Ex Amazon | AI, GTM, Marketplaces & New Ventures | Author
Build, Launch
and Scale.
Go-to-Market
Strategy and
Marketplaces.
Technology &
New Ventures.
ABOUT
I build, launch and grow businesses. My experience spans Amazon, technology and entertainment. Today, I lead Blue Bear Head, helping teams bring new ideas to market, grow through marketplaces and use AI to improve how they work.
I’m also the author of It’s All Trash ’Til It’s Cash, sharing lessons from my time at Amazon on building businesses and leading teams.
I'm the operator you call when there's no room for error and the whole thing is on the line. When it actually matters.
I build businesses by starting with the customer, choosing clear priorities and bringing teams together to deliver.
Across 12+ years at Amazon, I worked on Sponsored Products, Launchpad Innovation Grants and private label, helping launch and grow businesses across international markets. My experience covers go-to-market strategy, partnerships, sales and the day-to-day work of turning a plan into results.
As an Amazon Bar Raiser, I conducted more than 1,000 interviews. I used Working Backwards to help teams define customer problems, test assumptions and decide what to build. Those experiences still shape how I hire, lead and make decisions.
My career also includes early growth at Zillow and streaming innovation at Sumerian Records. Working across technology and entertainment taught me how products, content and partnerships influence customer behaviour—and how to turn that understanding into commercial growth.
Today, I lead Blue Bear Head, helping businesses:
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Launch new ventures with a clear customer, offer and market-entry plan.
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Improve go-to-market execution across sales, marketing and partnerships.
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Grow through marketplaces and expand into new markets.
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Apply AI to repetitive workflows, with human oversight and measurable results.
I’m also the author of It’s All Trash ’Til It’s Cash: Applying Amazon’s Blueprint for Builders, sharing practical lessons on building businesses and leading teams.
If you’re looking for an executive to lead your next stage of growth, or support with a specific business challenge, let’s talk.
PUBLICATIONS
Helping founders and creative teams turn raw ideas into ventures that scale and actually make money.
Former Amazon executive. Twelve plus years leading global sales, launching Prime Day and Launchpad, scaling business units into hundreds of millions.
Before that, early sales at Zillow and SVP at Sumerian Records, where I built streaming platforms and rethought what digital growth even looked like.
INTERVIEWS
Chadd has been interviewed on innovation, sales, and what it actually takes to turn bold ideas into ventures that scale, drawing on his years at Amazon, Zillow, and Sumerian.
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