Felix Danczak

Co-Founder

United Kingdom12 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led Zuora's $1.7B exit through strategic marketing.
  • Scaled Zephr from 20 to 110+ employees with 100% YoY growth.
  • Advises on AI-driven growth for venture-backed companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-driven growth strategist with extensive experience in marketing and business transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategySales ManagementMarketing StrategyBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Thinking

Other Skills

Sales OperationsCustomer SuccessMarketingPerformance MetricsInnovation ManagementStartupsChange ManagementLeadershipPresentationsSales ProcessesInternational Business DevelopmentCustomer ExperienceComplex SalesGoal SettingStrategic Leadership

About

I help companies rewire their go-to-market systems for the AI era. Drawing on over a decade of experience leading growth and transformation across SaaS, D2C, and creative businesses, I focus on embedding AI tools, workflows and practice into the core of marketing, monetization, and decision-making, turning it from a performance tool into a structural advantage. As Global Head of Marketing at Zuora, I led the repositioning that helped drive its $1.7B exit, integrated multiple acquisitions, and rebuilt the GTM model around intelligent monetization — generating over $40M in new quarterly pipeline. Before that, as founding COO at Zephr, I scaled the business from 20 to 110+ employees, drove 100% YoY revenue growth, and co-led its $50M acquisition by Zuora. Today, through Market Led Growth Ltd, I advise venture-backed companies, creative agencies, and enterprise SaaS firms on AI-driven growth — from adaptive pricing and agentic commerce to AI-native marketing operations. My work sits at the intersection of technology, creativity, and business model design: helping teams sense, decide, and execute faster than their markets evolve.

Experience

Pembroke vct

Head of AI & Growth

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Advising portfolio company founders and leadership teams on AI strategy, GTM execution, and tooling. Leading strategic workshops, developing and implementing practical frameworks, and supporting AI-driven transformation. Working closely with investment teams on AI diligence, risk/opportunity assessment, and exit/fundraising readiness.

Market-led growth

Founder

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · On-site

  • In my role as Founder, I deploy a proprietary strategic framework that empowers companies to adapt and thrive in a market moving at hyperspeed. By focusing on building new GTM systems rather than scaling outdated models, we help businesses achieve sustainable growth. Our innovative approach includes deploying market-sensing pods and dynamic pricing architectures, ensuring our partners remain competitive and agile.

Career break

Health and well-being

Jan 2025Jun 2025 · 5 mos

  • I am currently taking a career break after six years of highly focused, intensive work in leadership roles. This time is dedicated to rest, reflection, and personal growth, while exploring new ideas and opportunities for the future. I am also using this period to work on personal projects, including writing, and to reconnect with my passions outside of work.

Zuora

3 roles

Global Head of Marketing

Promoted

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos

  • As Zuora's Global Head of Marketing, I lead a full-stack marketing function encompassing everything from company narrative, brand and enablement to demand generation that communicates our innovative monetization solutions. My focus is on the broader shift from intent-led to engagement-led marketing, using new technologies, data and AI to help communicate the right message to the right person at the right time.

Vice President, GTM

Jul 2023Mar 2024 · 8 mos

  • Continue to run the day-to-day operations of the Zephr Line-Of-Business, working directly into the SVP Strategy and CRO to drive pipeline and revenue. Responsible for revenue growth, overall GTM strategy and supporting product direction.
Business StrategySales OperationsGo-to-Market StrategyCustomer SuccessSales Management

Senior Director

Sep 2022Jul 2023 · 10 mos

  • Following Acquisition of Zephr by Zuora in September 2022
EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyMarketingPerformance MetricsInnovation ManagementStartups+23

Zephr

Chief Operating Officer

Oct 2019Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos · London, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Zephr was acquired by Zuora in September 2022
  • Joined as first COO, partnering with Founding CEO and CTO & a team of 20, following seed raise to lead day-to-day management of company, bring rigour through series A in 2020 and Series A+ in 2022, with a team of 100+
  • Overall responsibility for the commercial side of the business, delivering 100% YoY growth for 3 years with a focus on strong underlying metrics (CAC, retention, magic number,) as well as working with the CFO and VP People to control costs and headcount to retain strong gross margins for business fundamentals.
  • Led company through pandemic, developed a strong culture of transparency in the company as we worked remotely, producing clear sense of ownership in teams and low staff turnover where everyone feels valued and aligned.
  • Co-led the acquisition process and ran Due Diligence function during exit to Zuora for $48M
EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyPerformance MetricsInnovation ManagementStartupsLeadership+18

Signal media ltd

Head Of Strategy

Jun 2017Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, UK

  • Supported Signal from Series A through to a C valuation of £100M with responsibility for strategic direction. >150% annual revenue growth, helped grow a team of 35 to 120+ across 3 continents and drove engagement for seven-figure deals with Deloitte & EY.
  • Oversaw GTM strategy including pricing and packaging, leveraging our channel partnerships, executing M&A strategy and building our funding narratives, including the definition and modelling of our markets.
  • Ran a 5-month restructuring project to reform a £100K loss-making manual services function into a profit-centre, £1.5M+ revenue and strong pipeline.
  • Created and executed a turnaround on Marketing function: rehiring team, 5x-ing monthly pipeline contribution and 100% growth in leads in 4 months though content and event strategies.
EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyInnovation ManagementStartupsLeadershipPresentations+15

Cfd leadership consulting

Director

Oct 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · London

  • Co-Founder of a boutique strategic communications consultancy, supporting a wide range of clients from HNWs to tech firms on overall strategic direction, go-to-market messaging and language. Recent projects include work with Brunswick, BFI, Signal Media, Royal Academy and Microsoft (Office, Skype).
EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyAnalytical SkillsStrategic ThinkingBusiness Development

Freuds

2 roles

Special Advisor to the Chairman

Jun 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · London

  • I worked directly for the chairman of freuds, one of the largest PR companies in the UK with a significant global presence. I had a wide remit, providing policy and communications provision for a host of private clients, preparing research documents for both internal and external clients, running a dedicated new-business research team, undertaking strategic reviews of business development opportunities alongside Senior Management, and preparing project, sector and company analyses, with a focus on the UK media sector and the sharing economy. I also managed the design and build of a new office space with a multi-million budget, and the subsequent move of the company of 250 people to new premises.
Analytical SkillsStrategic ThinkingBusiness Development

Special Advisor to the Managing Director

Jul 2013Jun 2014 · 11 mos · London

Analytical SkillsStrategic ThinkingBusiness Development

Rostrum intelligence llp

Director

Sep 2012Jul 2013 · 10 mos · London

  • I founded and ran a bespoke research and support service for public figures, akin to a private Civil Service. We provided policy development, speeches, op-eds research and articulation for a series of high profile and HNW clients. before successfully negotiating the company's absorption into freuds following a successful trail.

Legatum institute

Intern

Jul 2011Sep 2011 · 2 mos · London, Canada Area

Education

University of Cambridge

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Social and Political Sciences

Jan 2008Jan 2012

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Executive MBA

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Sevenoaks School

Jan 2003Jan 2008

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