Brent Clinkenbeard

About Brent Clinkenbeard

Director of Product at Knowable with over a 15 years of experience in integrations, product operations, and data analytics. I connect client systems to our Contracts Intelligence Platform and lead teams to simplify product setup, improve workflows, and deliver insights that matter. My focus is on making the complex parts of our platform feel simple and reliable—for both clients and the teams supporting them.

Experience

1. Director of Product, Integrations & Operations

   Knowable

   Dec 2020 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   Led Knowable’s integrations strategy, selecting and establishing an iPaaS partner to accelerate enterprise delivery and reduce onboarding time for clients.• Served as the primary lead for enterprise integration efforts, presenting capabilities, running solutioning sessions, and driving end-to-end development through direct engagement with Fortune 500 clients and prospects.• Created and scaled Knowable’s Product Operations team, evolving it from a nascent function into a structured, high-performing organization through clear processes, workstream ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable support systems.• Streamlined implementation and cross-functional coordination, automating workflows, standardizing handoffs, and aligning Product and R&D, Customer Success, and Client Services to reduce friction and accelerate client delivery.• Consolidated fragmented reporting into a centralized Data Management team, leveraging modern BI tooling and creating new data pipelines to streamline the delivery of operational metrics, client-facing insights, and ad hoc analyses—reducing risk and driving consistency, efficiency, and business alignment.

Education

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Bachelor of Science, Quantitative Economics, Collateral Mathematics

  2003 — 2007

• Vanderbilt University

  Master of Arts, Economics

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Workday
• Team Management
• Pareto Analysis
• Data Quality
• Cognos
• Siebel
• Vba
• Business Objects
• Visio
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Crm
• Microsoft Crm
• Ms Project
• Stata
• Financial Reporting
• Process Improvement
• Business Process Mapping
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Outsourcing
• Quality Assurance
• Microsoft Visual Studio C++
• Root Cause Analysis
• Sap
• Team Leadership
• Salesforce.com
• Production Managment
• Sas Programming
• Sales Operations
• Sharepoint
• New Business Development
• Renewals
• Channel Partners
• Microsoft Office
• Sales
• Solution Selling
• Microsoft Visio
• Data Analysis
• Quality Auditing