Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Brett is a Partner at Bonfire Ventures. His entire career has been focused on growing software companies -- fast. From 2013-2016, Brett served as COO at SmartRecruiters, where he partnered with the founder to work through the 'hard things about hard things" and converted a pre-revenue company into the fastest growing and highest-rated enterprise player in the recruiting technology space. Prior to SmartRecruiters, Brett spent a decade at Salesforce.com where he served in a variety of senior leadership roles in Sales, R&D, and Operations focused on driving the company's growth and expansion across market segments and product categories. Select titles held at Salesforce included VP of Field Operations, SVP Operations, SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing Cloud. Prior to Salesforce.com, Brett held senior marketing and business development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle). Brett is an active seed investor and advisor to numerous software entrepreneurs and serves on the board of SmartRecruiters, Pendo, Lytics, Invoca, ClearedIn, SpekIt, and Aforza. Other angel investments include MOAT (acquired by Oracle for $850mm), Guru, Outreach, Postie, and Trackstreet. Brett has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.