PAUL AKINOLACAREER PROFILE · COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS
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EXPERIENCE, IN CONTEXT

Build the
systems behind
the outcome.

A career spent connecting the commercial pieces, first inside a business I founded, then across growing technology companies, and now at GTM Right.

THE THROUGH-LINE

Revenue isn’t one team’s job. It’s a system of customer understanding, decisions, and work that has to hold together.

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01 · EXPERIENCETHE OPERATING CONTEXTS
JAN 2026 – NOW01
FULL-TIME FOUNDER & CEO · COMMERCIAL VALIDATION

GTM Right

My current company: building a commercial validation platform to help founders test the reason to build before committing to the build itself.

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2020 – 202502
COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS · TECHNOLOGY

Connecting the moving parts.

Worked across technology, fintech, and healthtech companies, with a focus on the systems linking product, marketing, sales, and revenue.

VEFUNNELSOZÉRELIANCE HEALTHONHANDKX
2010 – 202003
FOUNDER · RETAIL · OPERATING

Possible and Affordable Furnishing Solutions

Founded and operated a furniture retail and manufacturing business in Nigeria, building from one store to five.

SELECTED SYSTEM STORIESCONTEXT · CONTRIBUTION · PURPOSE

The work, in
its setting.

Selected examples from my experience profile. Each begins with a specific operating question, not a headline metric or claim of quantified impact.

NOV 2024 – NOV 2025KX · ANALYTICS & TECHNOLOGY

Reconnect product activity with the commercial picture.

Situation Signals across product, web, documentation, community, and CRM did not always tell a coherent story about pipeline.

Contribution Worked across lifecycle stages, detected pipeline leakage, and reconciled signals through Segment and BigQuery. Built MarVis, an internal RevOps GPT combining CRM, pipeline, intent, telemetry, and marketing signals into context for SDR recommendations.

Purpose Help teams see meaningful activity and make better-informed decisions about where to focus.

NOV 2023 – JUN 2024ONHAND · TECHNOLOGY

Make the path from lifecycle signal to follow-up clearer.

Situation Lifecycle stages, scoring, segmentation, and handoffs needed a more consistent operating model.

Contribution Rebuilt HubSpot lifecycle stages, scoring, segmentation, and routing; improved HubSpot–Salesforce handoffs and follow-up workflows.

Purpose Give marketing and sales a clearer shared process for moving relevant leads forward.

MAR 2022 – APR 2023RELIANCE HEALTH · HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

Build the marketing function around the commercial work.

Situation A growing health business needed a marketing function with clearer structure and connection to commercial priorities.

Contribution Built the function, shaped its team structure and specialist hiring, established analytics and reporting, and strengthened marketing–commercial alignment.

Purpose Create the people, visibility, and working relationships the function needed to support the business.

APR 2021 – MAR 2022OZÉ · FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY

Put the foundations of a marketing team in place.

Situation The business needed a more deliberate marketing capability and a plan for developing it.

Contribution Built the marketing function and its recruitment plans.

Purpose Establish a foundation for the work and specialist capacity ahead.

JUL 2010 – MAR 2020POSSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE FURNISHING SOLUTIONS · RETAIL

Learn to build by running a business.

Situation A furniture retail and manufacturing business began with one store in Nigeria.

Contribution Founded and operated the business as it expanded to five stores.

Purpose This was the first long chapter in understanding how an offer, customers, operations, and decisions have to work together.

02 · HOW I WORKA SYSTEMS VIEW OF COMMERCIAL WORK
01

See the whole motion.

Connect customer, offer, channels, and execution instead of treating each as an island.

02

Find the decision underneath.

Understand what needs to be known before more activity makes sense.

03

Make the next step clearer.

Turn an open question into focused, observable work.

NOW

The founder’s view.

At GTM Right, I’m building around a question I’ve carried through my career: what would make a market say yes?

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