Culture
Branch leadership team
David Karnstedt (he/him)
Chief Executive Officer
About
David is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Branch. For over 25 years, David has provided executive leadership with consistent focus and execution throughout the marketing technology ecosystem. David has a proven record as a scalable team-builder and world-class operator at Adobe, Efficient Frontier, Yahoo!, and Overture. Also, David has served on the Boards of Demandbase, Vantiv, Quantifind, and JumpTap, along with Senior Advisory appointments at Redpoint Ventures, and TPG Capital.
Irina Bukatik (she/her)
VP of Product
About
Irina is VP of Product at Branch. Irina and her team are instrumental in shaping product vision and product roadmaps, launching successful products, and driving revenue growth. Her ability to anticipate market trends, identify customer needs, and translate insights into innovative product solutions sets her apart as a strategic thinker and results-oriented leader.
Paula Mantle (she/her)
VP of Marketing
About
Paula is VP of Marketing at Branch. In her role, she is focused on introducing Branch to growth-oriented teams that are excited to learn about an enterprise solution to their daily challenges with linking and measurement. With over 15 years of experience leading multi-channel marketing efforts, Paula takes pride in building and executing creative marketing that informs and educates.
Stephanie Herndon-Rasse (she/her)
VP of Customer Experience
About
Stephanie is VP of Customer Experience at Branch, where she oversees improving the customer journey. With over 20 years of experience guiding businesses through their digital transformation journey, Stephanie brings unparalleled first-hand experience building programs that prioritize nurturing relationships and helping customers bring value to their organization.
Sahil Singh (he/him)
VP of Global SaaS Sales
About
Sahil is VP of Global SaaS Sales at Branch where he oversees the sales, pre-sales, business development, and business strategy functions. Sahil brings over 15 years of experience building GTM functions for SaaS companies across martech, customer experience, fintech, and revenue intelligence verticals. Sahil is a passionate leader focused on building a team of trusted advisors who help the world’s leading businesses scale their mobile growth efforts by utilizing Branch’s enterprise-grade platform.
Rick Johnson (he/him)
VP of Finance
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Rick serves as VP of Finance at Branch where he leads the finance, revenue operations, and business operations teams. His focus extends from daily operations to long-term strategic planning. Rick plays a key role as an advisor on investment decisions, operational initiatives, and growth strategies to meet the financial obligations of Branch employees, customers, partners, and investors.
Harish Thimmappa (he/him)
General Manager of Discovery
About
Harish is VP and general manager for Branch’s Discovery business. In his role, he leads all partnerships and advertising business relationships. Harish has over two decades of experience growing technology businesses.
Jeremy Goldsmith (he/him)
VP of Engineering
About
Jeremy is VP of Engineering at Branch, where he oversees software engineering, data science, IT, and security. Jeremy has a passion for building high-performing and collaborative product development teams that are focused on solving customer problems and delivering awesome digital products. He brings 25 years of experience as a technology leader at companies such as Contentful, Salesforce, and Return Path.
Christine Park
Chief Transformation Officer
About
Christine has years of hands-on experience steering industry-leading organizations like Pantheon, Sitecore, and TriNet through transformational growth to win in the market. Her goal is to transform the work lives of employees by bringing out the leader within, one interaction at a time.
Jim Stothard
SVP of Global Revenue Operations
About
Jim is SVP of Global Revenue Operations at Branch, overseeing GTM Ops, Growth Initiatives and Business Ops & Solutions. Jim has 25 years experience in operational leadership across a diversified set of early stage & public technology companies, including: Yahoo!, Overture, AltaVista & Garmin. He brings a deep understanding of how to align framework and systems to effectively scale performance across the entire go-to-market engine.
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