Bhanu Chawla CMO at Frame London 2026

I build AI-native marketing engines that ship pipeline that closes.

Chief Marketing Officer at Frame, the settlement layer for global finance. 15 years, four scale-ups, one PE-backed group, every funnel stage. Engineer by training, marketer by trade.

Bhanu Chawla delivering a keynote on stage
On stageKeynote, 2026
$1B+ Lifetime pipeline
$100M+ Paid media deployed
4x Blended ROAS
15yrs In B2B software
01Now

CMO at Frame.

Frame is the settlement layer for global finance: one integration that orchestrates payments across fiat rails, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits, with compliance enforced on every transaction and settlement in minutes. I own marketing end to end: brand, demand, ABM, content, events, and the AI-native operating model underneath it all.

02Operating model

A marketing function, run like product engineering.

Four defaults that shape how my teams work, every day.

$claude#brand-corpus
indexed 1,847 assets
draft ABM page · tier-1 account
page live · same day
fact-check report · 278 claims
spin 100-ad creative set
2.1 / AI-native

Build AI-native marketing functions.

Claude Code, Clay, HubSpot AI, and modern image models run as core daily infrastructure. Reports, ABM pages, and full creative sets ship in days.

Visitors
100%
Identified
78%
MQL
52%
SQL
31%
Closed
18%
2.2 / Demand

Rebuild demand engines.

I diagnose and rebuild B2B demand engines around intent, ABM, and revenue. The number that matters is closed pipeline.

narrative
Settlement Payments Banking ERP AI Compliance
2.3 / Story

Translate complex products into clear stories.

Settlement infrastructure, multi-vertical ERP, AI claims automation, sanctions screening, talent platforms. Complex software turned into positioning, narrative, and pipeline.

MarketingABM tier-1 list, 240 accounts.
SalesConfirmed. Outreach plays loaded.
ProductDemo data ready for the top 10.
Pipeline+£3.4M booked, week one.
2.4 / Team sport

Run growth as a team sport.

Marketing wired into sales, product, and revenue. The function compounds when it moves with the rest of the business.

03Shipped / 2025–2026

What an AI-native function actually ships.

Live work from the last 18 months. The point is the operating model.

Internal tooling

A company-wide second brain, built on Claude Code.

Search, summarise, draft, and generate against the full corpus of brand, product, and customer assets. Used by marketing, sales, and product.

RAMVigoSilk MothSavantK8AutopartAutoworkOnRentKlipboard
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Brand

Nine legacy brands consolidated into one.

RAM, Vigo, Silk Moth, Savant, K8, Autopart, Autowork, OnRent, and Klipboard, unified under a single positioning, identity, and go-to-market.

Vertical 01Distribution
Vertical 02Automotive
Vertical 03Rental
Vertical 04Field Service
Product launch

A first AI product line, launched across four verticals.

Positioning, naming, launch motion, sales enablement, and demand, owned end to end.

+80% pipeline Q1 → present
Demand

Digital demand rebuilt from the ground up.

Best H1 in company history for pipeline generation. New HubSpot stack, new ABM motion, new content engine, new paid mix.

Vertical seriesAI-Ready Playbook
State of marketIndustry Report 2026
ResearchGen Z Study 2026
Content

Gated thought-leadership reports, shipped in days.

State-of-market reports, AI-readiness playbooks, generational research. Each one a 24-page editorial PDF with a custom landing page and a 20+ creative ad set.

ABM

One-to-one ABM pages, live in hours.

Deal rooms, ROI calculators, dozens of gated prospect pages. Now running weekly at Frame.

Engineer by training.
Marketer by trade.

04Career

15 years across scale-ups, public software, and PE-backed groups.

Operator roles. Demand, brand, and growth functions, end to end.

Jun 2026 – Present London Settlement infrastructure

Chief Marketing Officer

The settlement layer for global finance. Fiat rails, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits behind one integration, with compliance enforced on every transaction.

