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Matthew Alexander
Chicago · Senior Marketing Leader

I build things that work.

Strategy, positioning, content & growth across B2B and B2C — sharpened by the AI tools I build myself. A decade of real revenue, real programs, real teams.

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The through-line

Give me a marketing function to own, and I'll return real revenuenot decks about revenue.

Numbers, on paper

What I've built.

Revenue driven
$0M
from a single $900K campaign at Cedar Electronics — four times the return
First-season sales
$0M
from a brand-new consumer product launch at Perimeter Solutions
Built an AI system
$0K
in overhead removed — as our marketing team shrank, I built a production AI system to absorb the roles we were losing
Team led today
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cross-functional, across partnerships, growth, events & enablement
What I do

One operator, the whole function.

I own marketing end to end — strategy through execution to measurement — which is why I fit brand, growth, GTM, analytics, and AI-forward roles alike. Five things I do, each backed by real results.

01

Strategy & Positioning

Research-grounded strategy, positioning, and messaging. At Impact I ran primary research end to end and translated it into the yearly marketing strategy I presented directly to clients.

Research → strategy → GTM
02

Content & Brand

Brand standards, content roadmaps, and storytelling. I've directed website, content, and creative agencies through execution — turning positioning into the assets that actually ship.

Led content & creative
03

Digital, Growth & Performance

Paid media, SEM/SEO, funnel, and conversion. On Project Apex I drove a 4× return on a $900K program — +210% ROAS and +700% site traffic.

+210% ROAS · +700% traffic
04

Measurement & Insight

Analytics, reporting, and insight-to-action — rooted in a primary-research foundation, quantitative and qualitative, that turns data into decisions rather than dashboards.

Quant + qual insight
05

Applied AI

AI I build myself. A production AI marketing system on Anthropic's API and a live synthetic buyer-research lab — tools that make the whole function faster and sharper. Almost no other generalist can say that.

Builds his own AI tools
Selected work · Campaigns

Campaigns that paid off.

01
Escort Radar · Cedar Electronics

Project Apex

Cedar Electronics — parent of the Escort Radar and Cobra brands — committed $900K to grow the Escort line of radar detectors. I led the program end to end — paid media strategy, go-to-market, and product marketing — directing the in-house team plus website, content, and creative agencies. The flagship Redline 360c anchored the push.

$3.6MReturned on $900K
+210%ROAS
+50%YoY flagship sales
+700%Site traffic
+312%Engagement
Escort Redline 360c radar detector
Return on ad spend · trailing 12 months+0%
Launch 12 months
02
Perimeter Solutions · GTM Launch

Phos-Chek Home Defense

Perimeter makes the red retardant crews drop on wildfires. They concentrated it into a consumer product — spray it on your home to defend your property. I led digital marketing for the launch: full strategy and execution across web, social, content, and creative, coordinating every agency and in-house resource.

$1MLaunch sales
200%Of the $500K quota
0→1New category
Featured case study · Fulcrum Digital · 2026

The system.

Most marketing teams scale by adding people. As ours was shrinking, I scaled it by building a system.

We were already losing people on the marketing team. Rather than backfill the roles, I built an AI system to absorb them — what began as a way to keep the work flowing became a full production pipeline: autonomous agents, orchestrated through a custom Anthropic API integration, that take on the work of an entire content function and run it on a monthly cadence behind a single human approval gate.

Three input streams — live market signals, brand knowledge encoded as Claude Skills, and real search performance — feed a central orchestrator that assembles shared context, enforces one consistent brand voice, and dispatches structured briefs to two specialist agents: a Social agent and an SEO agent, each on its own schedule. Everything routes to a human for sign-off before it publishes — the speed of automation without giving up editorial control.

The same output that used to require a seven-person function, produced by two agents running monthly and autonomously — removing roughly $520K in annual overhead. Not a prototype or a proof of concept. A live system doing real work.

$520KAnnual overhead removed
7 → 2Roles replaced by agents
MonthlyAutonomous cadence · 1 human gate
AI Marketing Operating System — full architecture diagram, end to end
The full system architecture, end to end: input signals → orchestrator assembles context + brand voice → agents draft → human approves → published.
Live · interactive

Don't take my word — try it.

The Synthetic Buyer Lab, running live. A modeled panel of 1,000 construction decision-makers you can survey and interview right here — the kind of research infrastructure I build.

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Cross-industry range

Every category, learned fast.

The categories change. The method doesn't.

