MATT ODEN

SALES LEADER | AI & CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

GTM executive and former AI company founder who has scaled businesses from $0 to tens of millions in ARR and managed enterprise portfolios worth tens of millions at web-scale infrastructure and AI platforms. Expert at building repeatable pipeline engines, closing multi-million dollar strategic deals, and mapping complex organizations to expand wallet share across departments. Deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, databases, edge compute, and AI/ML enables high-trust consultative selling in multi-stakeholder enterprise cycles.

Track Record: 15+ years consistent over-attainment | $0→$12M+ ARR in 18 months | 250% quota for 6 consecutive quarters | Landed and expanded Fortune 100 deals ($1M+ ACV) across multiple verticals and SaaS categories | Built startup and mid-market pipeline engines | Hired and coached 15+ AEs with 5+ to President's Club (200%+ quota)

Leadership & Operations: Built revenue operations—MEDDPICC, territory design, forecasting, pricing models | Paired AEs with SEs for technical selling, collaborate with SDRs for pipeline generation, and establish customer feedback loops driving product strategy | Product marketing and sales asset creation and collaboration | High Team forecast accuracy and pipeline hygiene/cadence | Channel sales

Education: Yale University M.E.M. | UC Berkeley B.S.

EXPERIENCE

Execify

Los Angeles, CA

Founder & CEO

December 2022 – October 2025

Founded an AI agent platform for executive operations using GCP, OpenAI, Azure, Groq, Langchain, Supabase, and multi-LLM orchestration.

  • Raised $500K pre-seed, generated $500K qualified pipeline and closed 6-figures in revenue. Acquired 2 public company customers and achieved SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001
  • Built dual GTM: Enterprise sales playbook + PLG funnel serving 200+ customers across free and paid tiers
  • Product managed a suite of tools that ran 11 AI agents with RAG, vector search, and agentic reasoning across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoom, Slack, and Teams

Fastly (IPO - FSLY)

San Francisco (Remote)

Associate Vice President of Sales, Serverless Compute

January 2020 – November 2022

Built and scaled GTM for edge compute business unit (Compute@Edge) and launch of globally distributed database products for KV Store, Secret Store and Config Store. Led team of 3 Technical Sales Overlays.

  • Scaled $0→$12M+ ARR in 18 months across 125 accounts (Amazon.com, eBay, Pantheon, LaunchDarkly, Contentful)
  • Delivered 250% of quota for 6 consecutive quarters, top performer globally. Coached team to President's Club (200%+ attainment)
  • Built GTM playbook adopted company-wide; reduced sales cycle from 9 to 5 months.

Associate Vice President of Sales, Central Region (Interim)

January 2022 – July 2022

Promoted to rebuild and turn around underperforming 11-person region while maintaining Serverless responsibilities.

  • Delivered 150% of quota while hiring 7 AEs in 2 quarters. Improved forecast accuracy 55% to 95% and increased deal size 35%

General Manager, Managed CDN

June 2019 – January 2020
  • Preserved $20M+ ARR through consultative renegotiations with five S&P 500 customers to migrate from on-prem to cloud solution

Associate Vice President of Sales, Media & Entertainment

January 2018 – June 2019
  • Closed 7-figure deals with Disney, Fox, Hulu, CBS, Spotify, NYT—120%+ quota for 6 consecutive quarters
  • Landed first-ever Super Bowl live stream and Twitter Live events on Fastly infrastructure. Led Gannett edge data and streaming re-architecture

PRIOR SALES EXPERIENCE | 2014 – 2018

VP Sales, Vertebrae (Acquired by Snap), 2017 - 2018 | 3D/AR commerce. Closed $250K in media customer deals during platform pivot.

Sales Director, Dataxu (Acquired by Roku), 2016 - 2017 | Programmatic DSP. Opened HPE account, scaled to $5M+ year 1 spend. Designed and sold a new B2B multi-vendor programmatic advertising database solution.

Sales Director and Sales Engineer, Turn (Acquired by Singtel), 2014 - 2016 | Ad tech. Promoted from Sr. Sales Eng to Sales Director. Built $40M+ annual revenue book across Microsoft, Viacom, WPP, Omnicom, Publicis Groupe, Williams Sonoma, Gap, and Expedia. Sold customer data DMP product into prospects data lake architecture.

EARLY CAREER | PRODUCT & TECHNICAL | 2011 – 2014

Sr. Product Manager, Causata (Acquired by NICE) | Led product strategy for enterprise marketing automation. Helped sell AI/ML infrastructure to data science and engineering teams.

Product Manager, C3 AI | Designed product for first major enterprise sale to PG&E. Identified and helped secure the first M&A transaction (25 person company) through my contacts and relationships.