Alan Gleeson

Alan Gleeson is a B2B SaaS marketing consultant / fractional CMO supporting tech startups to grow and scale their businesses.

Alan started his career in financial services, joining Barclays on their graduate programme. He subsequently worked at Freeserve, then one of the poster boys for the ‘dot com’ boom.

He joined Palo Alto Software, a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) company in 2004 where he acted as the Managing Director for the European subsidiary for a number of years.

More recently Alan has worked for a number of leading SaaS startups, in a mix of full time and consultancy engagements.

In 2022, he co-founded Contento, a content management system (and yes a SaaS application), which he leads as the CEO.

Alan is based in London, and coaches at Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club in his spare time.

He has an MBA from University of Oxford, and an MSc from University College Cork, Ireland.

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Testimonials

“Alan’s experience and industry knowledge allowed us to completely transform the public face of the company, and he has driven continuous improvements since.” 
— Eoin

“He’s a talented guy who had excellent insights into how to market our products better. Some fantastic stuff came out of it. He also has an unbelievable work rate. I don’t know how he fits it all in. Best of all, he is exceptionally easy to work with and has an excellent sense of humour !”
— Dave

“Alan is a consummate professional with a keen intellect and a deep understanding of best practice techniques in Digital Marketing for software businesses. As an expert in marketing and SaaS he has a strong appreciation of the nuances and challenges in successful branding, social media, sponsored search. He is particularly adept at choosing the most appropriate strategy for the particular application.”
— Alan (Another one)

“Alan is a people person and great communicator inside and outside an organisation. He thinks strategically and decisions are based on solid research and analytical understanding of the issue at hand. He applies high quality standards to all the work he is involved in – this especially shines through in his strong client and user focus. Alan is great to collaborate with as he has a committed, focused and pragmatic approach to delivering successful results.”
— John-Paul

“Alan’s strategic understanding of entrepreneurship, the startup environment, and best practices for growing, established companies is top notch. In our collaboration, I have found him to be consistently incisive, clever, and fair minded.”
— Josh

“Alan is a fantastic team player, always with a positive mindset which rubs off on those around him. He is an incredible ‘doer’ – usually the job is done before the rest of us can even get our heads around it! He always approaches any issue with a ‘how can we resolve this’ as opposed to focusing on the issue itself.”
— Sinead

Alan is an incredibly inspiring and data-driven CMO, whom I had the pleasure of working with for nearly 2 years at NorthRow. Within that time Alan was able to transform NorthRow’s digital marketing capabilities, whilst launching a new website and rebrand. Alan laid down the foundation essential for NorthRow’s growth and more importantly was a fantastic mentor who helped me advance as a marketer and improve professionally. I am so grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside Alan, as I feel better positioned in my career.

- Rebecca

Alan is an accomplished marketing leader with a huge wealth of knowledge and experience to develop the right strategy for success. Alan has a very strong work ethic, is incredibly focused highly strategic, consistently measures KPI’s and goes the extra mile. He has a strong client focus, is a very good listener to his clients, excellent and reliable communicator, highly organised and has a very practical approach to delivering results in a short space of time. Alan also has an incredibly smart work ethic. He gets things done at high speed with such focus I literally have no idea how he works that quickly and thoroughly to such an impeccably high standard. On a personal level Alan is also a great mentor, always gives you time support and encouragement, delivers on actions and is brilliant at giving you a thorough plan of action with clear guidance. He wants you to succeed and continuously supports digital marketing learning and development. It's been hugely valuable working with Alan and have learnt so much very quickly.

-Summeera

Alan is a very skilled Marketer, and a great, positive person to work with. Alan's strategic expertise was highly valuable to shaping the company's Marketing activities, as well as contribute towards the re-branding exercise the company went through. I also feel his experience working on multiple start-up projects was very useful for helping us choose the right digital solutions and benchmark against our industry. On a personal level, Alan is a very grounded, pragmatic and results-driven person while always keeping a positive attitude and ensuring all deadlines are being met. It's been a big pleasure working together, and I look forward to collaborating again going forward - would definitely recommend Alan to the companies looking to build a strong marketing strategy & team, as well as amplify their growth!

- Andrei