Joel May

Partner BridgeGate LLC

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

About

I connect high-growth, venture-backed companies with transformative revenue leaders who drive real scale. I’ve placed CROs, VPs of Sales, and GTM executives at companies backed by top investors including Lightspeed Ventures, Coatue, Greylock, Altimeter, 8VC, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Accel, and Index Ventures. Placements: Harness (Menlo, Battery, Unusual, Goldman Sachs, IVP, GV) → SVP of Americas Chainguard (Lightspeed, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, IVP, Amplify Partners) → Vice President of Americas Nominal.io (Sequoia, Lux, LSVP, Founders Fund, General Catalyst) → Head of Revenue Taktile (Index Ventures, YC, Balderton Cap, Tiger) → Chief Revenue Officer WorkOS (Lightspeed, Sapphire, Meritech, Audacious Capital, Greenoaks) → Head of Sales Grafana (Lightspeed, Coatue, Sequoia Capital) → VP, Americas | VP, Western Region | VP, Commercial Sales Parloa (Altimeter Capital, General Catalyst) → Chief Revenue Officer Hightouch (Bain Capital, ICONIQ, Amplify) → Chief Revenue Officer Virtue AI (Lightspeed) → Vice President of Sales Axiamatic (Greylock, Bessemer) → Vice President of Sales Saris AI (8VC, Audacious Capital) → SVP, Global Sales Scale AI (Index Ventures, Accel, Tiger Global, Founders Fund) → Chief Revenue Officer Moveworks (Bain Capital, LSVP | acquired by ServiceNow) → Chief Revenue Officer Redis (Bain Capital, Tiger Global) → Chief Revenue Officer Tines (Accel, Addition Capital, Lux Capital, Index) → Chief Revenue Officer Endor Labs (LSVP, Coatue, Dell Ventures, DFJ Growth) → Chief Revenue Officer Klarity.ai (Y Combinator, Tola, Scale Ventures) → Head of Revenue and GTM Veza / ServiceNow (Accel, GV, Norwest, JPMorgan Ventures) → President & COO BioRender (Y Combinator) → Chief Revenue Officer Workato (Battery, Altimeter, Redpoint, Insight, Tiger Global) → Chief Revenue Officer | SVP & GM, Enterprise ComplyAdvantage (Index Ventures, Goldman Sachs) → Chief Revenue Officer | VP, Americas Transcend (Index Ventures) → VP, Sales Navan (a16z, Index, Addition Capital, LSVP) → CRO, Commercial Segment Notion (Index, Coatue, Sequoia Capital) → Chief Revenue Officer TheyDo (Blossom Capital) → Chief Revenue Officer Solo.io (Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures) → Chief Revenue Officer MuleSoft (NEA, Lightspeed | acquired by Salesforce) → SVP, North America | VP, North America Sales Credentials Investor @ BridgeGate Capital Partners Advisor @ Workato

Experience

  • Partner at BridgeGate LLC
    Sep 1994 - Present · 31 yrs 11 mos