Brent Pohl

GTM Sales Leader, AI and Automation at Zapier

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Leading Mid-Market Sales at Zapier, where we're helping organizations unlock the full potential of automation and AI. As businesses embrace AI, success depends on more than intelligence alone—it requires the ability to connect systems, automate workflows, and turn insights into action. Zapier enables organizations to seamlessly integrate thousands of applications, automate complex business processes, and empower teams to work more efficiently at scale. My focus is partnering with growing organizations to help them reduce operational friction, increase productivity, improve customer experiences, and accelerate business outcomes through the strategic adoption of automation and AI.

Experience

  • Mid-Market Sales Leader, AI and Automation at Zapier at Zapier
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Leading Mid-Market Sales at Zapier, where we're helping organizations unlock the full potential of automation and AI. As businesses embrace AI, success depends on more than intelligence alone—it requires the ability to connect systems, automate workflows, and turn insights into action. Zapier enables organizations to seamlessly integrate thousands of applications, automate complex business processes, and empower teams to work more efficiently at scale. My focus is partnering with growing organizations to help them reduce operational friction, increase productivity, improve customer experiences, and accelerate business outcomes through the strategic adoption of automation and AI.

  • MuleSoft (7 yrs 9 mos)
    • Regional Vice President - Mid-Market Business, Consumer and Business Services
      Feb 2023 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Responsibility for our Consumer and Business Services Mid-Market business for the Western US. My role is to enable our customers to change and innovate faster by making it easy for them to unlock data from any system to deliver critical, time-sensitive projects on time in support of their customers. MuleSoft’s market-leading Anypoint Platform coupled with an API-led approach to connectivity is enabling organizations in more than 60 countries realize an order of magnitude improvement in their overall speed and agility. Empowering our customers to compete, innovate and transform.

    • Regional Vice President - Commercial Business, Consumer and Business Services
      Feb 2022 - Jun 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    • Key Account Executive
      Feb 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Enterprise Account Executive at Kofax
    Oct 2016 - Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    I advised the world's largest Oil/Gas and Manufacturing clients on how to digitally transform through digital workflow automation. My team partnered with customers to automate high-value, information-intensive processes that require document intelligence, connected systems and process orchestration.

  • Account Executive - Platform Analytics Group at IBM
    Nov 2011 - Oct 2016 · 5 yrs

    I supported my customer's vision by unlocking the value of their data to accelerate digital initiatives. My team's support included: Making customer's data ready for an AI and hybrid multicloud world, making data simple and accessible, and organizing data to create a business-ready analytics foundation.

  • Sr. Account Executive at Zetta Inc
    2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

    I supported our customers needs by advising them on best-in-class data backup and disaster recovery solutions. By providing direct-to-cloud backup and disaster recovery without the need for local hardware.