Our Team

Gayle Meyers is an entrepreneur, venture partner, investor, board member, advisor, and operating resource in digital media and marketing with over two decades of executive leadership experience. She is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences for companies such as Google, Verizon, Omnicom, LiveRamp, Linkedin, Twitter, and Oracle, among others. 

Gayle launched Growthing. co, a management consulting firm focused on optimizing growth strategies for organizations, executive leaders, and investors. Gayle is frequently tapped for high- profile management consulting, board of directors, and advisory positions to guide marketing technology, commerce, data, and service companies on ways to enhance their in-market presence. A list of notable past clients includes Tinuiti (acquired by New Mountain Capital), Integral Ad Science and TripleLift (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), Adometry (acquired by Google), MediaForge (acquired by Rakuten), ThinkNear (acquired by Telenav), and TapAd (acquired by Telenor), among others who have benefitted from her unique insights to increase shareholder value. Gayle has extended her services in partnership with the Winterberry Group, a specialized management consultancy with deep experience in advertising, marketing, data, technology and commerce. 

Gayle currently sits on the Board of Directors of two Mountaingate Capital portfolio companies. The first is Acceleration Partners, an award-winning partner marketing agency specialized in commerce; the other is Anteriad, a leading global provider of B2B database products for performance-driven demand generation, data optimization, and customer acquisition. Gayle recently joined the Board of Directors for Digital Remedy, a Media Execution Platform that serves the leading agencies and brands. 

Gayle was the Chief Growth Officer at LUMA Partners, where she led overall revenue development, marketing, branding, communications, and partnership strategy. LUMA is the leading investment bank focused on digital media and marketing technologies, providing strategic advice, proven M&A expertise, and extensive industry knowledge to optimize more than $11 billion in cumulative transactions, IPO’s and other outcomes for their clients. 

Gayle was the Founder and CEO of Digital Media Review (DMR) and Industry Index (acquired by Shouldertap Investments), the first company to provide research-based and verified ratings, review, and management consulting services across the marketing technology landscape for CMO's. Her longtime career of discovering and integrating game-changing technologies that solve real pain points in the marketing the industry was the inspiration for DMR’s mission to help marketers find innovation. 

Gayle's expertise spans multiple disciplines, transforming marketing and product roadmaps, messaging, revenue acceleration, and partnership development, clarifying corporate vision, future point of view and strategic growth opportunities in technology-enabled data-driven platforms and services. She realized her business success could be converted to supporting the executive leaders as they adapt to change, provide insight and best practices within their centers of excellence. 

Originally trained as an executive chef to support her family company, High Flying Foods, the leading independent concession group in airports. Gayle lives in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, where her life now revolves around keeping her children—and their even finickier dog, cat, and horse— properly nourished. 

Emily has two decades of experience growing revenue for digital media companies. At GM Consulting Emily is focused on helping companies scale by providing strategic recommendations and sound models for expansion and monetization. Her work focuses on positioning, sales enablement, commercialization, team development, business, and sales development, packaging & productization and corporate & sales marketing.

Before joining Axios as the Senior Vice President of Branded Studios, Emily was the Senior Vice President of Content and Digital Products at iHeartMedia where she lead the charge in overhauling its content practice for over 900 websites, 4 thousand social handles (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook), and YouTube, as well as designing its digital marketing and monetization practice. She was also an integral player in leading iHeartMedia’s support team for content creation around iHeartMedia events across the country throughout the year.

Prior to iHeartMedia, Emily was the Senior Vice President of Ad Strategy at Business Insider (now Insider Inc.) where she was one of the first people hired to build its advertising revenue business. Under her seven-year tenure, she launched five departments, including the branded content practice - Insider Studios - which supported the revenue goals, as the website grew from 3 million unique views to 100+ million.

 
Emily has also held top management roles at Smithsonian Business Ventures where she revamped two magazine websites and launched a travel site for the Smithsonian Institution. During one of her biggest projects, each of the 19 museums handed over CAD drawings of their floor plans which her team meticulously turned into interactive maps.

 
She originally began her career at Real Media Inc. in San Francisco before moving to Time Inc. - more specifically Golf.com - where she saw Tiger Woods win 8 out of his 15 career majors. When she’s not in New York, Emily and her two kids enjoy time in the Sierras skiing or at Lake Tahoe.