GTM & Commercialization · Toronto, ON

Most GTM problems aren't product problems. They're static.

I'm Tanisha Smith. For 20+ years I've turned complex enterprise platforms — cloud, AI, telecom — into revenue, by finding the signal buyers actually act on underneath the noise.

NOISE SIGNAL
The throughline

The Translation Tax™

Every platform I've worked on could already do what it claimed. The gap was never capability — it was translation: turning what a product does into a reason a buyer acts.

The revenue cost of that gap is what I call the Translation Tax. I've spent two decades closing it — inside a $1.5B enterprise portfolio, a first-in-Canada product launch, and now as a framework I bring to companies directly through favr GTM.

Track record

What closing the gap has looked like

$1.5BPortfolio scope — Voice & Collaboration, Bell Canada
67%Growth in closed AWS opportunities within 8 months
$60M+Pipeline sourced in 6 weeks — Canada's first Public MEC launch
120%Of ACV target — $11M TCV account-based motion
1.2%→~0Churn reduction within months via intent-led targeting
488%Overachievement — Akamai/FireEye demand program
Experience

Two decades, one throughline

Founder — favr GTM & Clarté
2026 — PRESENT
Built an independent GTM consulting practice and a deal-intelligence platform for enterprise B2B sales teams, after two decades operating inside enterprise commercialization.
Senior GTM, Product Marketing & Commercialization Leader — Bell Canada
02/2024 — 03/2025
Led GTM strategy across a $1.5B Voice & Collaboration portfolio, including joint commercialization with Microsoft for Teams Phone Mobile.
Senior Manager, Go-to-Market, AWS Cloud Portfolio — Bell Canada
10/2022 — 02/2024
Co-developed 10 GTM offers with AWS product and partner teams; drove 67% growth in closed opportunities in 8 months.
Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public MEC — Bell Canada
10/2021 — 09/2022
Built Canada's first Public MEC go-to-market from the ground up; $60M+ pipeline within six weeks of launch.
Earlier — KPMG Jamaica, RJR Communications, Digicel, Flow Jamaica, Fujitsu Caribbean
2007 — 2019
Commercialization and marketing leadership across Caribbean and North American markets. Full detail on request.
Two ways to work with me

Hire me, or bring me in

For employers

Looking for a Director or VP

I'm exploring full-time GTM, Product Marketing, Commercialization, and Strategic Alliance roles — ideally where enterprise complexity meets a partner ecosystem like AWS or Microsoft.

For enterprise teams

Need a commercialization gap closed

Through favr GTM, I advise enterprise technology companies on closing the gap between commercial strategy and field execution — GTM strategy, launch, and partner programs.

Building

What I'm building alongside this

favr GTM

Independent GTM consulting practice. Home of the Commercial Architecture™ framework and the Translation Tax™ thesis.

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Clarté

Deal intelligence platform for enterprise B2B sales teams. Buying Committee Digital Twin™ and Closability Score™, now at design-partner stage.

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Care Connect

An application addressing care-coordination gaps in the Canadian healthcare system — built from firsthand experience navigating care for family.