Chad Garrett

PE GTM Operator | 4X CRO | Advisor | US Army Aviation Veteran

Atlanta, Georgia, United States7.9k followers
OneMove Advisoryex-Florence Healthcareex-TetraScience

I’m a SaaS operator with a track record of building and scaling go-to-market (GTM) engines for data-driven software companies across venture, private equity, and public environments. Private equity firms I've spent meaningful time with include Vista, TA Associates, and Insight

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Today, I am the lead GTM Operator at Accel-KKR. I'm focused on driving value from the firm's investment portfolio of B2B SaaS companies, where I work with their executives to optimize their GTM strategies and My most recent experience was as CRO at Florence Healthcare where I ran all GTM domains: sales, marketing and operations. Florence is the leading data platform for clinical trial operations and research site AI Prior to Florence, I worked in an advisory capacity with leading private equity firms including TA Associates, advising on growth strategy and GTM execution across their portfolio companies. I have also served as CRO for multiple high-growth SaaS companies including TetraScience and Dataiku during formative stages of the AI and data infrastructure wave, beginning in 2018. Across these roles, I’ve helped scale businesses from ~$0 to $30M ARR, $30M to $60M ARR, and $100M to $300M ARR. Earlier in my career, I served as SVP of Sales Strategy and Field Operations at Hortonworks, where I helped design and operationalize a new global GTM model that supported revenue growth from $189M to I also spent nearly a decade at public and PE company TIBCO Software, progressing from Sales Director to VP of Sales, and ultimately General Manager & SVP of Sales for the Analytics Division where I led global enterprise teams and consistently exceeding growth targets. TIBCO scaled to I've stepped outside of traditional sales leadership by leading revenue organizations as well. Beyond that, I’ve also been repeatedly asked to run transformation initiatives — from GTM redesigns to scaling operational infrastructure — experiences that have shaped my approach as a hands-on operator, focused on building repeatable growth I’m also a proud military veteran.

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  1. ONEMOVE ADVISORYJOB
    1. Board Member
      1Y 6M
    2. GTM Advisor
      1Y 3M
  2. ACCEL-KKRJOB
    1. Operating Principal - Head…
      5M
  3. FLORENCE HEALTHCAREJOB
    1. Chief Revenue Officer
      1Y 1M
  4. TETRASCIENCEJOB
    1. Chief Revenue Officer
      3Y 4M
  5. CAZENAJOB
    1. Chief Revenue Officer
      7M
  6. DATAIKUJOB
    1. Chief Revenue Officer
      1Y 2M
  7. HORTONWORKSJOB
    1. SVP of Global Sales Strate…
      1Y 11M
  8. TIBCO SOFTWAREJOB
    1. General Mgr & SVP - Spotfi…
      1Y 2M
    2. VP of Enterprise Sales US…
      11M
    3. VP of Strategic Initiative…
      1Y 2M
    4. Dir
      6Y 1M
  9. ASPECT SOFTWAREJOB
    1. Sr. Account Executive
      3Y 11M
  10. JACADAJOB
    1. Sr. Account Executive
      1Y 11M

Time in market 23Y 9MOpen 4Closed 12Stints 16

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  1. Job: OneMove Advisory — Board Member · 2025-04 – present · 1y 4mo
  2. Job: OneMove Advisory — GTM Advisor · 2024-01 – 2025-04 · 1y 3mo — GTM advisory and augmentation services provided to private equity firms such as TA Associates. Charter includes services to optimize GTM operations, planning, strategy and sales/marketing execution.
  3. Job: Florence Healthcare — Chief Revenue Officer · 2025-04 – 2026-05 · 1y 1mo — Life Sciences Data Platform - VC Growth AI and Clinical Trial Operations Data Platform for Pharma, CROs and clinical trial sites - with the industry's leading customer base of 65,000 clinical sites in 90+ countries. I ran global GTM functions, including Sales/Marketing/Operations.
  4. Job: TetraScience — Chief Revenue Officer · 2020-09 – 2024-01 · 3y 4mo — Series A to B - VC Growth TetraScience is the Scientific Data and AI Company building Tetra OS, the operating system for scientific intelligence across discovery, development, and manufacturing.​ I ran all GTM functions including: Field Sales, Channels, Customer Success, Professional Services, , Demand Gen, and Revenue Operations.
  5. Job: Cazena — Chief Revenue Officer · 2020-02 – 2020-09 · 7 mo — Series A - PE: Acquired by Cloudera. Cazena was a Cloud native Data Lake-as-a-Service Platform built to accelerate time to analytics from months to minutes. I was responsible for WW enterprise sales and all GTM functions.
  6. Job: Dataiku — Chief Revenue Officer · 2018-12 – 2020-02 · 1y 2mo — Series B to C - VC Growth Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate AI agents, analytics, and machine learning with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. I was responsible for all global GTM: field sales, pre-sales, channels, alliances, demand-gen, inside sales, planning & operations.
  7. Job: Hortonworks — SVP of Global Sales Strategy & Field Operations · 2017-01 – 2018-12 · 1y 11mo — Public: $184M to ~$300M ARR Hortonworks was acquired by Cloudera- Hortonworks was a Big Data platform designed to securely store, process and analyze your structured and unstructured data... ultimately making data available for advanced analytics and ML. I ran the global GTM sales strategy, planning, sales/services operations and global field operations.
  8. Job: TIBCO Software — General Manager & SVP - Spotfire Analytics · 2015-11 – 2017-01 · 1y 2mo — PE + Public (Vista Equity Partners): $600M-$1.1B GM responsible for the Spotfire analytics division of TIBCO. Spotfire is a visual/predictive/streaming analytics platform. Role included ownership of field sales, pre-sales, ops, marketing, and product for division.
  9. Job: TIBCO Software — Vice President of Enterprise Sales US + Federal · 2014-12 – 2015-11 · 11 mo — Ran sales for the US East, Central, Federal vertical, and Canada regions.
  10. Job: TIBCO Software — Director / Sr. Director of Sales - Southeast US · 2007-10 – 2013-11 · 6y 1mo — IC, then Sales manager for the Southeast enterprise sales team. Consistent overachievement. Earned top region globally for last 2 years.
  11. Job: Aspect Software — Sr. Account Executive · 2004 – 2007 · 3y — Aspect provided unified communications and contact center software solutions. I managed sales activities within a Southeast geography and Major accounts including: Home Depot, Disney, MCI, UPS and others.
  12. Job: Jacada — Sr. Account Executive · 2003 – 2004 · 1y — Maintained Southeast territory.
  13. Job: Accel-KKR — Operating Principal - Head of GTM (Head of GTM Engineering) · 2026-05 – present · 3 mo
  14. Job: TIBCO Software — Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Global Sales Transformation · 2013-10 – 2014-12 · 1y 2mo
  15. School: Georgia State University — Bachelor of Business Administration, Decision Sciences & Statistics
  16. School: University of Louisville — Undergraduate

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