Top 10 Trending Chief Revenue Officers
The ten most upward-trending executives in each C-suite discipline across the private growth sector this month. Tap any discipline above; tap a name for the full profile.
01
Sam Blond
President / CRO — Brex
Scaled Brex past $200M ARR as CRO then President — the definitive private fintech revenue architect
— Holding
Score 97.2
02
Ryan Longfield
Chief Revenue Officer — Gong
Turned conversation intelligence into a required sales stack item — Gong ARR crossed $300M on his watch
▲ Rising
Score 93.5
03
Stevie Case
Chief Revenue Officer — Vanta
Turned compliance SaaS into a sales motion companies actually want to buy — fastest-growing CRO in security
▲ Rising
Score 90.8
04
Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger
Chief Revenue Officer — Figure AI
Bridging physical AI and enterprise sales — building a category that did not exist 18 months ago
★ New Entry
Score 88.4
05
Catie Ivey
Chief Revenue Officer — Demandbase
ABM revenue authority — turned Demandbase into the pipeline generation tool of choice for enterprise
▲ Rising
Score 86.0
06
Mark Roberge
Managing Director — Stage 2 Capital
Author of The Sales Acceleration Formula — defined the modern CRO playbook, now investing in the next generation
— Holding
Score 83.7
07
Dennis Lyandres
Chief Revenue Officer — Procore (Former)
Scaled construction software CRO to $1B ARR — brought enterprise discipline to a legacy vertical
▼ Dropped
Score 81.2
08
Scott Leese
CRO / Founder — Scott Leese Consulting
Serial CRO at private SaaS companies — the practitioner architect who builds revenue teams from $0 to scale
▲ Rising
Score 78.9
09
Latane Conant
Chief Revenue Officer — 6sense
ABM revenue architect — wrote the operator playbook for intent-driven pipeline that thousands of B2B teams now run
★ New Entry
Score 75.4
10
Kory White
Regional President / CRO Equivalent — Verizon Cellular Sales (Former) / PulseRevOps.com
Breaking into the Top 10 for the first time — telecom revenue architect making waves in the national RevOps conversation
★ New Entry
Score 76.7
01
PC
Parker Conrad
Chief Executive Officer — Rippling
Scaling the only platform unifying HR, IT, and Finance — raised $500M at $13.5B valuation in 2024
— Holding
Score 99.0
02
AG
Ali Ghodsi
Chief Executive Officer — Databricks
Built the definitive private AI and data platform — $62B valuation, processing over 1 exabyte of data monthly
— Holding
Score 97.1
03
Alexandr Wang
Chief Executive Officer — Scale AI
Built the data labeling infrastructure that powers GPT-4, Gemini, and virtually every major frontier AI model
▲ Rising
Score 94.8
04
DF
Dylan Field
Chief Executive Officer — Figma
Survived a $20B Adobe acquisition attempt and emerged stronger — 4M daily users, fully independent
▲ Rising
Score 92.6
05
MP
Melanie Perkins
Chief Executive Officer — Canva
Built a $40B private design empire from Australia — the most valuable startup CEO most people overlook
▲ Rising
Score 90.3
06
PC
Patrick Collison
Chief Executive Officer — Stripe
Quietly built the payments infrastructure under the global internet — $70B private valuation, no IPO in sight
— Holding
Score 87.9
07
HW
Henry Ward
Chief Executive Officer — Carta
Turned cap table management into the infrastructure of private markets — 40,000+ companies on Carta
▲ Rising
Score 85.4
08
Amjad Masad
Chief Executive Officer — Replit
Made coding accessible to 25 million people — the CEO building the AI-native development environment
▲ Rising
Score 82.9
09
Howie Liu
Chief Executive Officer — Airtable
Redefined what a database product could look like — 450,000 organizations run on Airtable today
— Holding
Score 80.5
10
Guillaume Pousaz
Chief Executive Officer — Checkout.com
Built a $40B private payments infrastructure company — the most valuable private fintech in Europe
▲ Rising
Score 78.1
01
BL
Brad Lightcap
Chief Operating Officer — OpenAI
Runs day-to-day operations at the most consequential private AI lab on Earth — the COO behind ChatGPT's scale
— Holding
Score 98.3
02
Matt MacInnis
Chief Operating Officer — Rippling
Scaling Rippling's go-to-market and operations as the company approaches $500M ARR and global expansion
▲ Rising
Score 95.0
03
Naveen Rao
President — Databricks
Scaling the data intelligence platform at the center of every enterprise AI conversation
▲ Rising
Score 92.4
04
Claire Hughes Johnson
Chief Operating Officer — Stripe (Former)
Wrote the Stripe operating manual that became a template for high-growth tech ops
