The Essence of Placid Ventures
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.“
George Bernard Shaw
About Placid Ventures
We are a strategic advisory firm helping companies go to market and scale. Our expertise includes accelerating new business growth, improving sales performance, and increasing market share. Our team possesses a wealth of experience in the areas of SAAS start-ups, mid-market enterprise sales and marketing, customer success, customer insights, product-led growth, and partner management and alliances.
Meet Todd Grossman
FOUNDER & CEO
Todd Grossman is a highly accomplished media and technology industry leader with over 20 years of experience in building companies. He is widely recognized as a trusted advisor and connector in the industry, and is known for his expertise in sales, marketing, communications, change management, and consumer intelligence data analytics.
As the former CEO of Americas at Talkwalker, a leading consumer intelligence company, Todd played a key role in the company’s successful sale to Marlin Equity Partners. He also served as Managing Director for Precise Media, a Phoenix Equity Partners company, which was acquired by WPP. Todd has held senior executive roles at PR Newswire (now Cision) and its broadcast and multimedia division, Multivu.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Todd is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut Digital Media and Design Department, where he teaches creative leadership courses. He has also completed executive education programs at Cranfield University’s School of Management in the United Kingdom and holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.
Todd is also a dedicated philanthropist and community leader. He is the founder of the Kilimanjaro Education Foundation, on which he sits on the board, and serves on the audit committee for Dancing Classrooms. He currently resides in New York City with his wife and three children.
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