Brad Bowery
Startup Advisor, 2 x Entrepreneur, Partnerships @ Deel, Partner @ Founders Den, MBA @ Stanford, Retired Pole Vaulter @ Brown
- Role
- Advisor at Render
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brad Bowery
Brad advises startups on various aspects of go-to-market and operations and currently leads the Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Partnerships team at Deel. Venture-backed startups include Render (Bessemer Venture Partners), Fidocure (a16z), August Home (Bessemer Venture Partners), Lily Robotics (Spark Capital), and Zipline (Sequoia Capital). He is the co-founder of 2 companies and a Partner at Founders Den, a startup incubator in San Francisco. As CEO of SRECTrade (acquired by Xpansiv), Brad built the business credited for bringing transparency and liquidity to the solar renewable energy credit markets that has fueled the growth of solar in the US since 2007. As COO of Pace Avenue, he led the implementation of a $3M grant awarded by the US Department of Energy to bring solar to underserved communities. At Zendesk, Brad established the VC partnerships program and led a global team doing partnerships, marketing, community, program experience, and customer success for venture-backed startups. The startup segment grew to a $75M ARR business and generated 14% of all new business for the $2B ARR company through 2,500 global partnerships with over startups applying per year. Brad has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, where he was captain of the track & field team and holds the school pole vault record, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served on the board of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network, the cross-campus leadership group that organizes Stanford’s E-Week. In his free time, he is an avid kitesurfer, fly-fisher, alpine skier and ice hockey player.
Experience
Advisor
Sep 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
GTM Partnerships for the intelligent cloud platform startup backed by Bessemer
Education
Brown University
Bachelor's Degree, History, Business Economics
1998 — 2003
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
2006 — 2008
Skills
- Strategic Partnerships
- Sales Operations
- Operations Management
- Marketing Strategy
- Financial Modeling
- Start-Ups
- Management
- Business Development
- Marketing
- Leadership
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
- Kitesurfing
- Business Strategy
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Human Resources
- Facilities Management
- Marketplaces
- IT Operations
- Entrepreneurship
- Full-Life Cycle Recruiting
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