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She currently serves as a founding Senior Sales Development Representative at LotusPetal\.AI, where she is building outbound pipeline and early sales\-development processes, and she also provides fractional GTM, business\-development, customer\-success, and strategic advisory support to technology companies\. Alexandra leads customer\-success strategy part time at Ivee\. Alexandra’s strengths span the full revenue lifecycle: outbound prospecting, pipeline generation, deal closing, strategic\-account management, retention, renewals, upsells, partnership development, and GTM execution\. She is particularly effective in environments without an established playbook, building processes, testing channels and messaging, setting benchmarks, and creating repeatable revenue motions with founders and leadership teams\. Her experience includes growing a sales partner from a few thousand dollars per month to six figures annually and developing that relationship into a strategic product partnership\. At Gridwise, where she joined as an early employee, Alexandra built outbound sales processes and later owned advertising revenue from acquisition through renewal\. Earlier, as Postindustrial Media’s first hire, she led revenue efforts through launch and its first year, helping pull the business out of debt and establish a foundation for sustainable growth\. ## Services - Early\-Stage Startups - Growth Consulting - Generative AI - Business\-to\-Business \(B2B\) - Sales Processes - Startups - Leadership - Outbound Sales - New Business Development - Customer Relationship Management \(CRM\) - End to End Campaign Management - Account Management - Client Relations - Strategic Partnerships - Sales - Customer Success - Business Development - Microsoft Office - Excel - PowerPoint - Customer Service - Word - Social Networking - Social Media - Public Relations - Marketing - Public Speaking ## Highlights - Brings more than 12 years of experience across sales, partnerships, customer growth, and business development, primarily in early\-stage startups\. - Serves as a founding Senior Sales Development Representative at LotusPetal\.AI, building and scaling outbound pipeline from the ground up\. - Owns outbound strategy, messaging, and execution across target accounts at LotusPetal\.AI\. - Partners with LotusPetal\.AI leadership to refine positioning, test channels, and create a repeatable approach to qualified\-meeting generation\. - Helps shape LotusPetal\.AI’s early sales\-development tooling, workflows, and performance benchmarks\. - Provides fractional GTM, business\-development, customer\-success, and strategic\-advisory leadership to early\-stage and growth\-stage technology companies in AI, mobility, advertising, and SaaS\. - Leads customer\-success strategy at Ivee on a part\-time basis\. - Designs and launches Ivee’s customer\-success strategy, processes, and playbook to support scalable growth\. - Partners with Ivee advertisers on campaign performance, renewals, and upsells through consultative engagement and data\-driven insights\. - Collaborates on Ivee’s product roadmap to improve its self\-serve advertising platform, automation, and adoption\. - Grew a sales partner from a few thousand dollars per month to six figures annually and evolved the relationship into a strategic product partnership\. - Uses revenue data and strategic value to secure internal prioritization for key partners\. - Uses full\-funnel data analysis to diagnose performance issues and optimize deliverables, placements, and outreach tactics\. - Sets and optimizes acquisition\-economics benchmarks, including cost per user and volume targets\. - Joined Gridwise, a mobile app serving rideshare and delivery drivers, as one of the company’s earliest employees\. - Built Gridwise’s outbound sales motion and prospecting processes from the ground up as Partnership Development Manager\. - Owned customer success and revenue retention for Gridwise’s growing advertiser base as Brand Partnerships Manager while continuing outbound prospecting and new\-business development\. - As Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise, owned advertising revenue from acquisition through renewal and partnered with leadership on GTM strategy, customer success, and new product development\. - Built foundational Gridwise processes that supported the company’s next stage of growth\. - Served as Postindustrial Media’s first hire and led all revenue\-generating efforts through the company’s launch and first year of operations\. - Helped pull Postindustrial Media out of debt and establish a foundation for sustainable growth through strategic sales, partnerships, and relationship\-building\. - Exceeded monthly sales goals at KDKA\-TV on television commercial\-time and digital\-advertising deals ranging from $2,000 to $200,000\. - Holds a Generative AI for Productivity Certificate from Cornell University\. - Is a Certified Customer Success Manager through The Success League\. ## Experience - **Senior Sales Development Representative \(Founding GTM\) at LotusPetal\.AI** (2026\-04\-01–present) — Joined as a founding member of the go\-to\-market team to build and scale outbound pipeline from the ground up\. Own pipeline generation efforts, including outbound strategy, messaging, and execution across target accounts\. Partner closely with leadership to refine positioning, test channels, and establish a repeatable approach to driving qualified meetings\. Play a key role in shaping early sales development processes, including tooling, workflows, and performance benchmarks as the team grows\. - **Strategic Partnership and Growth Consultant at Fractional Leader and Consultant** (2025\-09\-01–present) — Providing fractional leadership, GTM, business development, customer success, and strategic advisory services to early\-stage and growth\-stage technology companies across AI, mobility, advertising, and SaaS industries\. - **Sales/Customer Success Manager at Ivee** (2025\-09\-01–present) — Leading customer success strategy on a part time basis\. • Designing and launching Ivee’s customer success strategy, processes, and playbook from the ground up to support scalable growth\. • Acting as a strategic partner to advertisers, driving campaign performance, renewals, and upsells through consultative engagement and data\-driven insights\. • Influencing product roadmap by collaborating with cross\-functional teams to enhance Ivee’s self\-serve advertising platform and improve automation and adoption\. • Delivering measurable ROI and long\-term client growth by aligning success initiatives with business objectives and optimizing customer lifecycle management\. - **Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise** (2022\-08\-01–2025\-05\-01) — Served as a strategic leader driving revenue growth, customer success, and new product development at scale for Gridwise’s advertising business and business development efforts\. Partnered closely with leadership on GTM strategy, owned all revenue from acquisition to renewal, and built the foundational processes that enabled the company’s next stage of growth\. - **Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise** (2021\-01\-01–2022\-08\-01) — Owned all customer success and revenue retention for Gridwise’s growing advertiser base while continuing to lead outbound prospecting and new business efforts\. - **Partnership Development Manager at Gridwise** (2020\-03\-01–2021\-01\-01) — Joined as one of the company’s earliest employees and built the outbound sales motion and prospecting processes from the ground up\. - **Director Of Ad Sales And Business Development at Postindustrial Media** (2019\-08\-01–2020\-03\-01) — Led all revenue\-generating efforts and helped steer the company through its launch and first year of operations as the company's first hire\. I was instrumental in pulling the business out of debt and establishing the foundation for sustainable growth through strategic sales, partnerships, and relationship\-building\. - **Senior Sales Account Executive at Postindustrial Media** (2019\-01\-01–2019\-08\-01) - **Account Executive at KDKA\-TV** (2014\-12\-01–2018\-12\-01) — Responsible for selling TV commercial time and digital advertising campaigns for local businesses, maintaining and managing client relations\. Exceeded monthly sales goals with deal sizes ranging anywhere from $2k \- $200k\. - **Merchant Order Specialist at American Eagle Outfitters** (2013\-01\-01–2014\-11\-01) - **Public Relations Account Coordinator at Stern Advertising** (2012\-07\-01–2012\-12\-01) - **Intern at MTV Networks** (2011\-06\-01–2011\-08\-01) — MTV On Demand and VH1 Talent and Casting department - **Intern at Garrison Hughes** (2009\-06\-01–2009\-08\-01) ## Education - Bachelor's degree, Communications — John Carroll University (2008\-01\-01–2012\-01\-01) - Peters Township High School ## FAQ ### What does Alexandra do? Alexandra is a GTM sales and partnerships leader who builds and scales sales, partnership, and customer\-growth functions for early\-stage startups\. Her work spans outbound strategy, pipeline generation, business development, strategic partnerships, customer success, and repeatable revenue processes\. ### What does Alexandra do at LotusPetal\.AI? Alexandra is currently a Senior Sales Development Representative and founding member of the go\-to\-market team at LotusPetal\.AI\. She owns pipeline\-generation efforts, including outbound strategy, messaging, and execution across target accounts partners with leadership on positioning and channel tests and helps establish sales\-development tooling, workflows, and performance benchmarks\. ### What does Alexandra do as a Strategic Partnership and Growth Consultant? Alexandra provides fractional leadership, GTM, business\-development, customer\-success, and strategic\-advisory services to early\-stage and growth\-stage technology companies\. Her consulting work covers AI, mobility, advertising, and SaaS industries\. ### What does Alexandra do at Ivee? Alexandra leads