Etienne de Bruin
Founder
Etienne de Bruin is co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of 7CTOs, Inc.
A native of South Africa, Etienne graduated from Stellenbosch University and, worked in the private sector in South Africa before moving to Aachen, Germany in 1997. In 2000 he and his wife moved to San Diego, where they currently live with their three young children.
Brittany Cotton
Head of Coaching
An innovative and dynamic leader in the professional coaching community, she trains and mentors coaches as a Program Leader with Accomplishment Coaching, one of the most rigorous leadership and coach training companies in the world, and also serves private clients as an Executive and Leadership Coach.
She lives in San Diego with her dog Teddy.
Scott Graves
Product Growth Manager
Scott is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience as a CTO and, most recently, as founder of Scale Tech Consulting prior to joining the 7CTOs team.
Scott is a long-time member of 7CTOs and played an integral role in the development of the CTO Levels™. In his role as Product Growth Manager, Scott continues to develop and operationalize delivery of the CTO Levels™ while overseeing the growth of our core products and services.
Arie Anderson
Customer Service Team
Arie is a second year student at the University of North Florida located in Jacksonville, Florida. She is a hardworking student pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing. To get her foot into the field, she will help out on our customer service team.
Katie Gage
Facilitator
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.
Patty Leeper
Facilitator
Patty began her career @ NeXT Computer, a higher education start-up founded by Steve Jobs, where she oversaw 100 college students working for the company on campuses across the country.
Rachel Hart
Facilitator
Rachel is an enthusiastic and passionate person who inspires people, influences perspectives, and facilitates collaborative working environments.
Michael Margolin
Facilitator
Michael has over 25 years of instruction, consulting, and professional development experience.
L.J. Lumpkin
Facilitator
L.J. is a Coach and Licensed Therapist in California, who uses mindfulness techniques to help others cultivate a better understanding of present moment dilemmas, so that they can tap into innate problem solving skills to reduce stress and step forward into their authentic self.
L.J. is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University where he teaches Masters level Classes in Multicultural Psychology, Career Development, and Trauma in Diverse populations. L.J. brings his eclectic knowledge into communities to help cultivate a sense of empowerment and cohesion within the team. L.J is originally from Salinas CA, and graduated from Cal Poly SLO with a B.A. in psychology and University of Antioch with a M.A. in clinical psychology.
Tatsu Fushimi
Facilitator
Tatsu is an ICF certified life and business coach with a background of 17.5 years in corporate international sales.
Matthew Ferguson
Mentor
Fergie is a senior technology executive with a background as software engineer, data engineer, system architect and product manager with a track record of building successful teams and products.
Fergie resides with his family near San Diego CA and enjoys sailing, skiing and soaring depending on the season.
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.
As a Principal of Nimble Autonomy, LLC, he advises startup leaders and companies on four continents.
He lives near Seattle, Washington, with his family and dog. He enjoys travel, photography, and composing and performing music.
Linda Apsley
Mentor
Linda Apsley is a seasoned technology executive who blends a deep knowledge of technology with leadership and business skills to build innovative and transformative technology teams and solutions.
Linda was CTO at GEICO where she transformed the technology team, technology stack, and engineering practices. Linda was an early adopter in developing cloud data eco-systems to support data science and AI solutions as an engineering executive at Citi and Capital One. Linda worked at Amazon, Time, Inc., and Microsoft in various engineering roles including a role on the original architecture team for Office 365. Linda holds three patents. She has been named one of the top 100 women in technology by Technology Magazine in 2023.
Kathy Keating
Mentor/Coach
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.
Kathy has been at the helm of many visionary strategies, transformations, strategic partnerships, pivotal initiatives, turnarounds, and out of the box problem solving leading growing companies to scale quickly and effectively including at such companies
as Monster, Webroot, Autopay, and Ad Hoc.
Kathy is a CTO Advisor, and Executive Coach. She coaches CTOs and CEOs to develop the key leadership skills that are essential for success in their role, including their ability to think strategically, make effective decisions, build highly productive teams, and successfully navigate change. She assists startups and scaleups to optimize their product engineering operations so that they can deliver quickly and effectively.
Jeff Miller
Coach
Jeff is an experienced coach that supports individuals and organizations in overcoming circumstances and adversity to achieve well rounded results. His mission is to enrich clients in their personal and professional lives.
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.