Stephen Brough

CEO

Mountain View, California, United States30 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Transformed underperforming units into multi-hundred-million dollar ARR engines.
  • Led global launches of products with over 1B monthly active users.
  • Recognized as an industry thought leader in digital transformation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Growth Executive with expertise in global GTM strategies and ecosystem architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global GtmEcosystem GrowthBusiness Development

Other Skills

Revenue GrowthEcosystem PartnershipsTeam BuildingProduct ManagementGTM ExecutionPartnership ManagementChannel PartnershipsGTM StrategyTeam ManagementProduct LaunchGrowth StrategyPartnership StrategyRevenue GenerationChannel StrategyRevenue Responsibility

About

Transformational Growth Executive with 30 years of leadership across Google, Sony, and TATA Communications. I specialize in solving the "Cold Start" problem for emerging technologies and architecting complex, multi-region GTM ecosystems. My track record includes revitalizing underperforming global business units into multi-hundred-million dollar ARR engine and advising product roadmaps for platforms with 1B+ Monthly Active Users. Core Impact Pillars: * Turnaround Excellence: Orchestrated a strategic global pivot, delivering 4x YoY growth and sustaining an 18% monthly compounded growth rate. * Hyper-Scale GTM: Led the global launch of 4+ products, including one scaled to 500M+ MAUs. Strategic Capital: Managed a high-impact multi-million dollar partner incentive fund to drive ecosystem adoption across 50% of global GDP. * Ecosystem Architecture: Trusted advisor to C-suite leaders at United Airlines, IHG, Salesforce, and Twilio to drive digital transformation.

Experience

30 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Google

4 roles

Global GTM Head, RCS for Business

Promoted

May 2023Present · 3 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Transformational Growth Leader: Spearheaded the turnaround of a program at just X% of plan into a Google-scale $XXX Million global ARR business in under two years. Sustained a remarkable 18% monthly compounded revenue growth rate for the last 20 months, consistently demonstrating exceptional global revenue leadership and GTM execution.
  • Global Ecosystem & Partnership Catalyst: Drove 30X transactional volume growth in the last 18 months through strategic investments in hiring, pipeline management, and operational rigor. Cultivated deep, top-to-top relationships with C-suite executives at all leading GTM partners globally, securing critical top-down commitment and strategic alignment.
  • Global Team Builder & Mentor: Built and mentored a high-performing, XX-person international team (including people managers), fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and focused execution across priority countries representing 48% of global GDP, including large markets like US, India, Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Singapore.
  • Product Visionary & Industry Thought Leader: Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX and Engineering leads to ensure a competitive product offering based on user feedback, advising on the multi-year roadmap. Recognized as an industry thought leader in digital marketing, commerce, and care, regularly delivering keynote speeches to large audiences (200+ attendees) and shaping the future of business messaging with a 1+ billion user footprint.
Global GTMRevenue GrowthEcosystem PartnershipsTeam BuildingProduct ManagementEcosystem Growth

Global Head | Channel Partnerships, Google Business Messages

Promoted

May 2021May 2023 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Global Impact: Spearheaded all global channel partnerships and non-US brand partnerships, directly shaping Google's go-to-market strategy and product roadmap for Business Messages.
  • Team Builder: Founded and scaled Google's 12-person global channel partnerships team from inception, defining the initial business case, recruiting top talent, developing their expertise, and managing day-to-day execution across all regions.
  • C-Suite Engagement: Represented Google externally, engaging with senior executives at leading global partners (CRM, CX, SaaS providers), major brands (airlines, banks, retailers), and government bodies (e.g., European Commission) as a core member of the cross-functional leadership team.
  • Top-Rated Manager: Consistently recognized for exceptional performance, earning 18 bonuses and a 98% People Manager Rating (PMR) – an "outstanding" achievement for leading large, diverse global teams at Google.
  • Ecosystem Growth: Delivered 4x merchant growth while establishing the contractual frameworks, pipeline management tools, partner programs, and performance dashboards that now power Google's messaging experiences for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
Channel PartnershipsGTM StrategyTeam ManagementEcosystem GrowthGlobal GTM

Global Lead | Google Verified SMS & Verified Calls Partnerships

Jan 2019May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Global Product Launch & Growth Lead: Launched two new global products at Google, achieving rapid scale and impacting millions of users daily. Led go-to-market (GTM) partner strategy, product roadmap direction, and served on the cross-functional leadership team.
  • Hyper-Growth Strategist: Delivered 50X global growth from 2020-2021 by creating and executing the GTM plan, providing team direction, and establishing operational rigor.
  • Onboarding & Scalability Expert: Revamped the onboarding process and pioneered a new Terms of Service (ToS) methodology, shortening onboarding timelines from weeks to minutes. This facilitated the rapid launch of hundreds of partners globally, scaling the product to hundreds of millions of users.
Product LaunchGTM StrategyGrowth StrategyGlobal GTM

Global Lead | Mobile Identity Partnerships

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Founding Member - Devised and executed the partnership GTM strategy that today enables Google to verify and maintain user identity across all Android devices globally and enables multiple billion user per day experiences across flagship Google products in advertising, messaging, payments and video conferencing to name a few.
  • Google-Scale Revenue - The resulting identity infrastructure made it possible for Google Ads and other products to generate hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue annually.
Partnership StrategyRevenue GenerationGlobal GTM

