Inside November’s Mentor Connect: Growth, Positioning & GTM Clarity with Mike Wood
On November 14, TiE Silicon Valley hosted another high-impact Mentor Connect session—this time featuring Mike Wood, Chief Marketing Officer & Critical Named Account Sales at Aliro, and one of the most versatile product and go-to-market leaders in the Valley.
With 25+ years of building and scaling technology businesses (including an IPO and two major acquisitions), Mike brought a rare blend of technical depth, market intuition, and GTM precision to the founders participating this month. His background includes leadership roles at Cisco, VMware/VeloCloud, Akamai, Juniper (via Apstra), and Versa, where he helped teams validate new markets, launch category-defining products, and scale revenue into the hundreds of millions.
During the session, founders received direct, actionable guidance on sharpening their market focus, tightening their positioning, accelerating product adoption, and building the kind of teams that can execute in fast-moving competitive environments. Mike’s ability to break down complex go-to-market challenges into clear, practical steps made the conversations especially impactful.
Whether founders were exploring new categories, refining PLG strategy, or preparing for aggressive growth, the insights shared from Mike’s decades of hands-on operating experience gave them a roadmap worth its weight in gold.
Mentor Connect continues to be a place where founders get real guidance from operators who’ve actually built, scaled, and led — and this month delivered exactly that.
If you’d like to be considered for an upcoming session, stay tuned for next month’s announcement.
🎥 Founder Spotlight: Rajesh Unankat of SurveyVista at TiE Silicon Valley Mentor Connect