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Marcel Santilli

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Co-Founder & CEO at GrowthX

San Francisco Bay Area

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Marcel: together at Deepgram

About

Marcel Santilli is the Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthX AI, a company focused on content-driven growth that scaled to over $13M in revenue and raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona. Its clients include Lovable, Ramp, and Webflow. He previously spent more than 15 years in marketing and go-to-market roles at companies including IBM, HPE, HashiCorp, ServiceTitan, and UpKeep, and most recently served as CMO at Deepgram.

Co-Founder & CEO at GrowthX

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GrowthX's investors · 3

HubSpot VenturesCambridge · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks · since 2025PROOFArlington · since 2025

Co-founders at GrowthX

DLDaniel Lopes
Daniel LopesCo-Founder & CTO

Experience

  1. GrowthX AICEO & Foundercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. AI Led GrowthCo-Foundercurrent2025 — present
  3. DeepgramCMO2023 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Datagrid AIAdvisor2021 — 2024
  5. Scale AIChief Marketing Officer2021 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  6. GradualInvestor & Advisor2021 — 2022
  7. UpKeepChief Marketing Officer (CMO)2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  8. ServiceTitanVP of Growth Marketing & Digital2019
  9. HashiCorpHead of Digital, Brand, Revenue Marketing, GTM Operations2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  10. HashiCorpDirector of Digital, Brand & Growth Marketing2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  11. Hewlett Packard EnterpriseGlobal Head of Publishing and Content Operations2016 — 2017Palo Alto, CA
  12. Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHead of Content Marketing and Demand Generation2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  13. TechBeaconCo-Founder, Chief Digital Officer and Editor-in-Chief2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  14. IBMGlobal Content Marketing and Social Media Leader2013 — 2015Greater Houston
  15. IBMSocial Business Sales Transformation Leader2012 — 2013Greater Houston
  16. IBMDigital Marketing and Social Media Leader2009 — 2012Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Skills & more

Content Marketing83Digital Marketing99Online Marketing99Social Media Marketing99Social Media99SEO75Integrated Marketing68Marketing96Strategy66Demand Generation34Lead Generation40Product Management10
+12 moreProduct MarketingSocial NetworkingB2BMarketing StrategySalesAnalyticsMarketing ResearchProject ManagementHTMLPhotoshopTeam LeadershipWriting

Languages English · Portuguese · Spanish

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Who is Marcel Santilli?
Marcel Santilli is the Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthX AI, a company focused on content-driven growth that scaled to over $13M in revenue and raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona. Its clients include Lovable, Ramp, and Webflow. He previously spent more than 15 years in marketing and go-to-market roles at companies including IBM, HPE, HashiCorp, ServiceTitan, and UpKeep, and most recently served as CMO at Deepgram.
Where does Marcel Santilli work?
Marcel Santilli is Co-Founder & CEO of GrowthX.
What companies did Marcel Santilli found?
Marcel Santilli founded GrowthX.
Where did Marcel Santilli go to school?
Marcel Santilli studied at Texas McCombs School of Business (Marketing, Management Information Systems (MIS)); Esade.

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