

Executive Guidance
Toptal
Toptal invites business trailblazers to share their insights on information security, artificial intelligence, cloud services, marketing, management consulting, innovation, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 41min
The Importance of Content Distribution and Brand Authority: Lessons From Stacker’s CEO
Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Stacker Co-founder and CEO Noah Greenberg as they explore how modern brands turn content into a true growth engine. Noah, whose content distribution platform is used by brands like Sofi and Redfin, shares insights on data-driven storytelling, brand authority, and why distribution, not volume, is what separates high-performing content teams from the rest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 20, 2026 • 39min
Navigating GEO and AI Search: Lessons From Scrunch’s Head of Marketing
Join Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, and Scrunch’s Head of Marketing, Kevin White, as they explore how AI-powered search is reshaping buyer behavior and discovery. Kevin shares insights on navigating GEO, why experimentation matters more than best practices, and how clarity, structure, and customer-first thinking are essential to winning visibility in the age of LLM-driven search. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 9, 2026 • 42min
The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Lessons From Yahoo’s Director of Security GRC
Join Toptal’s Cyber and Information Security Services Practice Lead, Zohra Ibrahimi, and Yahoo’s Director of Security GRC, Steven Asifo, as they explore how modern security leaders can build strong security cultures at scale. Steven shares insights on making security approachable and why communication, trust, and human-centered leadership are essential to effective risk management in an AI-enabled world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 2, 2026 • 39min
Why Great Marketing Starts With Business Mastery: Insights From Lumivero
In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Lumivero CMO Tessa Barron joins Toptal’s Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead, Jeff Gangemi, to share her journey from marketing execution to strategic leadership. Learn how she builds proactive, audience-driven teams and why true marketing impact starts with fully understanding the business. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 5, 2025 • 42min
Redefining Go-to-Market Strategy With Focused Execution: Lessons from Pavilion CEO Sam Jacobs
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 28, 2025 • 42min
How AWS Is Helping Enterprises Build, Scale, and Innovate With AI
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 18, 2025 • 44min
Turning Personalization Into Performance: Lessons From Movable Ink
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 3, 2025 • 42min
AI and the Future of B2B Marketing: Insights From Chili Piper’s Co-founder
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 6, 2025 • 39min
Personalization at Scale: How AI Will Rewrite the Marketing Playbook
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 26, 2025 • 33min
Cloud, AI, and the Future of Public Safety: Insights From CentralSquare’s CPO
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


