HubSpot
Work Experience
Chief Marketing Officer
Qorden AI
- Built the end-to-end GTM strategy for an AI-native multilingual video collaboration platform targeting enterprise accounts across SEA, LATAM, and US markets.
- Developed ICP and segmentation frameworks identifying enterprise buyers across technology, government, and media verticals for focused demand generation.
- Established the ABM program structure and account-level outreach cadences to drive a qualified pipeline from zero for a pre-revenue AI SaaS platform.
- Built a 17-agent autonomous marketing system using Claude and Node.js that runs prospect research, outreach, content publishing, and LinkedIn amplification daily without engineering support.
- Created executive positioning content and thought leadership program, increasing LinkedIn impressions and profile visibility among target enterprise buyer personas.
- Implemented AI-driven demand generation infrastructure, including voice-cloned video outreach, email open tracking, and warm signal automation to prioritize follow-up.
ABM Expert for Cloud Security Company
Zscaler
- Collaborated closely with AE, regional marketing teams, CXOs, & SME to develop account progression strategies, define target personas, and create tailored content that directly supported sales goals and enhanced go-to-market effectiveness.
- Utilized Salesforce, 6sense, Pathfactory, Tableau, and analytics platforms to segment audiences, track multi-touch attribution, measure campaign ROI, and continuously refine ABM strategies based on performance data and lead conversion metrics.
- Identified and activated expansion opportunities within existing accounts by developing targeted campaigns that introduced complementary products and solutions.
- Executed 1:1 and 1:few ABM initiatives across priority enterprise accounts, leveraging multi-channel activations including digital campaigns, personalized mailers, and on-site workshops to advance accounts through the sales cycle.
Early-stage Growth Marketer
RAES Inc
- Developed a comprehensive marketing strategy aligned with RAES’ mission of prioritizing customer success and challenges over self-promotion. Transformed marketing to a customer-centric approach that resonated with RAES’ values.
- Designed and implemented a scalable marketing and revenue operations infrastructure to support RAES’ growth. Delivered tools, frameworks, and processes equipped to manage marketing ops independently, enabling them to execute confidently.
- Created clear, authentic messaging highlighting customer challenges and successes while maintaining a professional yet empathetic tone. Helped RAES position itself as a thought leader in the roofing industry, focusing on problem amplification.
- Established analytics frameworks to measure marketing effectiveness and provided strategic guidance to balance ambitious goals with actionable plans.
GTM/Growth Strategy Consultant
CurrentWave AI LLC
- Worked with the CEO to draft a GTM plan for their AI customer experience SaaS tool.
- Contributed to the strategy for lead magnets, defining ideal customer profiles and building out messaging pillars to drive problem amplification and solution selling.
- Collaborated and helped with pre-during and post-marketing coverage for events and webinars as a part of their go-to-market initiatives for demand generation.
Chief Marketing Officer
Pluto7
- Directed a multi-regional team focused on GTM positioning strategies and partner alliances to drive the pipeline across North America, EMEA, and the Indian subcontinent.
- Increased conversions by 25% after leading the repositioning and launch of a platform-selling approach focused on generative AI as an enabler for enterprise use cases, streamlining customer acquisition with subscriptions.
- Developed joint GTM partner alliances with hyperscalers like Google and ERPs like SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce to enable sell-through motion and prime positioning in cloud marketplaces with customer mindshare.
- Captured $45 million in qualified leads in the sales pipeline cumulatively by planning and executing synergistic marketing programs. Executed motions with key partners, growing the pipeline by 40%.
- Led the migration and setup of Salesforce through marketing, sales, delivery, and support to enable Customer 360 view to boost customer retention and repeat sales.
- Optimized content delivery and positioning readiness using generative AI at the right place and time for customer interest creation.
- Earned recognition in events and analyst interactions for Pluto7 to win Data Analytics Partner of the Year, Gartner Market Guide Vendor in Data Analytics in 2021, Frost & Sullivan New Wave award in 2022, and Gartner Market Guide Vendor in 2023.
General Manager | Sales Operations & Enablement
Greytip Software Pvt. Ltd.
- Spearheaded the tactical growth strategy in India and the Middle East while supporting 60+ sales staff.
- Supported and improved marketing effectiveness and conversion rate optimization.
- Increased the revenue allocation per territory by 20% with effective sales utilization.
- Propelled a 25% growth in the lead-to-sales conversion ratio through enablement.
Director | Demand Generation & Sales Operations
InstaSafe
- Defined the program mix and administered a multimillion-dollar demand plan and budget.
- Generated $4 million in pipeline value with a 50% conversion to revenue.
- Established the demand generation practice with a key focus on sourcing the right operations.
- Scrutinized support tickets, product usage, customer satisfaction surveys, and feedback to identify possible customer churn and success, maintaining lifetime value.
- Managed tier I and II partners, including AWS and Ingram Micro, for the joint GTM launch and reported to the co-founder and chief revenue officer.
- Selected as a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 global award recipient.
Head of Business
Profectum Market Solutions
- Simplified the GTM product launch strategy and crafted a roadmap targeting early adopters.