  • Marketing stood up AI-native from day one
  • New website, brand system, and brand portal live in month one
  • ABM engine running weekly against tier-1 institutions
  • Brand, demand, content, and events, owned end to end
Mar 2025 – May 2026 London PE-backed ERP group

VP of Global Marketing

PE-backed ERP and business software group. 54,000+ customers, 250,000+ daily users, 7 regions.

  • +80% pipeline growth
  • 1st AI product line shipped, 4 verticals
  • 9 → 1 brands consolidated
  • Full demand engine rebuilt with AI-native tooling
May 2023 – Feb 2025 London Series C–D scale-up

Global Director, Demand Generation

Sanctions screening and AML platform.

  • Global demand strategy across SEM, social, events, content
  • Lead scoring and account scoring rebuilt
  • MarTech consolidation
  • Sales-marketing alignment overhaul
Jun 2021 – Apr 2023 London Pre-Series D AI scale-up

Global Director, Demand Generation & Growth

AI for accident and disaster recovery.

  • $45M pipeline in 6 months (2021)
  • $110M pipeline in 2022 (as of 30 Nov)
  • 4x SQLs in 2022
  • Stack: Dreamdata, Showpad, Influ2, G2, Clearbit, Chilipiper, N.Rich
Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 London Enterprise software

Global Director, Demand Generation

At the time, the largest privately held software startup in the world.

  • $200M+ pipeline created
  • ABM, owned and third-party events, webinars
  • Performance marketing across the paid mix
  • Worked across creative, MarOps, content, PR
Jun 2014 – Jun 2019 London NASDAQ-listed talent platform

Head of Digital Strategy, EMEA

Talent management and learning platform.

  • Built the EMEA digital operations team from scratch
  • Fully integrated paid, earned, and owned media engine
  • Marketo nurture infrastructure
  • Helped take ARR from $250M to $560M
Nov 2011 – Jun 2014 London B2B publishing

Manager, Digital Marketing & Web Development

Web and digital for membership bodies and B2B publishers.

  • Heathrow Airport, IATA, RTPI, CIPFA
  • RCM, CIPS, CIM, CIPD
  • Private Eye, The Tablet
2010 – 2011 / London Kingston University, London M.Sc. Information Systems with Management Studies, High Honours
2007 – 2010 / Delhi Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Bachelor of Computer Applications
05Advisory

Companies I advise.

Hands-on marketing and growth advisor to AI-native and fintech founders.

getpenfold.com · London

Mar 2026 – Present

UK pension platform. Workplace auto-enrolment and private pensions, mobile-first, 10,000+ businesses on the stack.

FintechPensionsB2B2C

yousquared.ai · Brooklyn, NY

Nov 2024 – Present

Voice AI call handling SaaS. Self-serve B2C and B2C2B motion, product-led growth, iOS and web.

Voice AISaaSPLG

tidio.com

Dec 2024 – Feb 2025

AI customer service platform. Lyro AI agent, live chat, and help desk for 300,000+ businesses, ecommerce-heavy.

AI agentsSaaSeCommerce
06Stack

The stack I run daily.

Deep expertise highlighted. Everything else in active rotation.

AI & agents

Daily infrastructure.

Claude CodeClaude DesktopChatGPTCursorGeminiNano Banana Pro

Demand & ABM

Account selection, intent, orchestration.

ClayHubSpotWarmlyZoomInfoDemandbase6senseInflu2N.Rich

Paid

$100M+ deployed at 4x blended ROAS. LinkedIn deepest.

LinkedIn AdsGoogle AdsMeta Ads

Analytics & attribution

B2B-grade attribution.

GA4DreamdataMixpanelLooker StudioTag Manager

Creative & content

Brief to ad set in days.

Nano Banana ProFigmaCanvaAdobe CCWebflowFramerMidjourney

CRM & ops

Marketo deep. HubSpot daily.

MarketoHubSpotSalesforcePardotChilipiperOutreach

Engineering

Engineer by training. I ship working things.

HTML / CSS / JSPythonReactPrompt engineeringMCP serversAgent orchestration

Hired for

Where I get brought in.

GTM strategyBrand & positioningDemand & ABMProduct marketingMarketing opsForecastingTeam building