George McLaughlin

I’m a creative entrepreneur and the founder of Striking Tiger Media, a bold creative media and lifestyle brand launched in March 2025. I’m passionate about helping individuals, artists, entrepreneurs, businesses, and community organizations turn their ideas into impactful content, original apparel, and custom merchandise. My strengths include creative direction, brand development, apparel and merchandise concepts, customer service, project coordination, vendor management, and community relationship-building. I’m currently focused on growing Striking Tiger Media by securing a storefront, purchasing professional media and DTF equipment, and bringing more production in-house. My long-term vision is to create a recognizable lifestyle brand and an accessible community hub where creativity, commerce, and collaboration come together.

Founder/Owner @ Striking Tiger Media (Mar 2025 – ) Founder of Striking Tiger Media, a creative studio specializing in custom apparel, branded merchandise, promotional products, brand songs, promotional videos, and marketing collateral that help companies stand out and get remembered. We help organizations bring their brand to life through creative content and merchandise that connects with customers, employees, and event audiences. Our work includes: ·  Custom apparel & branded merchandise - corporate swag, promotional products, event gear, shirts, hats, and branded items people actually want to wear ·  Original brand songs & anthems - custom music created for company launches, events, celebrations, and brand storytelling ·  Promotional & brand videos - creative videos that energize teams, highlight brands, and bring messages to life ·  Marketing collateral & presentation design - pitch decks, sales collateral, logos, and visual assets that help companies communicate clearly and confidently Striking Tiger Media helps brands create experiences people wear, watch, hear, and share - turning ideas into memorable moments that make brands impossible to ignore. Leadership Member @ PreSales Collective (Nov 2022 – ) Senior Principal @ Exactus Advisors (May 2024 – Jul 2026) Head of Sales Engineering @ Continuous Technologies (Nov 2023 – May 2024) Enabling Quote to Consumption VP GTM Solutions and Productivity @ Zilliant (Oct 2022 – Nov 2023) Lead a global GTM team and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Services and Customer Success/Support to ensure a connected and efficient customer journey. VP, GTM and Sales Engineering @ Northlight Solutions Group (Jul 2022 – Oct 2022) VP, Solutions Engineering @ Nue.io (Apr 2022 – May 2022) Executive Vice President, Pre-Sales and Delivery @ Navint Partners (Sep 2020 – Apr 2022) Lead a global team of Client Success professionals across pre-sales and delivery in providing advisory, process optimization and Salesforce Revenue Cloud expertise. Assist customers in optimizing their revenue lifecycle through consultative selling, domain expertise and implementing solutions that maximize the value to their organization. Provide transformational and implementation services for Salesforce technologies including the Revenue Cloud, managing the impact of technology changes on customer’s business processes and providing ongoing guidance to help mitigate risk and ensure that the technologies in place enable the desired outcomes. Created an Unmanaged Package for Salesforce Revenue Cloud that provides Finance support by creating journal entries for all transactions across the Lead to Revenue lifecycle. The package also included reports, dashboards and other components not provided out of the box. Developed and maintained integration from Salesforce Revenue Cloud to NetSuite and QuickBooks leveraging Workato. Vice President Expert Services, Revenue Cloud @ Navint Partners (Jan 2020 – Sep 2020) Lead the technical pre-sales team by providing advisory, process optimization and Salesforce CPQ & Billing expertise throughout the customer's journey with Navint. Our team assists customers in optimizing their Lead to Revenue Lifecycle by conducting Lead to Revenue Assessments, providing thought leadership and presenting custom CPQ & Billing demonstrations that align to their business requirements. In addition, we provide transformational services and guidance which includes the implementation of recurring revenue models, managing the impact of technology changes on customer's business processes and providing ongoing guidance to help mitigate risk and ensure that the technologies in place enable the desired outcomes. In order to demonstrate how Salesforce and ERP compliment each other, I built integration using Workato to showcase