Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Applied AI

Joshua Cook

AI-Native Marketing & Revenue Operations Leader

I build the systems that make operations and revenue repeatable, then I make them smarter. Currently exploring Director and VP roles in AI, marketing, and revenue operations.

About Me

I’m a revenue and operations leader for the AI era: twenty years across marketing, revenue operations, and applied AI, spent turning fragmented teams and processes into predictable growth engines.

The thread through my career is simple. I build the systems that make operations and revenue repeatable, then I make them smarter. That started with marketing automation and attribution long before it was fashionable, matured into Revenue Operations ownership and efficiency gains across the full customer lifecycle, and now sits squarely in AI transformation.

Adoption is the part most AI programs underestimate. A tool nobody uses returns nothing, so I build for the people who have to live with the result, and I measure what actually changed.

I’m currently exploring Director and VP roles in AI, marketing, and revenue operations. I also take on selective advisory and consulting work.

Joshua Cook

AI-Native Marketing & Revenue Operations Leader

Phone:   (705) 321-7944
Email:   [email protected]
Location:   Ontario, Canada

Experience

RDEL Group

2025 – Present

Director, Artificial Intelligence

I own AI strategy, adoption, and new-product development across the organization. The most consequential thing I’ve built there had nothing to do with chatbots: a client’s monthly reporting cycle took anywhere from fourteen to thirty days of manual work, which meant invoices went out late and cash sat uncollected. I rebuilt it as an automated pipeline running frontier models against BigQuery.

Reporting now takes one to three days. Manual effort dropped roughly 90%. Accelerating receivables freed an estimated $960K in annual cashflow.

That’s the pattern I care about. Not AI as a feature, but AI applied where the business actually bleeds time and money, then measured honestly afterward. I’ve since audited a business unit for operational drag, built the learning program that gets teams using this stuff, and designed a modular content platform that spins up client-specific agent teams.

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  • Architected and delivered an AI-powered reporting automation that compressed a client’s monthly reporting cycle from 14–30 days to 1–3 and cut manual effort ~90%, accelerating accounts receivable to free an estimated $960K in annual cashflow; built hands-on, integrating frontier LLMs with Google BigQuery, Relay.app, and Apps Script.
  • Built the organization’s AI adoption and impact framework through an operational-efficiency audit of a business unit, surfacing ~$300K and 500+ hours in annual savings across 50 initiatives, each scoped, sequenced, and now moving into implementation.
  • Developed the AI learning program, designing curricula for multiple courses delivered to internal teams and sold as a commercial offering to external corporate clients.
  • Designed a modular AI content platform that spins up client-specific AI-agent teams across specialized copywriting disciplines, each compounding in quality with use, expanding content capacity without increasing headcount.
  • Owned product and go-to-market strategy for all AI service lines, leading market and competitor research, ICP definition, pricing and revenue modeling, and launch planning.
  • Advise teams across the organization on where AI genuinely helps and where it doesn’t, tracking the tooling landscape and translating it into practical recommendations.

Apertera
(formerly Alexa Translations)

2022 – 2025

Director, Revenue Operations

When I stepped into RevOps at Alexa Translations, the data was a mess, the systems didn’t talk, and sales teams were flying blind. I built the foundation that changed that: clean KPIs, a forecasting methodology the business could trust, customer health scoring, and AI-powered “digital twins” that let us simulate buyer behavior and coach teams in real time.

Forecasts got sharper. The pipeline got healthier. Decisions finally had context.

Before that, as Senior Marketing Manager, I rebuilt the marketing engine from the ground up. We more than doubled pipeline by fixing handoffs, rethinking automation, and designing campaigns that reflected what buyers actually needed. I standardized our tools, rolled out lifecycle programs, and brought operations up to a level where strategy could finally scale.

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Director, Revenue Operations

  • Launched and led the applied-AI program inside RevOps: AI-augmented content workflows (custom GPTs trained on brand and industry expertise) whose first two posts each outperformed the prior six months combined, extended into “digital twin” SME copilots for sales onboarding, role-play, and GTM strategy review.
  • Defined and owned the RevOps operating model, re-architecting HubSpot CRM and marketing automation into one operating view of usage, revenue, and renewals, integrated with finance systems, the company’s proprietary AI usage platform, and intent sources (Apollo, Clearbit, G2), backed by KPI frameworks and executive dashboards (Zoho BI, ClickUp).
  • Established the forecasting methodology and pipeline standards for the business, clearing $4M in dead pipeline and aligning Sales and Finance on board-level revenue reporting.
  • Set the qualification and Sales SLA standards that cut speed-to-lead ~90%, from 2+ days to under 2 hours, protecting conversion quality as volume scaled.
  • Directed a retention and expansion overhaul that lifted QBR completion from under 50% to 70% in the first month, introducing health scoring to surface churn risk and expansion signals.

