Brett Starr Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Hitch Partners is a retained executive search firm that partners with technology companies on mission critical leadership roles. Our client partners range from pre-revenue startup companies to large public companies and everything in between. Check out our website (www.hitchpartners.com) for details on our practice, featured client partners & our dream team.Functional Emphasis: Security (CISO, CSO, VP / Head of SecEng), GTM (Sales, Marketing, Product), Engineering, Infrastructure & IT / CIO rolesDomain Expertise: Security, Enterprise Software / Infrastructure / Cloud Computing (SAAS / PAAS / IAAS), Storage, Clean Tech, Semiconductor, Networking, Systems (Internet of Things), etc.Rebranded to Hitch Partners in 2017

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Based in the Silicon Valley office of a boutique retained executive search firm. Drove entire engagement process to help start-ups as well as public companies hire top tier execs for key roles such as CEO, GM, VP Eng, VP Sales, VP Ops, VP Product Mgmt, VP Marketing etc. Covered a smorgasbord of tech industries such as: enterprise software, hardware, firmware, middleware (basically anything-ware), semiconductors, adtech etc.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

I was responsible for overall account management and strategy to penetrate high barrier large corporate accounts where Dell was not the lead supplier of computer hardware, software, and services. Learned how to do sales at a fairly large scale and navigate large company politics.

Venture backed Internet-of-Things startup (August Capital, Intel Capital) which developed a software platform connecting a variety of devices directly to back-end enterprise applications. Negotiated and closed deals with initial set of customers and partners. We were 10+ years too early in the IoT space however I would not trade this experience for anything as I learned a ton & had the opportunity to work & learn from some great humans!

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led cross-functional teams for key corporate initiatives such as the roll-out of initial firmware releases to OEM and channel customers (IBM, Dell, HP / Compaq etc).

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Directed the cross functional launch of SkyTel's 2Way messaging products and services, known today as Texting. SkyTel was acq by WCOM. Texting in the mid 90s .. seriously .. yep we did that pre Crackberry. Worked with & learned from some amazing people and delivered some some seriously complex & innovative products.