About us

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO of dbt Labs. dbt is an emerging leader in the data transformation space. It's used by 60,000 companies including JetBlue, HubSpot, Dunelm, and SunRun. Tristan has over two decades of experience as a data practitioner working in both large enterprises and startups. His expertise and data industry best practices have influenced thousands of subscribers and listeners weekly via his newsletter and podcast covering analytics engineering.

Brandon Sweeney is President & Chief Operating Officer at dbt Labs where he oversees all aspects of the Go-To-Market organization including revenue, customer success, partnerships and marketing. His charter is to scale customer growth and adoption across geographies and industries. Before joining dbt Labs, Brandon was Chief Revenue Officer at HashiCorp where his team included revenue, technical field operations, revenue operations, partnerships and customer success. During his tenure, HashiCorp successfully completed an IPO and grew revenue more than 4x to over $550M, counting 40% of the Fortune 500 as customers. Prior to HashiCorp, Brandon spent 16 years at VMware, where he held multiple global senior sales leadership roles including cloud sales, commercial sales, Dell sales, and worldwide partner sales, helping grow the company from $70M to over $11B. Earlier in his career, Brandon held roles at IBM and Morgan Stanley. Sweeney has built and scaled numerous high-performing teams throughout his career in enterprise technology, is an active mentor and advisor in the industry and serves on the Board of FiscalNote. He holds a BA in Government from Bowdoin College and a Master in Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Sally Jenkins is Chief Marketing Officer at dbt Labs, where she leads brand and demand strategies to differentiate dbt Labs’ leadership position in the enterprise data market, resulting in increased pipeline production. She is a highly accomplished chief marketing executive who has built successful marketing strategies and high-performance teams that deliver consistent results in complex, global B2B and B2C go-to-market environments. Sally’s extensive experience in enterprise and consumer SaaS and cloud technology spans hyper-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, including prominent global brands, such as SentinelOne, Elastic, Informatica, VMware, Symantec, Autodesk, Sun Microsystems and Apple. Her strategic marketing knowledge base has enabled complete rebrand development and execution, alongside demand generation plans that are customer- and partner-focused, business-critical, revenue-generating and supportive of brand image and market positioning across all audiences.

Mark Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at dbt Labs where he leads the engineering organization, including the development, research, and infrastructure teams, supporting mission-critical customers around the world, along with driving the future technical direction of the company. He has over three decades of experience at MongoDB, Grab, Amazon Web Services, NASA/JPL, Oracle, and other companies. In all of these roles, he has focused on building software for customers to use in their mission-critical businesses while also nurturing and growing excellent engineering cultures and teams. He began professionally programming at age 16 and is a named inventor on 15 patents. Porter has served on the boards of MongoDB and Splyt, and currently serves on the board of directors at GitLab. He holds a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech. When not at his keyboard, he spends time with his wife and 5 children.

Sarah Riley serves as Chief Financial Officer at dbt Labs where she oversees our Finance & Strategy, Accounting and Analytics teams. Prior to joining dbt Labs, Sarah lead corporate finance at Zoom, helping them scale through their 2019 IPO and the pandemic, through revenue scale of $100m to $4B+. She also previously served in corporate finance at Okta helping them scale through their IPO, and at Salesforce. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Ryan Segar is CCO comprising of all technical, customer facing teams across pre and post sale with a sole focus of customer success throughout. Over the past decade Ryan has served as an executive leader in this capacity growing startups from early stage to unicorn in organizations like Periscope Data, Sisense and now dbt Labs. Prior to that Ryan’s focus was in the public market at IBM tasked with driving innovation through product launches like Watson for Life Science and natural language insights.

Austin Stefani is a seasoned sales leader with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Before joining dbt Labs, Austin was most recently the GVP of Americas Sales at Rubrik, where over the past 6 years, he helped grow revenue to more than 5000 customers and over $500M in cloud software subscription ARR. Austin has also held various sales leadership positions at SAP and EMC. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Outside of work, Austin enjoys spending time with his wife and three children.

Meg Pittman is the Vice President of People at dbt Labs, overseeing talent acquisition, DEI, total rewards, employee experience, administration, operations, and learning & development. With over a decade of experience building and leading global people teams at companies like Blue Bottle Coffee, Stitch Fix, and Shiru, she specializes in scaling high-performing, values-driven organizations.

Meg holds a B.S. in Psychology and a Master’s in Organizational Development and Systems Theory. She is passionate about fostering inclusive workplace cultures and developing strategies that empower teams to excel.

She resides just outside of Park City, Utah and when not working or skiing, is wrapped up in being a proud dog mom and the world's best aunt.

As a career sales and channel leader, Shawn has extensive experience transforming GTM strategies and operating models to execute at scale across partner routes to market. He consistently builds high performing teams with operational accountability to deliver on sales & transformational goals.

Shawn has held multiple executive leadership roles with OneTrust, Appian, VMware & Microsoft. At OneTrust, Shawn led the Global Partner Ecosystem building partner capability, accelerating ACV growth & raising customer satisfaction through OneTrust partners. At Appian & VMware, Shawn was responsible for executing global partner ecosystem transformations to expand partner capability from transactional to end-to-end customer success. In addition, Shawn held multiple US partner sales leadership positions at Microsoft.

Shawn resides in Snoqualmie, Washington with his wife (Hope) and son (Luca).

Drew Banin is the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer at dbt Labs, a Philadelphia startup pioneering the practice of modern analytics engineering. dbt is used by over 50,000 companies every week to organize, catalog, and distill knowledge in their data warehouses. Drew works with open source maintainers, contributors, and users to build dbt and strike fear in the hearts of database optimizers.

Connor McArthur is the co-founder of dbt Labs. Connor has over a decade of experience as an individual contributor and senior engineering leader building enterprise-ready data transformation tools. Prior to founding dbt Labs, he worked as a software engineer and engineering manager developing product, platform, and infrastructure at RJMetrics. He previously developed the open source VU-LEGO real time target enabling students without coding backgrounds to develop complex robotics systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Villanova University, and resides in Camden County, NJ.