Damian Marano

Founding Head of GTM at Sundial.ai | Trustworthy AI for the enterprise | Former Founder, Global Sales Exec, CPG Operator

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Sundialex-Docklight Brandsex-The Coca-Cola Company

Founding Head of Go-to-Market at ai.

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We're building an opinionated analytics intelligence platform that embeds expert context into AI outputs — making them trustworthy for enterprise revenue and supply chain 25 years across commercial leadership, founding, and operating. Most recently led GTM for restaurant industry AI at Deepgram. Before that, nearly two decades at The Coca-Cola Company, and founded Docklight Brands — scaling the Marley brand it to 25,000+ retail doors across 40+ countries. MBA, Berkeley Haas. , What I care about: building teams where people actually grow, solving problems customers care about, and shipping work that holds up. Based in San Francisco.

Career Timeline

GTM Index

  1. DEEPGRAMJOB
    1. Founding Head of GTM, Deep…
      10M
  2. SUNDIALJOB
    1. Founding Head of GTM
      4M
  3. THE COCA-COLA COMPANYJOB
    1. Global Dir Sales and BD
      2Y 5M
    2. VP of National Sales
      12Y 5M
  4. H2O.AIJOB
    1. BD Consultant CPG, Retail…
      1Y 2M
  5. DOCKLIGHT BRANDSJOB
    1. Chief Executive Officer an…
      5Y
  6. AHL SERVICES, AIR SERV, COFFEECOLJOB
    1. Early Career Roles
      7Y 5M

Time in market 27Y 7MOpen 2Closed 5Stints 7

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  1. Job: Docklight Brands — Chief Executive Officer and Founder · 2018-10 – 2023-10
  2. Job: Deepgram — Founding Head of Go-to-Market, Deepgram for Restaurants · 2025-10 – present
  3. Job: The Coca-Cola Company — Global Director Sales and Business Development · 2023-05 – 2025-10
  4. Job: AHL Services, AIr Serv, Coffeecol — Early Career Roles · 1999-01 – 2006-06
  5. Job: H2O.ai — Business Development Consultant CPG, Retail and Restaurant Sales · 2023-10 – 2024-12
  6. Job: Sundial — Founding Head of GTM at Sundial.ai · 2026-04 – present
  7. Job: The Coca-Cola Company — Vice President of National Sales · 2006-06 – 2018-11

Skills

Digital TransformationStrategy Solution SellingEnterprise Technology SalesB2B SaaS SalesCustomer AnalysisLeadership DevelopmentContract Negotiation Commercial Law Licensing Mergers & AcquisitionsStartup Leadership Founding & Scaling Companies Venture-Backed Operations Product-Market FitExecutive Leadership Team Building Organizational Development Board Management OperationsP&L Management General Management Corporate Strategy Cross-Functional LeadershipBrand Strategy Brand Building Trade Marketing Retail Strategy International Expansion Supply ChainConsumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Beverage Industry Foodservice Category ManagementConversational AI AI-Driven Revenue StrategyAI Strategy Applied AI . AI Product Strategy Analytics Data Strategy Large Language Models (LLMs)Strategic Partnerships Account Management PipeRevenue & Profit GrowthInterpersonal SkillsGenerative AI for SalesArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business Relationship Management

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