Senior Manager, Marketing

  • Repositioned marketing as a predictable revenue engine, driving a 125% increase in marketing-sourced pipeline and ~4x MQL growth through multi-channel strategy and HubSpot automation.
  • Orchestrated cross-functional GTM planning with Sales, Product, and executive leadership, aligning campaigns to revenue targets to produce repeatable pipeline.
  • Institutionalized lifecycle and retention programs, including automated upsell and re-engagement, that strengthened recurring revenue across global SaaS and professional-services accounts.
  • Built executive attribution and ROI models and embedded real-time dashboards (Zoho BI) into leadership reporting, reallocating spend toward high-growth channels.
  • Expanded into the U.S. and Mexico with localized campaigns, proving scalable pipeline impact in new markets.
  • Grew and mentored the marketing team across automation, content, and analytics, sustaining performance and stability through leadership transitions.

“He was always able to focus on outcomes over outputs, prioritizing what matters.”

Miki Velemirovich
Head of Product

Norwood Sawmills

2019 – 2021

Digital Marketing Manager

At Norwood Sawmills, I took a legacy e-commerce operation and turned it into a high-growth engine, driving a 548% revenue increase and more than doubling transactions. We redesigned the website, including every aspect of the user experience and checkout flows, and scaled paid acquisition in ways that made every dollar work harder.

When the pandemic hit and supply chains buckled, I rebuilt lead gen to sync with inventory realities—keeping sales flowing without overpromising. I launched targeted campaigns across international markets, backed by CRM segmentation, automation, and dashboards that gave execs real-time visibility. The result was a modern marketing system built for resilience and scale.

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  • Transformed e-commerce into a scalable growth engine, delivering +548% revenue and +282% transactions by redesigning marketing strategy, customer experience and performance governance.
  • Directed a $1.5M annual budget, reallocating spend across paid acquisition, agency partnerships and strategic initiatives to maximise ROI and control CAC during rapid expansion.
  • Safeguarded revenue continuity through pandemic disruptions by aligning demand generation with inventory and supply capacity.
  • Cut CPL 72% and increased lead volume 489% by aligning Google Ads and Meta Ads to buyer-journey stages and rebuilding landing pages, lifting conversion +39%.
  • Implemented marketing automation, lead scoring and segmentation in Zoho CRM and Zoho One to raise lead quality, prioritise sales focus and scale lifecycle engagement.
  • Directed campaign expansion and optimisation across North America and Europe, harmonising offers, creative and product positioning for market entry and brand consistency.
  • Established executive reporting and governance through integrated analytics and multi-touch attribution, providing leadership with a trusted view of channel ROI, demand velocity and forecasting inputs.

“Josh has an incredible way of thinking outside the box and designing digital marketing strategies that are measurable, and that work.”

Daniel Mager
Digital Marketing Specialist

Xplore
(previously Xplornet Communications)

2017 – 2019

Digital Marketing Manager

When I joined Xplornet (now Xplore), most digital leads came from branded keywords—burning budget on people already looking for us. I overhauled our campaigns, striking a smarter balance between SEO and paid media to maximize reach and relevance.

The result: a 1,300%+ increase in digital lead volume. What was once an afterthought became the company’s top acquisition channel.

Behind the scenes, I rebuilt Salesforce Marketing Cloud to support automation and sharper orchestration. Campaigns became smarter, conversions climbed, and cost-per-lead dropped.

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He has the rare ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, articulate a clear vision, and execute with precision.”

Angie Kam
Marketing Manager

Additional Roles (Summarized)

2006 – 2017

Before I led RevOps transformations or scaled pipelines at the national level, I was cutting my teeth where the seams between brand, systems, and scale were still being stitched together.

I helped reposition a global outsourcing firm for international markets with a full rebrand, while overhauling the tech stack underneath it to support real sales performance.

I worked on campaigns for some of the world’s most recognizable brands—Toyota, Samsung, The Macallan, EA Sports—learning what it takes to build messages that resonate and systems that deliver.

And I got my start in B2B technology marketing, launching platforms in industries where the value wasn’t always obvious and the sales cycles weren’t forgiving.

That stretch taught me how to lead through ambiguity, translate creative into commercial outcomes, and build engines that don’t fall apart at speed

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Bill Gosling Outsourcing

  • Led a global enterprise rebrand, repositioning the firm in international markets and aligning sales, marketing, and ops under a unified message.
  • Increased website traffic by 400% through a complete redesign and content overhaul aligned to buyer stages.
  • Delivered email campaigns with a 35.5% open rate—nearly double the industry benchmark—by combining strategic segmentation with responsive HTML builds.

Envisage Engagement Marketing

  • Delivered omnichannel campaigns for Toyota, Samsung and The Macallan, unifying digital and event experiences to extend reach and engagement.

  • Consistently beat industry email benchmarks with 50%+ opens and 30%+ CTR through testing, segmentation and automation.

  • Owned QA and onsite execution for live interactive experiences; frontline client liaison for marquee accounts such as University of Toronto and Responsible Gambling Council.