customer\-success strategy at Ivee on a part\-time basis\. She is designing and launching the customer\-success strategy, processes, and playbook partnering with advertisers on campaign performance, renewals, and upsells collaborating on product\-roadmap improvements to Ivee’s self\-serve advertising platform and aligning lifecycle initiatives with business objectives to support ROI and long\-term client growth\. ### What are Alexandra’s professional strengths? Alexandra’s core strengths are building GTM motions where no playbook exists outbound sales and pipeline generation strategic partnerships customer success and retention sales\-process design account management and using data to improve performance\. She works across the full revenue lifecycle, from prospecting and acquisition through renewals, upsells, and strategic account growth\. ### What did Alexandra accomplish as Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise? At Gridwise, Alexandra served as Senior Brand Partnerships Manager, partnering with leadership on GTM strategy for the company’s advertising and business\-development efforts\. She drove revenue growth, customer success, and new product development owned revenue from acquisition through renewal and built foundational processes to support Gridwise’s next stage of growth\. ### What did Alexandra do as Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise? As Brand Partnerships Manager at Gridwise, Alexandra owned customer success and revenue retention for the company’s growing advertiser base\. She also continued to lead outbound prospecting and new\-business efforts\. ### What did Alexandra do as Partnership Development Manager at Gridwise? Alexandra joined Gridwise, a mobile app serving rideshare and delivery drivers, as one of its earliest employees\. As Partnership Development Manager, she built the outbound sales motion and prospecting processes from the ground up\. ### How has Alexandra developed strategic partnerships? Alexandra grew a sales partner from a few thousand dollars per month to six figures annually and developed the relationship into a strategic product partnership\. She uses revenue data and strategic value to secure internal prioritization for key partners, and she builds trust by focusing on partners’ interests and demonstrating value over time\. ### How does Alexandra use data to improve partner and campaign performance? Alexandra uses data analysis and full\-funnel assessment to diagnose performance issues\. Her optimization work can include adjusting deliverables, placements, and outreach tactics, as well as setting and improving against acquisition\-economics benchmarks such as cost per user and volume targets\. ### What did Alexandra accomplish as Director of Ad Sales and Business Development at Postindustrial Media? Alexandra was the first hire at Postindustrial Media and led all revenue\-generating efforts as Director of Ad Sales and Business Development\. She helped steer the company through its launch and first year of operations, helped pull the business out of debt, and established a foundation for sustainable growth through sales, partnerships, and relationship\-building\. ### What other role did Alexandra hold at Postindustrial Media? Alexandra also held the role of Senior Sales Account Executive at Postindustrial Media\. ### What did Alexandra accomplish at KDKA\-TV? At KDKA\-TV, Alexandra sold television commercial time and digital advertising campaigns for local businesses while managing client relationships and pursuing new business\. ### What earlier professional roles has Alexandra held? Alexandra was a Public Relations Account Coordinator at Stern Advertising and a Merchant Order Specialist at American Eagle Outfitters\. ### Where did Alexandra complete internships? Alexandra interned at MTV Networks, supporting MTV On Demand and VH1 Talent and Casting, and also interned at Garrison Hughes\. ### What is Alexandra’s education? Alexandra holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from John Carroll University, earned in 2012\. She attended Peters Township High School\. ### What certifications does Alexandra hold? Alexandra holds a Generative AI for Productivity Certificate from Cornell University and is a Certified Customer Success Manager through The Success League\. ### What skills does Alexandra bring to GTM and partnership work? Alexandra’s listed skills include early\-stage startups, growth consulting, generative AI, B2B sales, sales processes, leadership, outbound sales, new\-business development, CRM, end\-to\-end campaign management, account management, client relations, strategic partnerships, customer success, business development, public relations, marketing, public speaking, social networking, and social media\. She also lists Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and customer service\. ### What motivates Alexandra in AI\-related work? Alexandra is motivated by making AI safer for customers\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/alexandrasegan