About us
Our leadership team
Mark Mader
CEO
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With over 20 years executive leadership experience driving innovation for high-growth Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, Mark is a recognized leader in the technology community. He has been named Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology for the Pacific Northwest, and GeekWire’s CEO of the Year. Under his leadership, Smartsheet was named Washington’s Best Workplace by the Puget Sound Business Journal, and Seattle’s Next Tech Titan by GeekWire.
Passionate about entrepreneurship and tech innovation, Mark is a contributor to media outlets like Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, and Entrepreneur, and has been a featured speaker at many events, including YPO Innovation Week, and the NYSE Tech Leadership Summit. He also serves as a board member of ZoomInfo, the University of Washington Information School, one of the nation’s top information science programs, and as a member of the New York Stock Exchange’s Listed Companies Advisory Board (LCAB).
A dual-citizen of Germany and the United States, he has spent considerable time working and living abroad and applies that global perspective to the products and services that Smartsheet delivers. Mark graduated with a B.A. in Geography from Dartmouth College.
You can find Mark on Twitter @markmader
Pete Godbole
CFO
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Pete Godbole is Smartsheet’s chief financial officer and corporate treasurer. Pete is an enterprise software veteran, with more than two decades of experience as a financial leader in the industry. Prior to Smartsheet, Pete served as CFO of Hearsay Systems, Inc., CFO of GoodData Corporation, CFO of the end user computing business of VMware, Inc, and in various other finance roles for VMware, Inc., Hyperion Solutions Corporation, Autodesk Inc., and The Hewlett-Packard Company. Pete currently serves on the board of directors of Hearsay Systems, Inc. Pete received a B.S. in Business and Accounting from the University of Delhi and an MBA from Michigan State University.
Megan Hansen
CPCO
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As the Chief People and Culture Officer at Smartsheet, Megan is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing world-class talent as the company grows globally.
Megan assumed her current role after serving as the Vice President of People at Smartsheet, where she led the integration and execution of talent acquisition, total rewards, talent management, people partnerships, people operations, and diversity equity and inclusion.
Prior to joining Smartsheet in 2019, Megan was the Senior Vice President of People at MOD Pizza, responsible for creating authentic and meaningful employment experiences for the 7,000+ MOD Squad members across the U.S. Previously, Megan spent four years at Outerwall, where she served as VP of Talent Management for the Coinstar and Redbox brands, and seven years at Frog Design.
Megan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Seattle Pacific University, and a Master’s degree in Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco.
Mike Arntz
CRO
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Mike Arntz is Smartsheet’s chief revenue officer and executive vice president of worldwide field operations, responsible for the company’s sales, service, and support operations. Before joining Smartsheet, Mike served as NetSuite's senior VP of sales, Americas. Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years at Oracle Corp., most recently serving as group vice president, North America application sales, where he led and helped create the organization responsible for sales of Oracle's Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
Mike received degrees in engineering and biology from Michigan Technological University. In his non-work time he enjoys cheering on his three kids in their various sports activities, fishing, sailing, and skiing.
Jolene Marshall
CLO
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Jolene Marshall is Smartsheet’s chief legal officer and corporate secretary. She is responsible for aligning the company’s risk management approach and leads the company’s legal, privacy, compliance, and procurement functions. Jolene has over 16 years of experience working in and leading legal teams.
Prior to joining Smartsheet, she served as senior corporate counsel at SAP Concur and corporate counsel and secretary at WhitePages, Inc. Jolene holds a Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington and a JD from the University of Washington School of Law. In her free time, she enjoys travel, skiing, gardening, and reading to her kids.
Praerit Garg
CPO and EVP of Engineering
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Praerit Garg is Smartsheet's chief product officer and executive vice president of engineering. He brings more than 25 years’ experience building large-scale distributed systems and internet services, and is co-inventor on more than 25 patents. Prior to Smartsheet, he was general manager for various identity, access, and directory services for AWS; prior to that, he co-founded Symform, a distributed internet storage startup which was acquired by Quantum. He also spent 12 years at Microsoft, as part of the original team that built Active Directory and eventually built and led a 300+ person organization that delivered distributed systems management capabilities across Windows, System Center, and Visual Studio products.
Praerit is passionate about building a product and engineering culture of innovation that scales, seeks simpler solutions to hard problems, and delivers great experiences for our customers. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University. In his free time, he loves to travel with his family, experiencing different cultures and their food, art, architecture, and related human history.
Stephen Branstetter
COO
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As Smartsheet’s chief operating officer, Stephen Branstetter is responsible for driving ongoing growth and operational excellence through leadership across Strategy, Corporate Development, Business Intelligence, and Operations. Stephen most recently served as SVP of Operations leading cross functional corporate initiatives and over the last eight years established multiple functions across the company including Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support, along with providing leadership within Partner Sales and Sales Enablement.
Prior to joining Smartsheet in 2013, Stephen was General Manager at the Active Network, responsible for the vision, strategy, and growth of Active's Youth & Education market. In this role he oversaw all functional teams for this business unit and united a group of acquired companies and products into a unified go to market strategy.
Stephen holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington. In his free time, he enjoys coaching his children’s sports teams, traveling with his family, and the occasional triathlon.
Andrew Bennett
CMO
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Andrew Bennett is the chief marketing officer at Smartsheet, where he leads Smartsheet’s global marketing organization in driving awareness and demand for Smartsheet’s products and offerings. Prior to his role as CMO, Andrew served as vice president of digital marketing at Smartsheet, where he built out Smartsheet’s global demand generation function, and most recently led and grew global commercial sales and demand generation as senior vice president of commercial sales and demand generation.
Before joining Smartsheet in 2014, Andrew was vice president of professional services, Americas, at Onyx Software Corporation. A successful entrepreneur, he also founded and served as president of Deneki Outdoors, an outdoor recreation brand, where he developed a passion for inbound marketing.
Andrew received a BA in computer science from Dartmouth College and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Raised in Alaska, he enjoys skiing, fishing, biking, and being outdoors with friends and family.
You can find Andrew on Twitter @albsmartsheet
Smartsheet
Board of Directors
Geof Barker
Alissa Abdullah
Brent Frei
Elena Gomez
Mike Gregoire
Mark Mader
Matt McIlwain
Rowan Trollope
Jim White