MDS Wireless

  • Modernized CRM and email systems to reduce lead loss and improve campaign performance tracking.
  • Built custom reporting dashboards and attribution models to drive better spend decisions.
  • Localized demand programs across multiple regions using segmentation and adaptive campaign assets.

Joshua doesn’t just execute. He questions assumptions, seeks smarter ways forward, and brings a results-oriented mindset to everything he touches.”

Joel MacCharles
Vice President of Marketing

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Core Competencies

Professional Skills

You don’t just need systems that scale, you need systems your team can trust. That means clean data, clear reporting, and a pipeline that doesn’t leave sales teams chasing ghosts. Fix the data, instrument the funnel, then compound it with automation.

I’ve run that play at four companies. Norwood: 548% e-commerce revenue growth. Xplornet: digital went from afterthought to top acquisition channel. Alexa: a RevOps foundation that finally produced accurate reporting. RDEL: an AI reporting pipeline that freed an estimated $960K in annual cashflow.

 

Leadership & Team Development

Strategic planning & execution

Team development & leadership

Change management

Mentorship & coaching

Resource & growth planning

Executive & board-level partnership

Revenue Operations & Enablement

Pipeline design & management

Forecasting methodology & governance

CRM governance & data integrity

Lead scoring, qualification & SLAs

Sales enablement

Customer health scoring & churn risk

Tech stack evaluation & administration

Budget planning & P&L oversight

Go-to-Market (GTM)

Market segmentation & positioning

Multi-channel GTM launches

Product marketing and messaging

Account-based marketing (ABM)

Pricing & revenue modeling

Cross-functional rollout

Applied AI & Automation

Applied AI strategy

Agentic workflow design

AI copilots & digital twins

LLM-powered reporting automation

Process automation & operational efficiency

AI training, enablement & adoption

Demand Generation & Growth Marketing

Campaign orchestration

CAC optimization

Growth experimentation

Marketing automation

Lifecycle & retention marketing

International market expansion

Data Analytics &
Performance Measurement

Multi-touch attribution modeling

Revenue intelligence & reporting

KPI definition & executive dashboards

Predictive analytics

ROI reporting

A/B testing

Ready for more than just leads?

Core Competencies

Technical Proficiencies

Every stack I’ve inherited has been a graveyard of half-configured platforms nobody trusts. I consolidate what’s there, integrate CRM and automation so the data actually moves, and build dashboards that drive decisions rather than just display them.

The same discipline applies to AI. I’m less interested in which model is fashionable this quarter than in what it does to a P&L, so the tools below are the ones I’ve shipped with, not the ones I’ve demoed.

CRM & Databases

Salesforce

HubSpot CRM

Zoho CRM

Google BigQuery

Apollo

Clearbit

ZoomInfo

Marketing Automation

Marketo

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Pardot

HubSpot Marketing Hub

Zoho Campaigns

ActiveCampaign

Paid Media & Advertising

Google & YouTube Ads

Microsoft Ads (Bing)

LinkedIn Ads

Facebook & Instagram Ads (Meta)

Review & Directory (G2, Capterra)

AI Development & Automation

Claude Code

n8n

Relay.app

Custom GPTs & AI agents

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Google Apps Script

Workflow orchestration & integration

AI Platforms & Assistants

Claude

ChatGPT

Gemini

NotebookLM

HubSpot Breeze

Apollo AI

Zia AI

Analytics, Dashboards & BI

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Google Analytics (GA4)

Zoho Analytics

Databox

MS Excel & Google Sheets

Clean data. Aligned systems. Better decisions.

Recommendations

“Josh was a solid strategic partner at the executive level, regularly collaborating with [the product team] and other senior leaders to ensure our GTM, product, and broader business objectives remained tightly aligned… He was always able to focus on outcomes over outputs, prioritizing what matters.”

Miki Velemirovich
Head of Product

“Joshua doesn’t just execute. He questions assumptions, seeks smarter ways forward, and brings a results-oriented mindset to everything he touches.”

Joel MacCharles
Vice President of Marketing

“He was the architect behind our digital strategy and directly drove over 80% of all inbound leads… He has the rare ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, articulate a clear vision, and execute with precision.”

Angie Kam
Marketing Manager

“He’s the kind of leader who doesn’t just drive results, but inspires people to do their best work.”

Sindiola Koka
Sales Operations Manager

“Josh led our RevOps function at Alexa Translations and brought a solid mix of technical expertise, analytical thinking, and a clear, structured approach to solving problems. He didn’t wait to be asked, he just rolled up his sleeves and got to work.”

Mark Vecchiarelli
Vice President of Marketing

“Josh has an incredible way of thinking outside the box and designing digital marketing strategies that are measurable, and that work.”

Daniel Mager
Digital Marketing Specialist

Let's Collaborate for Success

I’m currently exploring Director and VP roles in marketing, revenue operations, and AI, and I take on selective advisory work alongside that

If you’re building a revenue engine that needs better systems, cleaner data, or a serious answer to what AI actually does for your funnel, I’d like to hear about it.