Martin Gontovnikas — CEO
Martin Gontovnikas, a.k.a Gonto, is a software engineer at heart that moved to the “dark side” to focus on Marketing. With this career transition, he found a way to combine his 2 passions by applying his “engineering thinking” model to Marketing. He is now a B2B SaaS Advisor to Vercel and Retool among others and General Partner of Hypergrowth Partners. Previously, he was SVP of Marketing and Growth at Auth0. As a software engineer, Gonto built a framework for AngularJS called Restangular that eventually became popular and is used today by companies like weather.com, Reuters, CNN, and others. During this process, he realized that he really enjoyed making Restangular popular, by creating content for his blog, answering questions in StackOverflow, and speaking at events, more than he had enjoyed actually building the framework. The “dark side was calling .... Thanks to his engineering roots, Gonto is a very analytical person that loves creating new experiments to continuously accelerate his customers’ revenue growth. When not helping other companies with growth and marketing, Gonto can be found enjoying gourmet food at new restaurants, having beers with friends at every local brewery he can find, and traveling the globe in search of new experiences. You can follow him on Twitter (@mgonto) or read his (not so frequent) blog posts on his website.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Growth and Marketing Expert with a strong engineering background.
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Experience: 18 yrs 10 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in combining engineering and marketing strategies.
- Key player in driving Auth0's growth to unicorn status.
- Advises multiple startups on growth and marketing strategies.
Work Experience
n8n
Growth Advisor (4 mos)
Braintrust
Growth Advisor (8 mos)
Scrunch AI
Growth Advisor (1 yr 5 mos)
AirOps
Growth Advisor (7 mos)
Neon
Growth Advisor (11 mos)
Vercel
Interim CMO (5 mos)
Growth & Marketing Advisor (2 yrs 11 mos)
Retool
Growth Advisor (10 mos)
Deepgram
Marketing Advisor (1 yr)
Ashby
Growth Advisor (9 mos)
Madrona
Madrona Scout (3 yrs 2 mos)
Clerk.com
Growth Advisor (3 yrs 5 mos)
Spot.AI Ltd.
GTM Advisor (8 mos)
Tenderly
Marketing Advisor (5 mos)
Airbyte
Growth and Marketing Advisor (1 yr)
Rev
Growth & Marketing Advisor (1 yr)
Lessonly
Growth & Marketing Advisor (5 mos)
Auth0
Marketing Advisor (2 mos)
SVP, Marketing & Growth (8 mos)
HyperGrowth Partners
B2B SaaS Advisor and General Partner (5 yrs 2 mos)
Puppet
Advisor (2 yrs 1 mo)
Auth0
VP, Product (1 yr)
VP, Marketing and Growth (3 yrs 8 mos)
Director, Marketing & Growth (1 yr 2 mos)
Developer Advocate | Developer Evangelist (1 yr 1 mo)
NXTP Labs
Mentor (2 yrs 8 mos)
Socialmetrix
AngularJS Training (0 mo)
Conferences
Speaker (3 yrs)
CoachAxis
AngularJS Consultant (4 mos)
Packt Publishing
Author of Play! Framework for Web Application Development (5 mos)
Aquicore
Lead Developer & Product Architect (1 yr 6 mos)
Freelance
Freelance Software Architect (1 yr 10 mos)
Zauber
Technical Project Lead (1 yr 3 mos)
Senior Software Developer (1 yr 3 mos)
Globant
Software Developer (3 yrs)
Education
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
IT Bachelor at ORT