Strong positioning, content, and growth travel across any industry — and I've proven it in five very different ones. That range is exactly why I ramp into a new category quickly instead of needing years to learn it.

Consumer electronics & tech
Escort Radar & Cobra at Cedar Electronics — flagship product growth and paid media.
Industrial & safety
Phos-Chek wildfire home defense at Perimeter Solutions — a brand-new consumer category, launched.
Foodservice & CPG
Rosseto Serving Solutions — direct-to-consumer channel and web presence, built from the ground up.
Construction
Buildots — a synthetic buyer-research lab modeling 1,000 decision-makers.
B2B & professional services
Impact agency clients and Fulcrum Digital — strategy, partnerships, and enablement.

Bottom line: I'm effectively industry-agnostic — the fundamentals don't care what you sell.

About

A decade, built quietly.

Matthew Alexander
Chicago

I'm a senior marketing leader with roughly a decade across B2B services, consumer technology, and DTC — today leading a cross-functional team of eight at Fulcrum Digital.

The through-line across every role: I build things that work. Real revenue, real programs, real teams. I'm most useful when a company needs someone to own a marketing function end-to-end — from strategy through the messy work of shipping.

My foundation is marketing research. At Impact Marketing I ran full research campaigns end to end — primary research through surveys and interviews, quantitative and qualitative — then translated the findings into yearly strategy I presented directly to clients and put into action alongside their teams.

But if there's one thing I'm known for, it's building the relationships that make hard things possible. At Fulcrum I inherited two teams with a history of friction and a flagship website stalled for nearly a year. Rather than route around it, I rebuilt trust between them — and the website that had been stuck for a year finally shipped.

Growth MarketingPartnershipsEvent ProgramsPrimary ResearchGTM StrategyTeam Leadership
Experience

Where I've been.

2026 — Present

Director, Strategic Partnerships & Growth Marketing

Fulcrum Digital
2023 — 2026

Senior Marketing Manager

Cedar Electronics · Escort Radar & Cobra
2020 — 2023

Senior Marketing & Business Strategist

Impact Managed Marketing Agency
2019 — 2020

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

Perimeter Solutions · SK Capital
2016 — 2019

Marketing Specialist

Rosseto Serving Solutions
B.S. Marketing & Advertising
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Mini MBA in Marketing
Marketing Week · Prof. Mark Ritson · 2023
The next role

Where I'm useful.

How I work

  • I own the whole function — strategy, positioning, content, growth, and measurement, not just one slice
  • I build the tools I need, AI included, instead of waiting on headcount or budget
  • An expert relationship builder who aligns internal teams and external partners
  • I ramp into any category fast — the fundamentals travel across industries

What I'm looking for

Senior marketing roles across B2B and B2C — Manager through Director — where I can own the strategy and drive the execution. Open to startups through enterprise, and effectively industry-agnostic.

  • Marketing Strategy & Leadership
  • Brand, Content & Creative
  • Digital, Growth & Performance
  • Product, Portfolio & GTM Marketing
  • Marketing Analytics & Insight · Applied AI / AI-enablement
Recommendations

In their words.

Matthew’s outcome-oriented approach to delivery, willingness to “roll up his sleeves,” and collaborative personality have led to meaningful delivery for the companies and projects he has supported.”
AOAlexander Oda
Alexander OdaHead of Market Execution, Global Construction · Zurich North America
His ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, communicate insights effectively, and drive projects to completion is outstanding.”
KMKevin Meyer
Kevin MeyerExecutive Director, Marketing Strategy & Ops · Impact Managed Marketing
Matthew possesses a very strong work ethic and a “do whatever it takes” attitude — in short time he gave me the trust and confidence to lead projects from beginning to end.”
JBJohn Burns
John BurnsBusiness Unit Director · Perimeter Solutions LP
Matthew has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees.”
ADAmy Dharmani
Amy DharmaniMarketing Manager · Rosseto Serving Solutions
Matt brings a deeply curious, thoughtful and analytical mindset to his marketing plans — he works really well cross-functionally and brings out the best in the teams he works with.”
ARAdam Robertson
Adam RobertsonHead of Marketing · Cedar Electronics
Matthew has extensive SEO, marketing analytics and pay-per-click knowledge — and impressed me with his ability to coordinate every internal and external stakeholder to make the project a resounding success.”
HMHerb Mathers
Herb MathersMarketing Automation & Email Specialist
Say hello

Let's build something
that works.

mealexander1992@gmail.com