Meet the 7CTOs Team
Your Trusted Partners for CTO Success
Our team comprises experienced tech leaders and executive coaches who have been in your shoes.
They’ve dealt with tough decisions, sleepless nights, and the pressure to drive innovation while managing teams.
They understand the challenge of balancing technology with business strategy and the heavy responsibility of making decisions that can shape your company’s future.
Whether you’re facing scaling challenges, team dynamics, or strategic growth hurdles, our team has the experience to help you navigate those obstacles and create a clear path forward.
We’re here to support you in unlocking your full potential as an executive, ensuring both your success and your team’s.
Together, we can tackle the complexities of your role and celebrate the wins that come from leading with clarity and purpose.
Etienne de Bruin
Founder and CEO
Etienne de Bruin, the founder of 7CTOs and a seasoned Chief Technology Officer with two decades of experience, understands your challenges. He understands the balancing act of driving technical innovation with solid leadership, all while navigating growth, managing teams, and aligning technology with business objectives.
He’s been through the trenches, made the tough calls, and felt the weight of leading from the front. While driving companies to success, he noticed a significant gap—there was no real support system or clear roadmap that spoke directly to the unique hurdles a CTO faces.
7CTOs was built to give technology leaders like you the guidance, community, tools, and proven framework needed to survive, thrive, and scale.
Brittany Cotton
Head of Coaching
Brittany Cotton is an Executive and Leadership Coach who brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role, guiding C-suite executives and senior leaders towards unparalleled success.
With a dynamic background working with industry giants such as Microsoft, Live Nation, Lyft, and Nike, she has established herself as a trusted advisor and thought leader in the realm of executive coaching. Brittany’s influence and power in working with C-suites extend far beyond individual coaching sessions.
She possesses a rare ability to understand the intricate dynamics of organizational culture, strategy, and leadership, enabling her to orchestrate impactful interventions that drive meaningful change on a systemic level.
Kathy Keating
Growth Group Coaching Program Director
Kathy Keating is a mission-driven technology executive, bringing three decades of experience in HRTech, FinTech and HealthTech industries. Most of the software products she and her teams have built are still in production today.
Sally Cullerton
Chief Financial Officer
Sally graduated from Princeton University and is a financial storyteller and maven, turning financial objectives and numbers into engaging and understandable narratives for non-financial minds. Her approachable style and genuine passion for empowering others through financial literacy has materially impacted the financial strength and health of numerous small businesses over the past 20 years.Sally resides in Nashville, TN with her husband and four kids.
Nina Hamlett
Operations Administrator
Nina joins the team with a background in management and business operations along with a passion for good communication. Previously, She played a pivotal role in organizing the 0111 conference in South Africa during her tenure with 7CTOs.
Her expertise ensures smooth operations within the organization. She is based in Colorado.
Katie Gage
Facilitator/Coach
Katie works with clients to explore the human and emotional side of work.
She helps them develop resilient careers, build the confidence they need to go after big career & life goals, develop critical leadership skills, and to be the kind of leader they would follow.
Linda Apsley
Mentor
Linda Apsley is an experienced executive coach who focuses on technology leadership growth. She assists technology leaders in understanding how to grow their influence and scope while increasing the ability to innovate and build strong engineering and operational teams.
Matthew Ferguson
Mentor
Matt Ferguson has been an engineer, technology leader and CTO for 30 years. He found it to be clear that companies need help mastering their data across many silos in the business as well as incorporate external data sources. The desire to use data for gen AI and prediction has only increased this need. Matt uses his experience in Software Development, genAI, ML, Data Pipelines, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Cloud Infrastructure to bring solutions to life with customers spanning many industries and the federal government.
Kevin Goldsmith
Mentor
Kevin has been in the software industry for over 30 years as a developer, architect, engineering manager, and software executive in some of the industry’s largest companies (IBM, Adobe, Microsoft), angel and seed stage startups, and B, C, and D round startups.
Jeff Miller
Coach
Jeff is an experienced coach that supports organizations and individuals in overcoming circumstances and adversity to achieve well rounded results. His mission is to enrich clients in their personal and professional lives. Jeff is the author of the book, WINNING HABITS, Practices to Achieve Success in Every Aspect of Your Life, published in 2019. He lives in Matthews, NC with his wife and three children.
Sarah Schneider
Coach
Sarah Schneider is an executive coach and advisor to high-performers that crave more out of life and work. Her work focuses on supporting ambitious, hard on themselves leaders, in reducing the cost and challenges of leadership, so that they can be the realest version of themselves, expand their leadership, create high-trust cultures, and have more impact and fun.
From the Mouths of Successful Tech Leaders
I’ve found it so valuable to be part of a community with this level of talent and experience. It’s a phenomenal organization and my career has definitely benefited from it.
7CTOs is a wonderful platform. Since joining 7CTOs, my growth has accelerated. I’ve found all of these amazing people absolutely being role models to help move on my career.
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