20+
Years in retail automotive.
From frontline sales to multi-rooftop leadership.
Experience with the real decisions behind the results.
Fractional CMO & Revenue Executive
Real-world experience.
Extraordinary perspective.

The floor. The strategy.
The bigger picture.
Daniel’s perspective wasn’t built in a boardroom.
It started on a showroom floor.
From a Chrysler Jeep dealership in Lexington, South Carolina, to selling vehicles around the world through eBay, Daniel learned that digital trust has to be earned.
At Stokes Automotive Group, he progressed from Internet Director to Variable Operations Platform Director, helping lead facility expansions, new rooftops, and the teams behind them.
20+
From frontline sales to multi-rooftop leadership.
Experience with the real decisions behind the results.
$2.5M+
Driving direct traffic. Holding vendors accountable.
Putting every marketing dollar to work.
$10M+
As National Sales Manager at CarCutter, Daniel spearheaded
zero-to-$10M+ ARR growth and its US market expansion.
At Stokes, Daniel built a centralized business development center around consistent training, clear expectations, and genuine investment in his team.
The leadership approach ↗Centralized BDC payroll oversight
Experience across Stokes Automotive · CarCutter · Affinitiv · UpdatePromise
Too many vendors. Overlapping tools. Disconnected data. Daniel audits the whole picture and brings it into focus.
His approach: audit what’s there.
Eliminate overlap. Connect what matters.
Someone who’s been
in your seat.
Marketing spend without clear returns. A disconnected tech stack. Teams stretched across rooftops. Daniel brings firsthand operating experience to diagnose the friction and build a practical path forward.
Explore the expertise
Local SEO, paid search, answer engine optimization, and clear attribution. Daniel connects acquisition strategy with the systems and vendors responsible for delivering it.
Digital marketing experience ↗Vendor management experience ↗Translate retail reality into product decisions. Build market-entry strategies, navigate enterprise and OEM relationships, and design adoption around the way dealerships actually work.
SaaS experience ↗From inventory and lead management to facility launches and centralized business development. Daniel leads with consistent training, clear expectations, and investment in people.
Dealership experience ↗Leadership experience ↗Google AI Professional, Digital Marketing & E-Commerce, Workspace Administrator, and People Management Essentials. HubSpot certifications span marketing, sales enablement, inbound, and sales management.
Certifications and training ↗Audit the operations, spend, technology, and revenue drivers.
Set the strategy, priorities, and practical operational fixes.
Work alongside the team. Track outcomes. Hold the work accountable.
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
A conversation about where you are,
what’s getting in the way, and what comes next.