Executive Guidance

Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Pavilion’s Founder and CEO, Sam Jacobs, as they explore how modern leadership is evolving. Sam shares how Pavilion helps go-to-market leaders accelerate their careers through clarity, education, and community, while redefining what it means to build organizations rooted in focus and long-term growth.

Join Toptal’s Cloud Services Practice Lead, TJ Urglavitch, and Divyesh Shah, Head of Partner Solutions Architecture at AWS, as they explore how AWS is shaping the future of cloud and AI through partnership and innovation. Divyesh shares how AWS empowers its partner ecosystem to deliver measurable impact, integrate responsible AI, and enable enterprises to build secure, scalable, and trusted solutions.

Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Movable Ink’s VP of Growth Marketing, Justin Keller, as they discuss how AI and creative automation are reshaping personalization. Justin shares how Movable Ink helps brands transform data into meaningful, one-to-one experiences, combining technology, creativity, and strategy to deepen customer engagement and drive growth.

In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Toptal’s Jeff Gangemi sits down with Chili Piper Co-founder and Co-CEO, Alina Vandenberghe. Alina shares her journey from engineering and sales into entrepreneurship, and how she built Chili Piper into a global company redefining B2B growth. They explore how AI agents are transforming top-of-funnel marketing, and what it really takes to lead with authenticity in a remote-first world.

Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Jon Miller, co-founder of Marketo and CEO and co-founder of a stealth AI startup, as they explore how AI will reshape B2B marketing. Jon shares why the old playbook of gated content and marketing-qualified leads is losing effectiveness, how personalization remains marketing’s north star, and why AI is the platform shift that will unlock the next generation of martech.

In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, CentralSquare Technologies CPO Brian Fugere sits down with Toptal’s  Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, to share how his team is bringing modern technology to one of the world’s most critical sectors: government operations. Brian discusses product strategy for always-on public safety systems, the role of AI in automating field reports and inspections, and why combining UX discipline with deep domain knowledge is key to success in govtech.

In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, MetLife’s SVP and CMO of Regional and Institutional Marketing, Global Customer Insights, Koley Corte joins Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi to explore how she leads one of the most complex marketing portfolios in global financial services. Koley shares how customer insight drives her strategy, how she balances depth and scale across markets, and why real leadership means knowing both your people and your numbers.

In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Avid CMO Angela Stelle sits down with Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, to share how she’s helping a legendary brand evolve for a new generation. Angela reflects on the leadership lessons learned from years of cross-functional experience and explains how building the right team, driving brand reinvention, and showing up with confidence and humility are key to lasting impact.

Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Publicis Media AI Strategy Lead, Jason Smith, as they explore how AI is transforming media strategy. Jason shares insights on the role of AI in audience segmentation, creative testing, and campaign optimization, while emphasizing the importance of responsible AI governance.