▲ Rising
Score 90.1
05
Vijay Gill
Chief Operating Officer — Navan
Scaling private enterprise travel and expense management — Navan valued at $9B and growing internationally
▲ Rising
Score 87.6
06
Anna Baird
Chief Revenue & Operating Officer — Outreach
Built the operational backbone of the leading private sales execution platform — took Outreach past $200M ARR
— Holding
Score 85.2
07
Sifat Sharif
Chief Executive Officer — Intercom
Former COO turned CEO at the private customer messaging platform — led Intercom's AI-first transformation
▲ Rising
Score 82.7
08
Dan Sacks
Chief Operating Officer — Gong
Operationalizing the revenue intelligence platform scaling past $300M ARR — private SaaS efficiency model
▼ Dropped
Score 80.3
09
Ali Rowghani
Partner / Former COO — Y Combinator / Twitter
Ran operations at Twitter and Pixar before becoming one of Silicon Valley's most impactful growth investors
— Holding
Score 77.8
10
LB
Leah Busque Solivan
Founder / Operator — TaskRabbit
Built and operated the gig economy marketplace before it was a category — then led the operator-investor path
▲ Rising
Score 75.4
01
Michael Tannenbaum
Co-Founder / COO — Brex
Built the financial infrastructure of the private corporate card that rewired startup spending — co-founder and original CFO
— Holding
Score 97.8
02
Vivian Fang
Chief Financial Officer — Figma
The CFO navigating Figma's post-Adobe independence and building toward one of tech's most anticipated IPOs
▲ Rising
Score 94.6
03
Shem Elmelech
Chief Financial Officer — Rippling
Managing the financial architecture of one of the most watched pre-IPO B2B SaaS companies on the market
★ New Entry
Score 92.1
04
Dave Morton
Chief Financial Officer — Databricks
CFO at the most valuable private AI company — building the financial architecture for a generational IPO
▲ Rising
Score 89.7
05
Dave Sobota
Chief Financial Officer — Gong
The CFO behind one of the most capital-efficient paths to $300M ARR in private enterprise SaaS
▼ Dropped
Score 87.3
06
Rachel Quon
VP Finance — Brex
Financial infrastructure builder at one of the most innovative private fintech companies in the world
▲ Rising
Score 84.9
07
Harjeet Taggar
Partner / Co-Founder — Y Combinator / Triplebyte
Startup finance and talent authority — shapes the capital strategy of 4,000+ funded private companies
▲ Rising
Score 82.5
08
Ravi Mhatre
Founding Partner — Lightspeed Venture Partners
Operator-investor hybrid defining financial rigor at the growth stage — backed 3 private decacorns
— Holding
Score 80.1
09
Amy Butte
CFO / Board Member — NYSE (Former) / Private Boards
The Wall Street CFO who brought enterprise financial discipline to the private tech ecosystem
▲ Rising
Score 77.7
10
Dhivya Suryadevara
CFO — Stripe (Former)
Brought Wall Street CFO rigor to one of the world's most valuable private companies — Stripe at $95B
▲ Rising
Score 75.2
01
AK
Andrej Karpathy
Founder / CTO — Eureka Labs
The scientist who made self-driving and large language models real — founding his own private AI education company
— Holding
Score 99.2
02
MM
Mira Murati
Founder / CTO — OpenAI (Former)
Built the engineering culture behind GPT-4 — CTO of the most consequential AI lab on Earth
— Holding
Score 97.0
03
Pedro Franceschi
CTO / Co-Founder — Brex
Built bank-grade fintech infrastructure from scratch at 18 — one of the most technically accomplished founders in private SaaS
▲ Rising
Score 94.5
04
Shariq Rizvi
Chief Technology Officer — Rippling
Engineering the most ambitious private B2B SaaS architecture — unified HR, IT, and Finance in 140+ countries
▲ Rising
Score 92.1
05
Tomer London
CTO / Co-Founder — Gusto
Built the payroll and HR infrastructure trusted by 400,000 private businesses — a decade of technical leadership
▲ Rising
Score 89.7
06
Harrison Chase
CEO / Co-Founder — LangChain
Built the most widely adopted framework for AI applications — powers thousands of private enterprise LLM deployments
▲ Rising
Score 87.2
07
Guillermo Rauch
CEO / CTO — Vercel
Built the deployment platform under half the internet — Next.js has over 1M developers worldwide
▲ Rising
Score 84.8
08
Shishir Mehrotra
CEO / Co-Founder — Coda
Former YouTube product head who built Coda into the $1.4B document platform replacing spreadsheets and apps
★ New Entry
Score 82.4
09
Astasia Myers
General Partner — Quiet Capital
One of the most influential operator-investors in developer tooling and AI infrastructure
— Holding
Score 80.0
10
Jared Friedman