- Strengthened the Sfunnle.com brand as the go-to engine and facilitated customer base growth by engaging with partners end-to-end in tier II and tier III cities.
- Attained a triple-digit revenue increase YoY through customer acquisition. Elected, equipped, and engaged channel partners to drive regional customer adoption.
- Created an IPAM program for leading networking enterprises to drive APAC lead volumes from partners and to grow mindshare.
- Grew lead transactions to 1,500 monthly, equating to $95 per lead. Enabled 40% growth in the pipeline from partners for IT hardware firms from the IMPACT program.
Business Head
Proficio Business Solutions Private
- Orchestrated marketing and consulting services and a training function for India and Singapore.
- Measured the return on marketing investment and implemented an account-based marketing approach with vital accounts.
- Grew the integrated marketing services, consulting, and training business in India and Singapore.
- Allocated and ran a $250,000 market development fund program by identifying the right partner, understanding their marketing plans, and helping execute to deliver joint wins.
- Deployed framework and technology training for 7,000 retail sales representatives dispersed in 300 stores.
Head | Customer Engagement Programs
ACEF Global
- Ran a division with a team size of 300+ outreach specialists with P&L responsibility.
- Managed customers, won orders, and grew critical accounts with $1+ million in revenue with NVIDIA, Dell, and Cisco.
- Tasked with global expansion with tentacles in the US, Middle East, and Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).
Project History
Demand Generation for an Enterprise Class AI Data Platform
Drove the design and execution of an end-to-end GTM plan to enable a high-touch, low-manual intervention plan to generate interest and a qualified pipeline for an enterprise data platform product on the cloud.
Planning in a Box is a supply chain transformation tool built on Google Cloud to enable a control tower for end-to-end supply chain visibility. We focused mainly on use cases like demand sensing, demand forecasting, inventory positioning, and inventory visibility. The goal was to generate interest within the top 2,000 accounts in retail, CPG, manufacturing, healthcare, and high-tech customers across North America, the UK and Ireland, EMEA, META, and the Indian subcontinent.
I led the deployment of an automated engine to drive top-of-the-funnel interest and trickle down to the middle and bottom of the funnel through intent tracking and hyper-personalized account-based outreach. These efforts generated $75 million in qualified leads, with an average ticket size of $175,000 per opportunity. I also converted major customers, including a leading toothpaste manufacturer and a large motorcycle brand.
Market Repositioning for Customer Acquisition
Led the productization of a services offering into a subscription-based platform solution offering through positioning, customer identification, competitor landscaping, and customer acquisition.
Pluto7 is a leading boutique solutions company offering supply chain transformation services by combining data and machine learning AI.
I led the team through an easier GTM with a subscription-based product offering to drive quick adoption, simulated demos, and try-before-you-buy plans, enabling customers to touch and feel the features and then invest. Through subscription offerings, I lowered the entry barrier from $200,000 to as low as $20,000 for a faster sales cycle.
AI-first Digital Transformation
Spearheaded AI-first digital transformation initiatives, aligning with Pluto7's strategic vision to leverage Google Cloud AI and machine learning capabilities across various industries.
I led a cross-functional team to design and implement AI-driven solutions that improved customer experience and operational efficiencies for healthcare, manufacturing, and retail clients. I collaborated with senior stakeholders to drive organizational change, fostering a culture of innovation and facilitating workshops to elevate the organization’s AI maturity level.
Additionally, I managed relationships with technology partners and vendors, ensuring the successful integration of AI technologies and tools within client environments. I collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing IT infrastructures, ensuring seamless adoption and minimal disruption to business processes.
I developed and executed training programs for over 200 employees, fostering an AI-driven culture and enhancing staff competencies in using AI tools and methodologies. I also played a pivotal role in securing key accounts by leveraging expertise in AI applications to deliver tailored presentations that demonstrated potential ROI from proposed AI initiatives.
End-to-end Demand Generation Practice for a Security SaaS
Strategized and executed the set up of a demand generation engine to capture, nurture, and convert leads into initial customers.
InstaSafe, an award-winning cloud security SaaS product, wanted to use martech to drive its customer nurturing and demand generation part of the sales funnel. The challenge was that customers needed a lot of nurturing and education, and that was where expensive sales resource time was being allocated.
I was hired as a consultant to set up an in-house demand generation engine that would take over and be accountable for the customer journey—from suspect to customer. I used a digital-first approach with content-driven knowledge dissemination to identify suspects. Then, I converted them to prospects, according to the ideal customer profile, using a lot of demo selling and simulated demos to drive interest and awareness.
These efforts resulted in $4 million in qualified sales funnel in the commercial negotiation phase with a closure rate of 80% within two quarters.
"Improve Profits at Channels Tail" (IMPACT) Program
Led the program strategy and execution to drive a metric of 200 partners engaged in six weeks: 75% of partners enrolled, 50% actively referred leads or deals, and a $250,000 pipeline was generated in three weeks.
The goal was to engage 200 partners across five cities. I enabled system integrators (SI) and resellers by educating them on the benefits of professional graphics versus consumer-based graphics platforms. I also inducted the SI and resellers into a tailor-made referral program to provide sales leads through Sfunnle.com.
