Grant Gudgel

Grant Gudgel

Chief Marketing Officer

Locala

Grant Gudgel is chief marketing officer at Locala.

His career spans AI, media, corporate strategy, and emerging business models across the adtech industry. He co-founded and exited Vidcoin, held senior roles at Teads, Kargo, and Verve, and has advised on strategy and M&A diligence for multiple ad tech transactions.

Today, Gudgel focuses on separating signal from hype in AI and agentic systems, and on how these technologies can create real value for brands, agencies, and the adtech platforms that serve them.