Partner — Y Combinator
The technical gatekeeper of YC — shapes the technology choices of 4,000+ funded startups
▲ Rising
Score 77.5
01
AR
Atif Rafiq
President / CDO — MGM Resorts (Former)
Brought Silicon Valley product thinking to hospitality — one of the most impactful digital transformation leaders in private-sector enterprise
— Holding
Score 98.1
02
Monica Caldas
EVP and CIO — Liberty Mutual
Led cloud transformation of a $45B private insurance giant — zero critical system downtime in 18 months
▲ Rising
Score 95.3
03
BT
Bret Taylor
CEO / Co-Founder — Sierra AI
Co-creator of Google Maps, CTO of Salesforce, now founding the private enterprise AI platform built on trust
★ New Entry
Score 92.7
04
Tim Campos
CIO — Meta / Facebook (Former)
Managed internal tech infrastructure for 2B users — now backing private companies as the CIO model evolves
▲ Rising
Score 90.2
05
Dione Hedgpeth
Chief Customer Officer — Sophos
Building the customer and technology infrastructure at one of the world's most respected private cybersecurity companies
— Holding
Score 87.6
06
Jim Routh
CISO — MassMutual
Security and technology leader protecting America's largest private repository of personal financial data
▲ Rising
Score 85.1
07
Mark Settle
CIO / Author — Okta (Former)
Author of Truth from the Valley — the practitioner guide to private-company technology leadership
▲ Rising
Score 82.5
08
Avon Puri
Chief Information Officer — Mimecast
Technology leader at a private PE-backed cybersecurity company protecting 40,000+ businesses globally
★ New Entry
Score 80.0
09
Alex Circei
CEO / CTO — Waydev
Building the engineering analytics layer that gives CIOs real visibility into developer productivity at scale
▲ Rising
Score 77.4
10
Jocelyn Goldfein
General Partner — Andreessen Horowitz
From Facebook engineering director to a16z GP — the most technically credible technology investor in enterprise AI
▲ Rising
Score 74.9
01
Sangram Vajre
CEO / Co-Founder — GTM Partners / Terminus
The B2B CMO who wrote the ABM playbook and went on to define private go-to-market strategy itself
— Holding
Score 97.6
02
Latane Conant
CMO — 6sense
Wrote No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls — rewired how enterprise marketing teams generate pipeline
▲ Rising
Score 94.9
03
Meagen Eisenberg
Chief Marketing Officer — Navan
Startup CMO who built demand gen machines at Docker, MongoDB, and now the $9B private travel platform
— Holding
Score 92.2
04
Camille Ricketts
Chief Marketing Officer — Notion
The CMO who turned a productivity tool into a cultural movement — Notion reaches 35M users without advertising
▼ Dropped
Score 89.5
05
Dave Gerhardt
CMO / Founder — Exit Five
The marketer who built a 25,000-person private community proving B2B marketing can be interesting
▲ Rising
Score 86.8
06
Maria Pergolino
Chief Marketing Officer — ActiveCampaign
Built enterprise demand gen machines at Marketo, Apttus, and Anaplan — now CMO at the $3B private automation platform
★ New Entry
Score 84.1
07
Jonathan Mildenhall
CMO / Founder — Airbnb (Former) / TwentyFirstCenturyBrand
Created Belong Anywhere — one of the most powerful brand positioning statements of the decade
▼ Dropped
Score 81.4
08
Kyle Coleman
CMO — Copy.ai
AI-first GTM leader at the frontier of what a sales motion looks like in a world of LLMs
★ New Entry
Score 78.7
09
Joe Chernov
Chief Marketing Officer — Pendo (Former)
Content-led demand gen pioneer — defined Pendo's brand in the product analytics category
▲ Rising
Score 76.0
10
Elissa Fink
Former CMO / Executive Advisor — Tableau (Former)
Core executive on the team that built Tableau into a $15B private-to-acquisition story — advising the next SaaS generation
▲ Rising
Score 73.3
01
Maia Josebachvili
VP People — Stripe
Architect of Stripe's people strategy during the decade that built the internet's private financial infrastructure
— Holding
Score 98.5
02
Nathalie Scardino
Chief People Officer — Databricks
Building the people organization for the most valuable private AI company — 10,000 employees and growing rapidly
▲ Rising
Score 95.8
03
Jeff Diana
Chief People Officer — 1Password
Building the people function for one of the most trusted private security companies in the world
▼ Dropped
Score 93.1
04
Holly May
CHRO — Bacardi
People leader at one of the world's most beloved private family companies — Bacardi has been privately owned for 162 years
— Holding
Score 90.4
05
Lexi Reese
Chief People & Revenue Officer — Gusto
