Meet NYC's Enterprise Leaders: Introducing Work-Bench's Next NYC Network

As an enterprise software VC firm here at Work-Bench, our mission has always been to find, fund, and support game-changing enterprise software founders, at the earliest stage. 

That said, we have not done this alone in our decade-long journey. Beyond our Work-Bench team, we’re grateful to have an incredible group of partners who have helped scale our portfolio companies and greater NYC ecosystem, and to announce them today:

We’re excited to launch this dedicated network to better connect NYC’s leading enterprise operators: to learn, share, and swap new tactics, identify the next generation of great talent, and support one another in the good enterprise fight.

Who They Are 🤓

Our Work-Bench Next NYC Network is comprised of functional leaders across Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Success, Engineering, and more, from the world’s fastest growing and most iconic enterprise companies based in NYC.

They’ve been through it all - from finding product-marketing fit and testing go-to-market motions to building teams and closing million dollar contacts. These operators have joined our bench to help our community scale enterprise startup growth with playbooks on how to go from $0 to $100M to IPO.

Meet Our Inaugural Network 👋

• Jared Abelowitz, VP of Pipeline Growth, Spring Health

• Micah Steiger, Director of Enterprise Sales, Datadog

• Eleanor Dorfman, Head of Sales, Retool

• Mark Kosoglow, Chief Revenue Officer, Catalyst

• Kiran Narsu, Founder, KLN Advisory

• Victoria Vassileva, Senior Account Director, Arthur

• Brian Trowbridge, VP of Sales, FireHydrant

• Marc Jacobs, Chief Revenue Officer, CHEQ

• Jeff Yoshimura, Chief Marketing Officer, Snyk

• Amy Holtzman, Chief Marketing Officer, CHEQ

• Ryan Narod, Head of Marketing, Mutiny 

• Audrey Patenaude, VP of Marketing, RippleMatch 

• Denise Broady, Chief Marketing Officer, Collibra

• Sha Ma, Chief Technology Officer, Catalyst

• Jordan Lewis, Senior Director of Engineering, Cockroach Labs

• Ian McGraw, Engineering Manager, Arthur

• Suchit Agarwal, Director of Engineering, Okta 

• Aaron Zollman, CISO & VP of Platform Engineering, Cedar

• Lindsay Kulkin, VP of Global AI Professional Services, DataRobot

• George Chedzhemov, SVP of Client Services, BigID 

• Abe Danziger, VP of Customer Success, Cockroach Labs 

• Nondas Virvidakis, VP of Professional Services, ActionIQ 

• Monica Ugwi, Former Head of Product, UX, Docs, RudderStack

• Andrew Davidson, SVP of Product, MongoDB

• Stephen Lynch, EVP of Product Development, AlphaSense 

• Sanjay Padval, Group Product Manger, Vanta

• Prerna Singh, VP Product Management, Meetup

• Amber Tunnell, Senior Product Manager, Datadog

• Jo Engreitz, Head of Growth, Hex

• Avi Aronovitz, Chief Finance Officer, BigID

• Douglas Hanna, Chief Operating Officer, Grafana 

• Michaela Lehr, VP of Finance, ActionIQ

How You Can Get Involved 💪

If you are or know any functional operators or leaders at an enterprise software company in NYC, and want to join our Work-Bench Next NYC Network to gain access to proven tactics and strategies, high-quality connections, and invites to exclusive events:

And read our first blog post from our Network on the GTM Tactics You Need To Scale Across Marketing, Sales, Product & Professional Services: