Tarah Neujahr Bryan
Salt Lake City, Utah
Overview
I've spent my career scaling marketing through IPOs, hypergrowth, and market downturns. Built pipelines from scratch. Turned marketing teams from cost centers into growth engines. Won a few awards along the way. I loved being an in-house CMO. Deeply. But a pattern kept emerging: growth-stage organizations hit the same inflection point. They've outgrown scrappy marketing but aren't ready for a $400K executive bet. They need someone who's been through it; not someone who's going to learn on their dime. I'll be honest: I used to be skeptical of anyone calling themselves fractional. Now it just
About
I've spent my career scaling marketing through IPOs, hypergrowth, and market downturns. Built pipelines from scratch. Turned marketing teams from cost centers into growth engines. Won a few awards along the way. I loved being an in-house CMO. Deeply. But a pattern kept emerging: growth-stage organizations hit the same inflection point. They've outgrown scrappy marketing but aren't ready for a $400K executive bet. They need someone who's been through it; not someone who's going to learn on their dime. I'll be honest: I used to be skeptical of anyone calling themselves fractional. Now it just makes sense. Different companies, different leaders, different complex problems to untangle; it turns out that's where I thrive. Every engagement sharpens the playbook. Every leadership team teaches me something new. The variety isn't a tradeoff; it's the whole point. So I founded Alpenglow Summit to create fractional CMO leadership that builds capability, not dependency. I come in, build the strategy and infrastructure and elevate the team.