Tata communications

7 roles

Global Director | Alliances & Partnerships, Mobility & Collaboration

Jan 2017Jan 2017 · 0 mo

  • Channel Strategy - Devised partner programs, processes, GTM strategies and joint business plans with GSIs and technology partners (e.g. Amazon) to resell TATA’s solutions.
  • Winning Startup - Won TATA’s 2017 “Shape the Future” startup competition - which had 350+ submissions across the company - to fund my startup submission focused on using mobile signaling technology to fight credit card fraud.
Channel StrategyGTM StrategyEcosystem Growth

Global Director | Mobile, Collaboration, Voice & IoT Solution Sales

Jan 2014Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

  • Revenue Responsibility -Delivered $XX Million per year in revenue with tech giants (eg Facebook, Google, etc) through IoT, Mobile, Voice and Business Collaboration partnerships.
  • Team Manager - Directly oversaw a 5-person team across three regions.
  • Outstanding Growth - Grew one account from zero to be the 2nd largest worldwide in revenue.
Revenue ResponsibilityTeam ManagementBusiness Development

Global Director | Business Development, Mobile Broadband Solutions

Promoted

Jan 2010Jan 2014 · 4 yrs

  • Business Lead - Responsible for defining product roadmap, pricing, positioning, account planning, and global go-to-market strategy for Mobile Broadband solutions with TATA’s Product, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Sales, and Finance teams.
  • Pipeline Growth - Grew customer base 10X working across 100+ Sales, Product, Marketing and Commercial Management resources globally on RFPs, proactive sales motions and account plans.
  • Product Spokesperson - Served as a keynote speaker at industry forums, including GSMA
  • Executive Engagement - Worked directly with Mobile operators (e.g. America Movil, Vodafone, AT&T, Digicel, Telefonica, etc) and tech leaders (e.g. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Skype, etc).
  • Top Employee - Named to TATA’s 2011 ProClub - the highest honor bestowed annually to 0.5% of the company workforce - in 2011.
Product RoadmapBusiness Development

Director | Business Development, Americas Region

Jan 2009Jan 2010 · 1 yr

  • Regional Remit - Oversaw Business Development for Voice services with Mobile/Wireless operators across US, Canada and Latin America.
  • Revenue Responsibility - Successfully delivered $XX Million Net Revenue per year while leading business development pursuits with +20 salespeople across eight countries.
Business DevelopmentRevenue Generation

Sales Specialist | Mobile Content Platform Solutions, North & South America

Promoted

Jan 2006Jan 2006 · 0 mo

  • Founding Member - Pioneered TATA’s foray into selling Mobile Content Management solutions to mobile operators across 15+ countries for monetizing mobile ringtones, wallpapers and games.
SalesBusiness Development

Business Development Manager | Latin America Partnerships

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

  • Top Performer - Delivered 10% of company revenue from strategic partnerships across 100+ major telecom operators across Latin America.
  • Market Maker - Led efforts to triple the company's presence in Brazil, establishing it as a "Top-5" market and capturing 15% of the global voice market share.

Business Development Manager | Asia Pacific & Latin America Partnerships

Jan 2003Jan 2004 · 1 yr

  • Regional Remit - Directed business development and spearheaded million-dollar network investments for the Latin American and Asia-Pacific regions, successfully managing and collaborating with a team of 25+ resources across 12 countries.
  • Operations Mastery - Overhauled processes that resulted in cost savings measured in millions of dollars annually and a dramatic 90% reduction in deployment time across global operations.

Sony pictures entertainment

Director | Mobile & Digital Content Distribution - Latin America

Jan 2006Jan 2009 · 3 yrs · Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  • Founding Member - Pioneered Sony’s Mobile entertainment business in Latin America, leading Sales, Business Development, and Product for the company across the 17+ countries.
  • Executive Presence - Spearheaded digital licensing negotiations with c-level executives at leading mobile operators, Internet portals, handset OEMs and cable TV / IPTV providers.
  • Consumer Remit - Directed mobile marketing campaigns for Sony’s three regional cable TV channels, collectively reaching 50 million TV households across Latin America.
  • Revenue Responsibility - Proposed, negotiated, closed and implemented 40+ content licensing agreements across the region generating millions of dollars in annual revenue.
  • Co-Marketing Mastery - Negotiated and implemented millions of dollars of co-marketing campaigns with mobile operators and consumer brands, including a landmark partnership with Sabritas promoting downloadable content from Sony Pictures on 250+ million CPG packages.
  • Regional Scale - Launched three mobile content portals, collectively reaching 350 million subscribers across 34 wireless operators in 17 countries.
  • Landmark Deal - Architected multi-million-dollar partnership with a top-3 US mobile operator and leading US Hispanic TV broadcaster to market and license digital content.
Business DevelopmentRevenue Generation

Sirius telecom

Director | Global Sales, Marketing & Business Development

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • Was employee #5, reported to the CEO and generated $XX Million annually across 36 countries.

Vonova communications

Director | Global Marketing

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr

  • Established the Marketing department at start-up providing international phone services.

Ernst & young consulting s.a.

Consultant | Telecom Industry Practice - Latin America

Jan 1998Jan 2000 · 2 yrs · Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

  • Advised clients like Telefonica Argentina, Telefonica Peru and Level3 across Latin America.

Accenture consulting

Consultant | Telecom Industry Practice

Jan 1996Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

  • Consulted Verizon at it’s NYC HQ during its formation from Bell Atlantic and NYNEX merger

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

LEAD Online Business Program

Jan 2021Jan 2022

SMU Cox School of Business

BBA — Marketing

Jan 1992Jan 1996

Southern Methodist University

BA — Economics

Jan 1992Jan 1996

SMU Cox School of Business

BBA — Management (OBBP)

Jan 1992Jan 1996

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