Built people-first culture at Gusto from 0 to 2,000+ employees — NPS consistently above 80
▲ Rising
Score 87.7
06
Gianna Driver
CHRO — Exabeam
Security-sector people leader defining what modern HR looks like in a high-stakes technical environment
▲ Rising
Score 85.0
07
Lars Schmidt
Founder — Amplify Talent
The practitioner-connector defining modern HR leadership in private tech — recruits and develops the world's best CHROs
★ New Entry
Score 82.3
08
Amy Spurling
CEO / Founder — Compt
Founded the private benefits platform that finally lets companies offer flexible, personalized perks at scale
★ New Entry
Score 79.6
09
Tim Sackett
President — HRU Technical Resources
The most candid practitioner voice in talent acquisition — author, speaker, operator of a private staffing firm
▲ Rising
Score 76.9
10
Katelin Holloway
Partner — Initialized Capital
Former VP People at Reddit, now coaching private company founders on talent — operator-investor in the CHRO mold
★ New Entry
Score 74.2
01
Kyle Parrish
VP Sales / CSO — Figma
First sales hire to VP — built the team that made design a team sport and led Figma to $20B valuation
— Holding
Score 97.9
02
Tonni Bennett
VP of Sales — Terminus
ABM sales authority — built Terminus into the definitive account-based sales platform in B2B
▲ Rising
Score 95.2
03
Mark Kosoglow
VP Sales — Outreach
The practitioner CSO — blogs, teaches, and builds sequences that reps actually use
▼ Dropped
Score 92.5
04
Jeremey Donovan
EVP Revenue Strategy — Insight Partners
The operator-investor defining modern sales science — builds sales playbooks that actually work at 800+ portfolio companies
▲ Rising
Score 89.8
05
Kevin Dorsey
Founder / CSO — Practice Lab
The most-followed sales practitioner on LinkedIn — his content is read by 500,000 sales professionals weekly
▲ Rising
Score 87.1
06
Jason Lemkin
Founder / Managing Director — SaaStr
Built the world's largest private SaaS community — 15,000 founders and revenue leaders meet at SaaStr Annual
— Holding
Score 84.4
07
Sahil Mansuri
CEO / Co-Founder — Bravado
Built the 150,000-member private professional community redefining sales careers and comp transparency
★ New Entry
Score 81.7
08
Chris Orlob
Co-Founder — PClub
Turned Gong's sales intelligence data into the most widely taught enterprise sales methodology in private SaaS
▲ Rising
Score 79.0
09
Scott Leese
CRO / Founder — Scott Leese Consulting
Serial private-company CRO and Surf and Sales co-host — the architect building revenue teams from the ground up
▲ Rising
Score 76.3
10
Keenan
CEO / Founder — A Sales Guy Inc.
Author of Gap Selling — one of the most practical sales books of the decade, now training enterprise reps worldwide
▲ Rising
Score 73.6
01
DP
DJ Patil
Chief Data Scientist — US Gov / Devoted Health
America's first Chief Data Scientist — shaped national data policy and AI ethics at the highest level
— Holding
Score 98.7
02
UF
Usama Fayyad
CDO / Founder — Open Insights
Coined the term data mining — 30-year career at the intersection of data science and business
— Holding
Score 96.0
03
Josh Wills
Head of Data Platform — Slack (Former)
Built the data platform infrastructure during Slack's rise from 0 to 12M daily users before the $27B acquisition
▼ Dropped
Score 93.3
04
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Chief Product Officer — Pendo
Data-native product leader — built the analytics layer that 7,000 software companies use to understand users
▲ Rising
Score 90.6
05
Ari Lightman
Professor / CDO — Carnegie Mellon
The academic-practitioner bridging enterprise CDO roles and modern data strategy
▲ Rising
Score 87.9
06
Josh Bottger
CDO — Attentive
Building real-time data infrastructure behind 8,000 SMS marketing campaigns per second — private AI marketing leader
▲ Rising
Score 85.2
07
Arif Janmohamed
Partner — Lightspeed Venture Partners
AI and data infrastructure investor with 5 unicorns in portfolio — operator before becoming a VC
— Holding
Score 82.5
08
Elena Grewal
CDO — Airbnb (Former)
Led the data organization through Airbnb's most critical private-company years — IPO prep, COVID, and recovery
▲ Rising
Score 79.8
09
Prukalpa Sankar
Co-Founder — Atlan
Co-founded the private data catalog that Gartner named a Magic Quadrant leader — built for how data teams actually work
★ New Entry
Score 77.1
10
Barr Moses
CEO / Co-Founder — Monte Carlo
Coined 'data observability' and built the private category that became essential infrastructure for 150+ enterprises
▲ Rising
Score 74.4
