Bhanu Chawla London 2026

I build AI‑native marketing engines and teams that ship pipeline that actually closes.

Senior Marketing Leader. 15 years experience, $1B+ in pipeline generated, four scale-ups, one PE-backed group, every funnel stage. Engineer by training, marketer by trade.

$1B+lifetime pipeline
$100M+paid media at 4x ROAS
+80%pipeline growth, current role
What I do

A marketing function, run like product engineering.

Four things I do daily. Each one looks different from how most VP of Marketing/CMO roles are wired.

$claude#brand-corpus
indexed 1,284 assets
draft ABM page · Tier 1 Account
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spin 24-page report
01 / AI-native function

Build AI-native marketing functions.

I run marketing teams where Claude Code, Clay, HubSpot AI, and modern image models are core daily infrastructure. We ship reports, ABM pages, and full creative sets in days, not months.

Visitors
100%
Identified
78%
MQL
52%
SQL
31%
Closed
18%
02 / Demand engine

Rebuild demand engines.

I diagnose, rip out, and rebuild B2B demand engines on HubSpot, Marketo, or whatever the stack is. I focus on intent, ABM, and pipeline that closes, not MQL theatre.

verticals
Distribution Automotive Payments Field Service FinTech Rental
03 / Story

Translate complex products into clear stories.

Multi-vertical ERP, payments, AI claims automation, sanctions screening, talent platforms. I turn complex enterprise software into positioning, narrative, and pipeline.

MarketingABM tier-1 list, 240 accounts.
SalesConfirmed. Outreach plays loaded.
ProductDemo data ready for the top 10.
Pipeline+£3.4M booked, week one.
04 / Team sport

Run growth as a team sport.

I partner closely with sales, product, and revenue. Marketing is a function that compounds when it's wired into the rest of the business, not when it's a creative silo.

Recent work / 2025–2026

What an AI-native marketing function actually ships.

A working list. Things that went live this year. The point is the operating model, not the artefacts.

Internal tooling

Built a company-wide "second brain" with Claude Code.

Used by marketing, sales, and product. Search, summarise, draft, and generate against the full corpus of brand, product, and customer assets.

RAMVigoSilk Moth InspHireKerridgeAutopart AutoworkOnRentKlipboard.io
Masterbrand
Brand

Consolidated nine legacy brands into one Klipboard masterbrand.

RAM, Vigo, Silk Moth, Savant, K8, Autopart, Autowork, OnRent, and Klipboard itself, unified under a single positioning, identity, and go-to-market.

Vertical 01Distribution
Vertical 02Automotive
Vertical 03Rental
Vertical 04Field Service
Product launch

Launched the company's first AI product line across four verticals.

Distribution, Automotive, Rental, Field Service. Positioning, naming, launch motion, sales enablement, and demand all owned end to end.

+80% pipeline Q1 → present
Demand

Rebuilt digital demand from the ground up.

Best H1 in company history for pipeline gen. New HubSpot stack, new ABM motion, new content engine, new paid mix.

Vertical SeriesAI-Ready Playbook
State of MarketIndustry Report 2026
Generational ResearchGen Z Study 2026
Content

Shipped gated thought-leadership reports in days.

Industry state-of-market reports, vertical AI-readiness playbooks, generational research studies. Each one a 24-page editorial PDF with a custom landing page and a 20+ creative ad set.

ABM

Built ABM landing pages in hours, not weeks.

Deal-room ABM pages, ROI calculators, dozens of one-to-one prospect pages.

Career

15 years across scale-ups, public software, and PE-backed groups.

Operator roles. Demand, brand, and growth functions, end to end.

Mar 2025 — Present London / Klipboard PE-backed ERP group

Klipboard

VP of Global Marketing

PE-backed ERP and business software group. 54,000+ customers, 250,000+ daily users, 7 regions.

  • +80% pipeline growth
  • 1st AI product line shipped, 4 verticals
  • 9 → 1 brands consolidated
  • Full demand engine rebuilt with AI-native tooling
May 2023 — Feb 2025 London / ComplyAdvantage Series C–D scale-up

ComplyAdvantage

Global Director, Demand Generation

Sanctions screening and AML platform.

