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What Sets Brennan Group Apart

Most boutique retained search firms focus on one role. Brennan Group is a long-term partner that places all executive roles for our clients. As a former operator and sales executive, Kate Brennan has called on all executive roles and understands what is required to connect with them.

20 years as a top performer selling tech to C-Suite executives for hyper-growth companies such as PTC and Siebel Systems.

Kate Brennan, Founder of Brennan Group, is a former enterprise tech operator and top sales leader.
60–90% of the executives we place weren’t actively looking and don’t respond to traditional outreach. We specialize in identifying and converting passive talent through insight, conviction, and trust.
- Brennan Group works with a select number of clients each year—by design.
- Large agencies run 100+ searches, limiting their ability to recruit from top-performing companies.
- We can recruit from virtually any company in your category—no hands-off lists.
- You get 100% of Kate’s attention and expertise—not junior associates or layered teams.
In the past 14+ years, we’ve placed executives who led Strategic Exits:
- Coupa – EVP Global Sales → IPO, $1.3B
- Lifeworks – CRO North America → sold to Telus for $2.3B
- ServiceMax – EVP Sales, CMO & SVP Products → sold to GE for $915M, again for $1.5B
- Guidewire – 12-year partnership: 3 Board Directors, 8 GTM Execs, 13 Tech Execs → scaled from $300M to $1.16B
Our candidates have consistently driven IPOs, strategic acquisitions, and scale from early stage to $1B+.
We are proudly a woman-founded and operated recruiting firm.
We have interviewed, presented, and placed women for every single role: Board Director, CEO, CPO, CRO, Head of Engineering, etc.

Meet Kate Brennan

Founder, Kate Brennan founded Brennan Group to leverage her “operator” knowledge acquired as a top-performing sales leader while helping build tech start-ups working for Parametric Technology and Siebel Systems in the early days prior to them becoming mainstream.

She moved on to developing messaging and executing go-to-market strategies, hiring strong sales and marketing talent, and securing the first set of clients while consistently delivering revenue critical to start-up company success,

Kate has called on C-Level Executives her entire career and is comfortable approaching any executive at any company regardless of size or industry. She has sold to every C-Level role while running complex, strategic deals selling security, cloud platform solutions, application development, business applications, and digital marketing solutions, to name a few.

Kate spent half of her career in New York City and the other half in San Francisco. She now resides in Orange County. Kate is a graduate of the University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Business.