the hand-offs between Salesforce and NetSuite: Lead to Order, Lead to Invoice, Lead to Payment and Lead to Ledger. Principal Client Manager, Revenue Cloud @ Navint Partners (Mar 2019 – Jan 2020) Director of Sales Engineering @ Clari (Aug 2018 – Mar 2019) Lead a team of Sales Engineers as player/coach who were focused on a Salesforce based opportunity management and forecasting tool. Responsible for career development, hiring and overall team health. Director, Sales Engineering - Apttus Intelligent Cloud @ Conga (Aug 2017 – Aug 2018) Lead a team of Sales Engineers as player/coach, actively participating in strategic CPQ, CLM, Revenue and Billing deals. Responsible for career development, hiring and ongoing well-being. Recognized as the subject matter expert for all AIC deals and participate in all high-visibility deals as the lead SE. High caliber, consistent performing team, driving year over year growth annually. Sales Engineering Manager, Apttus Intelligent Cloud @ Conga (Oct 2015 – Jul 2017) Lead and develop a team of Sales Engineers dedicated to maintaining the best possible perception of Apttus products and services to prospective and existing customers. Dedicated to the progressing the Apttus Intelligent Cloud solution across the globe, this team of Apttus professionals focuses on all aspects of the Quote to Cash footprint including Configure Price Quote and Contract Lifecycle Management. Principal Sales Engineer @ Conga (Dec 2014 – Oct 2015) As one of the most tenured sales engineers, I supported field account executives globally. I possessed domain expertise which was highly sought after to help accelerate the sales engineering team’s evolution from product focused to solution focused demonstrations. With my Accounting background, I was recognized as one of the sales engineers who could deliver our Revenue Management and Billing demonstrations. Consistently exceeded expectations and was promoted within 10 months. Regional Lead - Great Lakes Region at Oracle USA @ Oracle, USA (Sep 2012 – Dec 2014) Mapped to the RVP in the Central Mid-Market Region, Worked closely with the sales engineering team to deliver high quality, compelling demos to prospects and customers. As a team, we developed and managed regional forecasts for a $20MM budget, close plans and held strategy sessions for the 8 Account Executives who covered the region. The region consistently overachieved against budget. Sales Engineering Manager @ Oracle USA, Inc. (Jun 2007 – Sep 2012) Managed a team of 12 Sales Engineers who focused in the eBusiness Suite. The team included sales engineers who covered every area of ERP – Financials, HR/PR, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and eCommerce. As a team, we successfully closed deals that spanned industries and brought in over $20MM in ACV to Oracle. Principal Application Sales Engineer @ Oracle USA, Inc. (Sep 1999 – Jun 2007) Hired as a Financials Sales Consultant because of my Accounting background, I quickly made a name for myself in areas outside of the Finance world. I became a SME in the areas of treasury, Project Management, Procurement/Inventory, Order Management, Advanced Pricing and eCommerce. I had many successful years and became a sought-after Sales Consultant throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions. I was the Lead SC for several key accounts representing over $12MM in ACV. Senior Sales Engineer @ OPSoft Technologies - an Oracle Authorized Reseller (Jul 1996 – Sep 1999) Implemented Oracle’s eBusiness Suite and was the Project Manager on several key implementations in the Pittsburgh area. Worked closely with the local Oracle Sales Consulting team and was asked to work deals with them as they did not have a strong Financials Sales Consultant on their team. This was the catapult to my joining Oracle. Director of Finance @ St. Francis Medical Center (Apr 1992 – Jul 1996) I was brought in by the CFO to manage a major business process re-engineering project. I worked closely with the department managers in the Business and Registrar’s Offices to implement new processes and procedures as well as a new patient accounting system. The work I did eliminated all manual processes and increased patient satisfaction when dealing with the Patient Billing and Business Offices. Director of Finance @ Weirton Osteopathic Hospital (Aug 1989 – Apr 1992) Managed all finance activities for a 30-bed acute care facility. I managed Payroll, the Business and Registration Offices and worked closely with the Nursing Administration. I assisted the Board of Directors in raising $30MM in funds to build a state of the art facility which was completed in early 1991.