  • Global demand strategy across SEM, social, events, content
  • Lead scoring and account scoring rebuilt
  • MarTech consolidation
  • Sales-marketing alignment overhaul
Jun 2021 — Apr 2023 London / Tractable AI Pre-Series D AI scale-up

Tractable AI

Global Director, Demand Generation & Growth

AI for accident and disaster recovery.

  • $45M pipeline in 6 months (2021)
  • $110M pipeline in 2022 (as of 30 Nov)
  • 4x SQLs in 2022
  • Stack: Dreamdata, Showpad, Influ2, G2, Clearbit, Chilipiper, N.Rich
Jul 2019 — Jun 2021 London / Infor Largest privately held software startup

Infor

Global Director, Demand Generation

At the time, the largest privately held software startup in the world.

  • $200M+ pipeline created
  • ABM, owned and 3rd party events, webinars
  • Performance marketing across paid mix
  • Worked across Creative, MarOps, Content, PR
Jun 2014 — Jun 2019 London / Cornerstone OnDemand NASDAQ listed talent platform

Cornerstone OnDemand

Head of Digital Strategy, EMEA

Talent management and learning platform.

  • Built EMEA Digital Operations team from scratch
  • Fully integrated paid, earned, and owned media engine
  • Marketo nurture infrastructure
  • Helped take ARR from $250M to $560M
Nov 2011 — Jun 2014 London / Redactive Media Group B2B publishing

Redactive Media Group

Manager, Digital Marketing & Web Development

Web and digital for membership bodies and B2B publishers.

  • Heathrow Airport, IATA, RTPI, CIPFA
  • RCM, CIPS, CIM, CIPD
  • NICEIC, BIFM
  • Private Eye, The Tablet
Advisory

Companies I advise.

Hands-on marketing and growth advisor to AI-native founders.

YouSquared.ai

yousquared.ai · Brooklyn, NY

Voice AI SaaS. Self-serve B2C + B2C2B motion, product-led growth, iOS and web.

GCPVercelOneSignalMixpanelRevenueCat

Penfold

getpenfold.com · London, UK

UK pension platform. Workplace auto-enrolment and private pensions, mobile-first, 10,000+ businesses on the stack.

FintechPensionsB2B2C

Tidio

tidio.com

AI customer service platform. Lyro AI agent, live chat, and help desk for 300,000+ businesses, ecommerce-heavy.

AI AgentSaaSeCommerce
Stack

Tools I actually use, not tools I list on LinkedIn.

Daily drivers. Deep expertise highlighted. Everything else is in active rotation.

AI & Agents

Daily infrastructure, not experiments.

Claude Code Claude Desktop ChatGPT Cursor Gemini Nano Banana Pro

Demand & ABM

Account selection, intent, and orchestration.

Clay HubSpot Warmly ZoomInfo Demandbase 6sense Influ2 N.Rich

Paid

$100M+ deployed at 4x blended ROAS. LinkedIn deepest.

LinkedIn Ads Google Ads Meta Ads

Analytics & Attribution

B2B-grade attribution, not dashboards for the sake of it.

GA4 Dreamdata Mixpanel Looker Studio Tag Manager

Creative & Content

Production line. From brief to ad set in days.

Nano Banana Pro Figma Canva Adobe CC Webflow Framer Midjourney GPT-Image

CRM & Ops

Marketo deep. HubSpot daily.

Marketo HubSpot Salesforce Pardot Chilipiper Outreach

Engineering

Engineer by training. I ship things, not specs.

HTML / CSS / JS Python React Prompt engineering MCP servers Agent orchestration

Areas of expertise

Where I get hired in.

GTM strategy Brand & positioning Demand & ABM Product marketing Marketing operations Forecasting Team building
Education

Engineer by training.

Sept 2010 — Sept 2011 / London

Kingston University, London

M.Sc. Information Systems with Management Studies. Graduated with High Honours.

Aug 2007 — Aug 2010 / Delhi

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Bachelors in Computer Applications.