Brian Lese

Finance @ TwelveLabs

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Head of Finance at TwelveLabs
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Strategic Finance at Discord
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    - Second employee on Strategic Finance / Corporate FP&A team, helped scale the team from 2 to 16 - Led business partnership across Sales & Marketing / GTM, Engineering and G&A teams - Implemented Pigment and Workday Adaptive Planning - Helped facilitate multiple financing rounds totaling $600M raised - Collaborated with Infrastructure Engineering team on 2 rounds of contract negotiations with Google Cloud - Launched key initiatives & processes such as Annual Planning, Long Range Planning and Budget vs. Actuals - Oversaw company growth of 220 to 100+, revenue growth of 6x and valuation growth from $3.5B to $15B

  • Financial Analyst at LendingHome
    Nov 2018 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Associate Financial Analyst at Workday
    Aug 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Financial Analyst at Student Managed Portfolio Project
    Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 · 10 mos

    - Participated in yearlong program managing a $500,000 portion of Cal Poly’s endowment