Dan Slagen

About

Selected by Forbes as a Top 50 Entrepreneurial CMO and TIME's 100 most influential companies, Dan Slagen is currently SVP at Zapier where he leads marketing for the world's most connected AI Orchestration Platform. Dan has experience scaling disruptive marketing functions and has been featured in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CNBC, BBC, WSJ, Bloomberg, TEDx, and more. Dan is a frequent speaker, advisor, author of the "best selling" book Understanding Start-Up CEOs, and an instructor on AI transformation at Scott Galloway's Section School. Dan’s passion comes from leading with creativity, drive, and innovation.

Experience

• SVP, Marketing at Zapier
  Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

• Instructor | Advisor | Author at Self
  Jan 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

  - Instructor on AI transformation and go-to-market at Scott Galloway's Section School - Have advised: DoorDash, Gannett, Gtkraken, HP, MIT, Nike, UPENN, VentureBeat, Wistia - Author of Understanding Start-Up CEOs (rated top 25 CEO book by Book Authority) More at danslagen.com

• CMO at Tomorrow.io
  Jan 2020 - Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  Helped grow from $2M in ARR to $1B+ valuation. Forbes Top 50 CMO, TIME 100 Most Influential, Fast Company Most Innovative.

• CMO & Chief Culture Officer at ThriveHive
  Oct 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  NYSE: GCI - Rebuilt, grew, and led team through $1.3B acquisition of Gannett | USA TODAY

• CMO at Alignable
  Nov 2015 - Oct 2018 · 3 yrs

  Built marketing, sales, and CS teams to help grow the network for more than 9 million business owners.