Top 9 Fractional CMOs in Atlanta to Hire in 2026

Josh Cherfoli leads Cherfoli Marketing Group, drawing on two decades of brand and marketing experience that includes campaigns and strategic work for Porsche, Georgia Aquarium, and other brands.

Through fractional brand and marketing leadership, Cherfoli helps organizations connect positioning, customer experience, and marketing execution. His work combines creative storytelling with data analysis, bringing an executive perspective to building brands and measuring their impact on growth.

Patrick Elliott founded Four Cross Advisory after 20 years in marketing and revenue leadership across software, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services, including senior B2B marketing roles.

He works as a fractional CMO for small and mid-market businesses, aligning marketing, sales, customer service, and operations around revenue growth. His experience spans enterprise account-based marketing, pharmaceutical launches, pricing strategy, and building practical growth plans for companies without full-time marketing executives.

Joshua Ramsey provides fractional CMO leadership through JRCMO, drawing on 20 years of marketing experience, extensive media buying, and hands-on management of advertising agencies and campaigns.

His work centers on identifying profitable lead sources, improving conversion rates, and reducing wasted marketing spend. He develops messaging and marketing management systems designed to increase sales, repeat business, and profitability, with a dedicated fractional CMO offering for Atlanta businesses.

Mark Gabrielli founded MarkCMO, a fractional executive practice serving B2B companies. His leadership experience spans marketing and operations in technology, SaaS, healthcare, and industrial markets.

Gabrielli embeds with leadership teams to manage marketing strategy, demand generation, positioning, and revenue accountability. His operating background also covers team management and process improvement, giving clients a combination of marketing leadership and operational execution.

Darren Squires founded Squires Media Group, a marketing firm serving service businesses. His background combines marketing leadership with business operations and P&L responsibility.

Squires provides fractional CMO leadership for regional service companies, connecting SEO, paid media, web development, and attribution to revenue goals. His firm's integrated approach includes the Squires Media Method, with dedicated services for businesses in the Atlanta market.

Michael Taylor founded Simple Mind Inc. and serves as fractional CMO at Solutions-II. His career includes founding Merge Agency and advising service businesses on brand and growth strategy.

Taylor specializes in making complex business offerings easier to understand and sell. At Solutions-II, his fractional leadership connects brand positioning, marketing strategy, and sales execution, helping a cybersecurity and managed-services business communicate its value and strengthen its growth programs.

Dzifa Tamakloe-Amegatse is a fractional CMO and founder of Starcs Digital with more than 15 years of consumer goods marketing experience, including roles at Nestlé Health Science, KIK, and Weleda.

Her work combines consumer insights, brand strategy, ecommerce performance, and cross-functional execution. She has managed large consumer product portfolios and improved Amazon advertising performance, bringing structured marketing leadership to brands seeking growth without hiring a full-time CMO.

Neely Thomson is an independent fractional CMO and marketing systems architect with 20 years of B2B SaaS and fintech experience, including leadership in fintech payments and nonprofit organizations.

Thomson builds marketing systems for software companies selling to regulated and institutional buyers. Her work spans marketing automation, sales enablement, AI-driven transformation, and team development, with an emphasis on creating processes clients can operate independently after an engagement.

Rupal Patel founded Momentum360, a fractional marketing consultancy serving small and mid-sized businesses. Her experience spans marketing and consulting at Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, and EY.

Patel provides hands-on marketing leadership for healthcare, retail, and growing businesses, connecting strategy with campaign execution. Her work covers demand generation, product marketing, customer acquisition, website optimization, and practical growth programs that smaller organizations can sustain.