Nick Bhavsar — Top of the Funnel
Meet Nick Bhavsar, the dynamic co-host of AI Marketing Makeover and Top of The Funnel Expert.
Nick is passionate about helping marketers flourish by applying tried-and-true strategies across a range of marketing disciplines, including product marketing, demand generation, marketing operations, and brand development.
Nick’s professional journey is marked by significant milestones, including his tenure as VP of Marketing at Levelset, a company that was successfully acquired by Procore for $500 million.
At Spiceworks, Nick was affectionately known as the resident ‘funnel fanatic’. He led dedicated teams in demand generation, sales enablement, and marketing operations, adding a little spice to tech marketing.
His expertise also extends to product marketing, a skill he honed at SolarWinds. There, he played a pivotal role in steering the team through multiple product launches and a successful IPO. Before SolarWinds, Nick showcased his technical acumen at Intel, where he designed enterprise data center servers.
Nick lives in Austin, Texas along with his wife, son, and pup Daisy and he never passes up a chocolate chip cookie! Nick can be reached at nickbhavsar@aimarketingmakeover.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbhavsar/
Rusty Bishop, Ph.D. — Bottom of the Funnel
Meet Rusty Bishop, co-host of AI Marketing Makeover and Bottom of the Funnel Expert.
Rusty has been a CMO of a public SaaS company (Bigtincan), co-founder and CEO with a successful exit (FatStax), co-owner of an SEO and content creation firm (Red Funnel), and Ph.D. Biochemist and biomedical researcher.
Rusty has spent the last 12 years in the Sales Enablement software vertical with deep experience in sales content including blogs, sales decks, competitive analysis, and positioning for sales.
During his 4 year tenure at Bigtincan , his team grew revenue by 52%, 53%, 48%, and 126% respectively with a mixture of organic and M&A-led growth.
Further, Rusty has been invited to train 10,000s of salespeople across the world in the use of sales enablement tools as well as working directly with 1000s of Sales Enablement professionals
Rusty is a Mississippi native and now lives in San Diego with my wife (Alli) and cat (Tela).
You can contact him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rustybishop/