AI Native GTM Build for Multilingual Video Collaboration Platform
- 17 — Autonomous AI Agents Built and Deployed
- 3x — Daily Automated Outreach Runs without Engineering Support
Qorden AI had no marketing function, no pipeline, and no brand presence. Reaching enterprise buyers in the GCC required building an ICP definition, demand-gen infrastructure, and outreach capabilities from scratch. Pipeline generation was entirely founder-dependent with no repeatable motion in place.
Built the marketing function from zero, including ICP segmentation, ABM program design, and account-level outreach cadences. Developed a 17-agent autonomous GTM system using Claude as the reasoning layer, running three times daily to handle prospect research, personalized outreach, content publishing, LinkedIn amplification, and a weekly intelligence brief to senior contacts. Implemented AI-generated video outreach using a professional voice clone for hyper-personalized account engagement at scale without engineering support.
• Built an AI-native demand engine running autonomously 3x daily
• Published 17-agent GTM system as B2B SaaS proof of concept
• Generated direct inbound interest from enterprise buyers and senior marketing leaders
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing
Liverpool John Moores University - Liverpool, UK
Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad - Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
William Carey University - India
Certifications
HubSpot Marketing Hub Software
HubSpot Academy
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Google | via Coursera
Introduction to Generative AI
Google Cloud
The Persuasion Code: The Neuroscience of Sales
LinkedIn Learning
OKR Goal Setting 101
Udemy
Negotiation Skills
LinkedIn Learning
High Impact Presentations
Dale Carnegie
Skills
Core
AI Marketing, Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, Channel Strategy, Account-based Marketing (ABM), Digital Marketing, LinkedIn Marketing, Social Media, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation, Marketing Leadership, Digital Marketing Strategy, Google Ads, Performance Marketing, Omnichannel Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Email Marketing Automation, Marketing, Marketing Operations, Social Media Management, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Market Research & Analysis, Marketing Analytics, Content Marketing, Content Creation, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Lead Generation, Growth Hacking, Marketing Campaigns, Product Marketing, Cold Emailing, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Content Marketing Strategy, Campaign Management, Brand Marketing, Campaign Strategy, Funnel Marketing, Brand Strategy, Paid Advertising, Ad Campaigns, Influencer Marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), B2C Marketing, Content, Product Positioning, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Customer Success, Enterprise Sales, Audience Targeting, Customer Engagement, LinkedIn Ads, Account Planning, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Facebook Ads, Affiliate Marketing, Copywriting
Platforms & Tools
HubSpot, Google Analytics, HubSpot Marketing Hub, CRM Systems, Pardot, Marketo, Zoho, Asana, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Acquisition Channels, Claude
Business Models
B2B, SaaS Product Marketing, SaaS, Market Positioning, Software as a Service (SaaS)
Other
B2B Marketing, Salesforce, Demand Generation, Marketing Channel Strategy, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Sales Operations, Sales Strategy, Growth Marketing, Automation, Startups, Marketing Plans, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales & CRM Platforms, Digital Newsletters, Email Marketing Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Event Management, Event Planning, Leads, Go-to-market Plans, Product Launch, Launch Strategy, Business Proposals, Pitch Decks, Solution Design, Integration, Audits, B2B Lead Generation, B2B Partnerships, Partnerships, Customer Acquisition, Growth Strategy, Brand Awareness, Commercial Strategy, Event Marketing, Conferencing, Outbound Marketing, Outreach, Pricing, Startup Consulting, Go-to-market (GTM) Strategies, Growth Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Sales Strategy, B2B Sales Management, Channel Management, Channel Sales, Growth Marketing Product Manager, Data Analysis, Cold Outreach, Value Proposition, Campaign Design, HubSpot CRM, Revenue Growth, Fractional CMO, Team Leadership, Campaign Execution, Cross-functional Collaboration, Jira, Growth, Distribution Operations, Sales Effectiveness, Business Development, Zapier, Presales, Microsoft Power BI, Brand Awareness Campaigns, Conference & Event Production, Website Optimization, User Experience (UX), Sales Leadership, GoHighLevel, ClickFunnels, Basecamp, Sales & Channel Enablement, Marketing Cloud, Digital Transformation, Business Administration, Sales Pipeline Management, Customer Data Platform (CDP), Lead Nurturing, Press Releases, Salesforce Service Cloud, Brand Positioning, Competitive Strategy, Sales Enablement, Pipelines, Win/Loss Analysis, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Revenue Operations (RevOps), Market Entry, Cold Calling, Customer Data, Hyper-personalization, Zoom, Hotjar, Community Marketing, Cloud, SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM), Oracle, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Competitor Analysis & Profiling, SAP Marketing Cloud, MarTech Solutions, SEO with AI, Revenue Modeling, SaaS Sales, Territory Mapping, Presentations, Storytelling, Negotiation, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Project Management, Google Optimize, 6sense, Tableau, Workshops, Clipping, Agentic AI, Agentic GTM, Go-to-market (GTM) Planning, Partnership Marketing, Pipeline generation, Revenue Marketing
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